After spending what feels like half a lifetime on decorating our hallway, stairs and top landing area, I’m considering putting up some of my own bird photos.
I tend to do non-regular crops of my photos, so I suspect that standard photo printing sizes won’t be an option for me. I’m also considering a matte or possibly satin finish on the prints.
My question is: Has anyone had any of their photos printed for framing, and if so, does anyone have any recommendations of a good company for doing this?
There’s a large variety online, but I thought it would maybe be worthwhile asking for first hand experiences before plucking one from the huge list out there. :-)
Hi Paul, I've never had photos good enough like yours to print for the wall LOL so can't advise you based on a service I've used but I've had a bit of a search and found this place called Digitalab which seems to have professional standard printing.
Paul A said:I’ll need a Gull, and Mrs A loves Herons. Stonechats are great, but so are Wheatears, and also Reed Buntings. Ducks in flight would be nice and I do like a Corvid.!! Fulmars are great too, and I really like Dunlins…..and Sanderling. Garden birds would be nice, maybe a Robin, but Blackbirds are great too … and Blue Tits. Oystercatchers are really striking in flight, but so is a Treecreeper on a tree trunk … or maybe a Dipper on a rock. Big flocks of Geese are fantastic too…. oh … or Swans in flight…… or …. !! :-/
LOL Paul, you are going to need a couple of extensions to give you more wall space !! Good luck choosing as you have a fantastic collection of superb photos to select from.
Unknown said:LOL Paul, you are going to need a couple of extensions to give you more wall space !
I was assuming he must live in a stately home with a hall & stairs that big!
The only (not done at home) printing I've done is with the big names - Vistaprint for some calendars, I think Truprint for some seabirds on canvas (surprisingly effective). They'd be standard sizes though. If you want something non-standard, you might have to bulk out the image to print, then cut away the bit you don't want. I wouldn't actually worry about framing as part of the same service - you can get frames online at any size and popping the pic into a frame is the simplest of tasks
Years ago, a friend of mine who was a professional photographer used a company in Coventry called COLAB, which I have used on a couple of occasions during the late 80's - very early 90's to process and develop film and been pleased with the results. The film, 35mm, ranged from ISO64 to 1600 and a mix of prints and transparencies depending on what I was shooting at the time.
COLAB, it self has bitten the dust, but the premises are now under the ownership of One Vision Imaging. I've never used them, so I can't comment on today's quality, but they seem to be a national company, and could have a premise not far from you.