Making Chicken Salad...

[Jay Beckman]

Ever since I did the Air to Air Workshop and was exposed to a little bit of Moose Peterson's style, I've been wanting to design some "Fine Art" presentation pieces and offer them through Crosswind Images.

Something like you'd see in the Greenwhich Workshop catalog by Robert Taylor or Keith Ferris.
More artistic and less like something you'd just toss into a $5 boarder-less poster frame from Michaels and slap on the wall.





I also have created one using an A-10 gun run from Gila Bend called "In Hot" and another from the P-40 Shark's Mouth from Valle that was POTM a while back called "Frenzy"

Do you find this "gallery" style appealing or am I totally in the weeds here?  Feedback, Please!?  Framing? Font? Differences in text opacity? Keystroke around the image?  It's all fair game...  

FWIW, I ran a 12x18 print of "Thunder On The Mountain" and I have it in a black matte and I think it looks pretty sharp!
(Watermark is obviously not present in the finished pieces.  Also, it looks as if the text suffers here due to jpg compression.)

[Stephen Marshall]

I'd certainly hang it up on my wall.  I'm personally a fan of that type of aviation photography so I may be biased. I often see the same photos taken in the same way and presented in the same manner as everything else. It's nice to see something a bit different.

I think the text looks great. As far as the jpg compression issue, I'd just save it as a TIFF. Any good print shop will be able to handle it and since it doesn't compress the photo file, there should be no distortion to the text.

[Jay Beckman]

Thanks Stephen...

There's "softening" here because I squished a 9000x6000 300Mb image down to 1024X @ 300Kb ...!