Cardas Photography {PhotoBlog}

Go big!! 30" x 40" Stretched Canvas

I love love love when clients go beyond the typical print and canvas sizes. Kristy emailed me asking to use the studio credit from her wedding on a BIG canvas. I said "How big?" and she replied "It's one giant wall!" So this is where we ended up!

 

(This is hanging in my house - I received the canvas first to inspect for quality and sent it along to Kristy and John. I can't wait to see where they have it at their house!)

For comparison the canvas to the right is 16" x 20"

 

I LOVE that Kristy and John will have this photo from their wedding day as a permanent fixture in their home. I tell my clients to use their studio credit for something special. Because they get their images on disk, they can print their own regular prints to their hearts content. I recommend getting something special - something "professional grade" from me - whether that's a coffee table album, stretched canvas or framed collection, let me create something that will last the test of time.

Canvas, Canvas Canvas!

Now that the holidays have past - I wanted to share a few of the happy deliveries I got to make to my wonderful clients!

Craig and Jessie chose one of my favorite shots from their wedding to hang in their home:

(24" x 36")

Kari and Kyler chose one from their engagement session and one from their wedding:

(20"x30")

(20"x30")

Ashley chose one of my favorites from her Senior Photo session in Bandon:

(11"x16")

And Sheila's mom gave the couple a wedding gift of a 24"x36" canvas of an image from their Engagement session to remind Morgan of home since his move to Tennessee!

I so love the look of stretched canvas!  It's a fun way to make a bold statement with your memories!

Things are getting BIG around here!

One of my goals for this year is to show my photographs in the size I would have them displayed in my own home.  Up until now - besides a 30"x36" frame filled with various 4"x6" prints, I haven't had anything smaller than 12" x 18" of my own personal pictures hanging in my home.  I walk by this picture of my Wienerdogs every day and it makes me happy. 

I want the photographs I take for you to make you happy every time you pass them in the hall - and you might be surprised how little that 4x6 or even 8x10 looks once you get it in a frame and put it up on the wall!  So - to demonstrate my point - I received two of my favorite images from 2007 today as 20" x 30" stretched canvases.  You aren't going to believe me - but I would totally get them bigger - I thought 20" x 30" would be so big even I wouldn't believe it - but no - my next one will be a 40" x 60" :)

Here is a quick example:  This is Desiree and Jeremy (this photograph makes me laugh because I basically fell on my face  about 2 minutes after I took the shot) The Canvas is 30" across and 20" tall - and about 1.5" thick - it is hanging above my fireplace in my living room - I have put a regular 4x6 print next to it so you can see the scale:

See what I mean about the fact that it can totally be bigger? Here is a shot from the side so you can see how the image wraps around the frame:

And my favorite non-wedding shot:

So I encourage you to measure your walls!!  And fill the empty space with images that make you smile, inside and out, every time you walk by them!