First my son and I debated in which order the prints should be hung. After trying all the variations we decided on this:<\/p>\n
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\nCommon Ninebark, Common Blanketflower and Flax wildflowers.<\/I>
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The print location is above three sets of louvered window shutters and we used a self-leveling laser level<\/a> which projects a pair of 90 degree laser light lines on the wall, making alignment with the center of each pair of shutters a simple matter:<\/p>\n As this location has a 19′ ceiling and we wanted the prints approximately half way up a very tall ladder was called for. Not much fun, I confess.<\/p>\n Here is the result after much struggling with this monster ladder, not to mention moving furniture around to accommodate it.<\/p>\n A lot of work, with much fun finding the wildflowers in my community and photographing them, followed by hours of mirthless, hard labor to complete the project.<\/p>\n This will convey a sense of the enlargement ratio. I am holding the original of the Common Blanketflower in my right hand:<\/p>\n Not a lot of fun. Having mounted and framed the three 24″ x 36″ prints for my living room it came time to hang them. The post production time for printing, mounting, framing and hanging is a multiple of the time required to take and process the images, but there are no short cuts. Scrupulous … Continue reading Hanging huge prints<\/span>
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\nLaser level on the Linhof tripod.
\nA very tall ladder is involved.<\/I>
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\nCommon Ninebark, Common Blanketflower and Flax wildflowers.<\/I>
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\nHolding the original and the print.<\/I>
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