Murals
UW Health at The American Center, Madison, WI 10' x 20'
This view of the Nicolet Forest is not an ordinary photograph that's been enlarged to fill a larger space. This original life-size digital image capture is printed at full gallery resolution, as shown here, without enlargement. As a result, this installation is critically sharp at any viewing distance.
Murals Gallery
Digital Image Capture
This Hyde's Mill print from the Murals Gallery, below, remains critically sharp up to 8' x 20'. Similarly, all images in this gallery specify digital image capture dimensions for full resolution.
The first and most essential step in capturing images that recreate an environment is shooting a scene with enough detail to provide a realistic model that allows multiple operations to come later in creating the final result.
I use a variety of techniques in creating large-scale digital images. With a combination of separate photographs, as shown above, I can produce a digital capture of any desired resolution.
Stave Church, Washington Island, Wisconsin. 6' x 18' digital image capture without enlargement.
In this final result, 1760 MP of image data has been transformed into a single image that can be mounted and displayed. In addition to large-scale image capture, several other parameters are carefully controlled to preserve the experience when initially viewing this scene.
