Buying Panoramic Pictures

Note: This is the old price page. Now most photos have a price link that helps you calculate the price for particular photo, but not all pages have yet been converted, so some link here.

I offer most of these panoramas for sale at a price of $11 per square foot, plus shippng. Above 10 square feet it's just $7/ft² extra. There is a minimum order of $25 though you can do more than one image. They can also be licenced for commercial use at reasonable rates.

These panoramas look vastly better printed at full resolution than what you see on the web. For any picture, be sure to try the "slice at full resolution" link to get an idea of what you will see in your printed copy.

Panoramas can be printed in just about any size, up to about 40 feet long, though most will be of limited close-up sharpness at that size.

Unless you cut out part of the photo, the ratio of length and width must remain fixed. Make it taller and it gets wider. Because many of these have high ratios, you must get them long to get a decent height. Going below 6" high can be done but is pretty short.

If you really need to change the aspect ratio, I can crop the image, presumably on the left or the right. Tell me what portion of the image you want to cut away to fit your needs. Probably best to take a few inches more than you need and then hand cut yourself to get the exact crop you want. A $10 fee will be added for custom crops.

When a picture is printed it will be at a given DPI/PPI. Pictures at 200DPI and higher will look very sharp even up close. Pictures at 150DPI will look quite sharp, even from just a few inches away. Pictures under 100DPI will appear unsharp very close but will still look excellent when viewed from a typical viewing distance.

Printing a picture so small as to make it more than 300 DPI is wasting resolution. The printer and your eye are not good enough to make the most of this resolution. Of course it doesn't hurt.

I generally print on "satin" (semi-gloss) paper. I don't stock other papers but can order them. You get more contrast on a glossy print but more reflections. (See note on my outside printer.)

Prints are done on rolls that are 8", 13", 16" and 24" high, so there will be margins on all sides.

Shipping is typically $7 in the USA for smaller prints, and can be larger on particularly large prints.

Framing

It can be difficult and expensive to frame large panoramas. It is difficult to get matte boards for panoramas wider than 56" or so, indeed at many shops, the widest boards are 40". Larger panoramas must be mounted unmatted, or with two half-mattes that are joined.

Frames in general are normally not much longer than 96" though wood mouldings for custom work can be found up to 16' long.

A good and inexpensive framing can be done by placing a picture between two sheets of plexiglass which are bound with clips or plexi-bolts. Again these are limited to 96" in most cases.

Outside USA

Because shipping overseas can take time, if you are in a hurry, You may be able to find a printing house near your own location which allows me to upload the files to them for printing and local pickup by you. I'll work out a price to you based on the printing cost their and a margin for me. This will save you shipping, though the local print house will probably be more expensive. Their quality is for you to evaluate. For smaller prints, photo printing services may also be suitable. Call the company and ask if they can print photo quality inkjet, lightjet or similar at the size you need from an uploaded file, and how much they charge.

Licencing cost to you will be about $70 per square meter, plus whatever the printing house charges (vs. the $107 per square meter I charge for printing it for you.)

Typically I don't provide the full-res files to random folks, sorry.

Calculating your size and price

(Normally there is a link on every photo with a suggested size and price. Clicking that gets a calculator. If you got here instead that page is not yet converted.)

Go back to the picture you want and note the dimensions, in pixels for the full panorama. For example it will say "The full panorama is 15023 x 2890" and will give a suggested size and DPI value. You work out how large you want the image, either as a width or height. Say you decide you want the picture 6 feet (72 inches) long. Multiply 72 times pixel-height divided by pixel-width. Here, we have 72 * 2890 / 15023 or 13.85 inches. Next multiply the two dimensions to get square inches and divide by 144 to get square feet: 72 * 13.85 / 144 is 6.925 square feet, so the picture will be $69.25 to print, plus shipping and tube, which is usually about $7 by priority mail.

You may want to work out your DPI (more properly, PPI) based on the rules laid out above.

Contact Me

Send E-mail to btm at templetons.com to arrange purchase of a panorama or other still photos. You can also contact me for other commercial uses (billboards, magazines, web sites.) You may use the web resolution images for multi-monitor screen wallpaper free of charge.

Tell me:

• Which photo you want: (File name or URL is best.)
• What size you want it. If you are not going to crop the ends off the image, the width and height must be in the same ratio as the photo on the web site. Ie. if a photo is suggseted as 6' by 1', you can make it 12' by 2', but you can't make it 6' by 1' without chopping off the ends.
• Your address and other details. I'll send you a price and paypal instructions.

You may NOT inline images from my web server without permission. If you do so and I notice the bandwidth, you may suddenly find the image replaced one day with something ruder. If you want to use an image on your web site, or licence one for commercial use, contact me.