Brad Templeton's Photography
How to Get or Buy the Panoramic Images

How to Get or Buy the Panoramic Images

(And general advice on framing and printing large panoramics.)

All the images are Copyright © 1998-2008 by Brad Templeton. However, for the images in the "rest of" category, you can print them without charge for personal use. You'll need a printer that can do panoramics. Most Epson printers will print to 44" long if you have long paper. You can get long paper from Red River Papers and others.

You can also get a house like EZPrints to output the picture. This is what I recommend, and what I use for my own walls. The price is very good and the quality quite decent up to around 250 pixels/inch. You can also get prints done on a local house that has a printer such as the LightJet or Lambda. Output quality is excellent but "limited" to 96 inches.

Another good place is Big Photo Help which prints on a DesignJet 5000. They have a really good price of $3.75 per square foot and print at just about any size, though you will pay about $5/sq foot (same as EZPrints) if you want to go longer than 72"

The Designjet 5000 is not quite as good as the EZP photographic process but it is still quite good.

To get the full resolution image, send me E-mail to me at photo@templetons.com. Please note you will receive an anti-spam challenge when you mail this address. Just send any reply and the mail is forwarded.

Quality Images

The images on the "best of" pages require a payment.

I can get any image printed for you by bigphotohelp, and in fact will shortly have a site where you can order online. Generally I collect a royalty equal to the printing cost. (I figure I should make as much off the shot as the printer does!)

To purchase an image send E-mail to photo@templetons.com. See the note above about the spam filter.

Please note that for Burning Man images you must also make a donation to the Black Rock Arts Foundation to support Burning Man related art. I'll let you know the minimum donation, but you are of course encouraged to donate as much as you can afford. Donations to my favourite charity, the Electronic Frontier Foundation are also encouraged but not required.

Panorama Framing

If you print them big, framing a panorama can be one of the hardest tasks. Local framing shops can do it, but it often costs quite a bit.

I've been impressed with the value at American Frame. They send frames via UPS in custom sizes, and the prices are less than half, sometimes less than 1/4 of the price at the storefront custom framing shops. I have framed most of my own images using their frames. It's a bit more work to do it yourself, but the savings are tremendous. I've found their economy metal frame "Radius Plus" to look great.

If you do want to frame one of my pictures, I get a small cut of the frame price if you use the link above. However, I picked this site because I use them myself, not for the cut.

Do make sure you have a good way to mount the picture on the backing board. Either their sticky backing board, or spray-on photo adhesive with a rubber roller.

If you want them to make the frame for you with plexi, mat board and backing foamcore, it's limited to a total of length + width <= 70 inches, with a surcharge over 54 inches.

You can get frames up to 8 feet long, but then you will have to buy plexi and backing board at a local place like TAP plastics, which can also go up to 8 feet long. These frames need some strengthening.