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How to get good quality large prints I really need help. I am new to doing environmental shots. I am branching out now to do family beach portraits in addition to my school and preschool business, which is so different, as you all know. My parents never order big prints like gallery wraps, and the lighting is so perfect in schools because it is all controlled by studio lighting. Now I am at the beach in the fog, the mucky, hot, humid weather etc, with varying lighting issues, and more importantly-people ordering these HUGE gallery wraps and prints. I thought that I was doing all of the right things, such as buying a 10.2MP camera, great flash, memorized the manual, did all of my custom settings, etc. Now for the BIG problem. I am an idiot where cropping and image resizing is concerned. If I take a picture which is always going to be the standard 300dpi @ 12.9 by 8.6 inches in its raw jpeg form right out of the camera, shouldn't I be able to have the lab make me huge prints like 16x20 or 20x24 from an image taken at "large fine jpeg"? On a 10.2 MP camera, no less? Why is it so grainy when I look at it at 100% @ size 16x20? (I know that the dpi gets reduced to half of the 300 in its original size as you blow up a photo, but gosh, how do people end up with huge 30x40's that look great?) Please help me-I am pouring through my Photoshop CS2 manual now, trying to get this resizing issue resolved because I have a client ready to order 3 of the 16x20 gallery wraps, and I don't want him owning a noisy, grainy print. I will pay the $75 for retouching out of my pocket this time, but how should I be submitting these images to get consistent sharp prints on large sized wall hangings? I also have noticed that by filling up my frame I do not leave enough room for this extra 3 inches I have to save for the gallery wrap. If I submit it just as I shot it without cropping, it looks great. But once I try to crop to,say, a 22x26 for the gallery wrap I cut off people at the end of the image. Oh, also, since I shoot a lot of fast-moving children and huge family groups sometimes, I am not using a tripod. That could be my problem as well. Could it be also my 5.6-8 F stop settings? Maybe I need to shoot sharper?
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