Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland
Luckily the one day I headed to the top of Bettmerhorn with my panoramic photography gear during our vacation the weather cooperated. I took this image along a hiking trail not too far from the Bettmerhorn lift station. In this photograph you are seeing about 7 miles of the glacier.
This was such a beautiful view that I added Aletsch to my Swiss Travel Destinations interactive map.
I also ordered a professional print of a panoramic image for the first time. I order this photograph from ezprints.com which is one of the few sights that will print panoramic images to custom lengths. My final print turned out to be 12″x 33″ (30cm x 83cm). I size looks really good, however I think I need to adjust the colors a bit or calibrate my monitor because the print looks a little bit too dark as compared to my monitor.
M'dame Jo
August 14, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Hard copies are always darker, or at least less saturated that the soft copy. It’s the good old additive (RGB monitor) vs. subtractive (CMYK print) colors. You can try to cheat by making your image a bit lighter before sending it to the printer, but the results can vary. Plus your blue is too saturated to be printed as it looks on a screen. This explains the issue quite well: http://marvin.mrtoads.com/rgb_vs_cmyk.html
Hope that helps.