On Aug 31, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Martin Orpen <martin@idea-digital.com> wrote:
Artwork for me includes stuff like etchings, engravings, woodcut and linocut etc.
Ah -- yes, that would have its own peculiar requirements. Paintings (and sculptures), not so much. Still, it might be worth taking a step back and examining the actual output requirements. If it's going to be printed at reduced size in a four-color book or magazine, a 300 ppi photograph may still be more than adequate so long as the moiré doesn't show up in the print. Pixel peeping reveals an amazing panoply of sins that don't actually appear on paper. I recently made a book of abstract wood sculptures that included some fold-out pages of 1:1 reproductions of works up to 20" x 70". The highlight recovery and some other post-processing left some gnarly edge artifacts when viewed at 100% pixels, but those literally don't show up at all in the prints. I could have cleaned them up, but it would have been an utter waste, as nobody other than me will ever see them. ...and, again, this is from a two-foot-by-seven-foot panorama shot with a 5DIII, printed actual size. It was a single row of, I think, four exposures. b&