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07/22/2007 09:00:06 AM · #1 |
| I need some assistance in displaying a photo I took while in Iraq. I have created a panoramic photo which I have had printed. The photo is 8.5 X 20 feet long...yep, 20 feet long. I know that getting this sucker framed is going to be out of the question unless I take out a loan, so my question is do you have any ideas for displaying and or mounting this photo some how. |
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07/22/2007 09:11:48 AM · #2 |
Got a saw? Get some nice wood and frame it yourself. Then if needed you can buy some plexiglass or real glass.
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07/22/2007 09:13:45 AM · #3 |
that's a HUGE picture. try using it as wallpaper :D
but seriously, good luck with that. i would love to see the finished product. i bet it's amazing |
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07/22/2007 09:40:29 AM · #4 |
| Covering it (could use black foam board behind) is gonna be a bear. If you don't cover the front, you can use pieces of black foam board behind. Could even put at intervals so there are slight gaps between. (Put them at varying heights?) I am worthless with help, lol. See how much plexiglass is at one of the "box" harware stores. Heck Glass may even be cheaper. |
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07/22/2007 09:43:48 AM · #5 |
| I would make the frame myself... much cheaper. If you have a router and a saw you could quickly make up a really nice frame, even coat it yourself so you have a choice of colour. |
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07/22/2007 10:23:53 AM · #6 |
If you live in a house that has a bare wall that is long enough and tall enough to mount this, then you have enough money to be able to aford having it framed. LOL!
Assuming you have a wall big enough to mount it (unless you are going to put it on two walls and bend it for the corner), had you planed it a bit better and only made it 8' wide, you would have saved yourself a lot of work. Then you could have used standard 4x8' plywood or masonite to make a backboard. Since it's 8.5' wide, you can take two 8' panels and piece them together. Or you can locate a lumber supply shot that can get in a 10' long panel and cut them to size. Then get some hardwood boards and route out cut out a groove on one edge and put it as a frame all around it.
Or call a couple of billboard companies and ask how they would mount it. In any event, it's going to be a bear to mount and not cheap either... unless you do just glue it to the wall. I've seen that done also.
Mike
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07/22/2007 10:41:51 AM · #7 |
Good Ideas and suggestions...Thank you all...I am going to have it mounted at work. we have long hallways with additional Marine Corps Photos. Mike, had I thought it through better prior to printing, I would have done like you suggested....but at the price I paid to have it printed the first time, I dont see myself printing it again..lol
Thanks for the help! |
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07/22/2007 10:51:44 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by PleasantDreams:
Good Ideas and suggestions...Thank you all...I am going to have it mounted at work. we have long hallways with additional Marine Corps Photos. Mike, had I thought it through better prior to printing, I would have done like you suggested....but at the price I paid to have it printed the first time, I dont see myself printing it again..lol
Thanks for the help! |
LOL! I bet the cost of printing that was a bunch in itself. I figured suggesting you cut off a half foot from the top or bottom might not fly too well. :D
Unless you have a very smooth wall or don't mind the wall texture showing through, getting a smooth backing that will last is the hard part. You might think about putting a clear coat polyurethan (sp?) or some other type of UV and dirt protection coating on it after you get it mounted. The biggest I've ever done was 8'x10' and those were done in 4' wide sections and pasted back together on the wall. That was back in the darkroom days where we used 4x4 posts with plastic laid over them to hold the chemicals and we used mops to slosh it around to make sure the paper developed correctly. Lot of work but lots of fun doing something that big.
Mike
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