Climb every mountain!

[petercharlesfagg]

No I'm not going to burst into song!

I have been searching for a photographic backscene that includes real mountains but can only find them in the USA and the sheer costs are outside my means.

Anyone any ideas?

Regards Peter.

[Agrippa]

Hello Peter

What size of backscene are you talking about and what mountain ranges? One way is to download a mountain
scene from the net and have it printed poster size then mount it on board presumably to be fairly rigid at
the back of your layout. Cost would not be too great,  There might also be panorama type photos, I've seen panoramas of the Alps, shape better suited to a backscene. Not sure about copyright matters.
The hills are alive!

Cheers

Allan

[Trev]

There are a large number of online photo libraries that you can search for a suitable image and the cost of buying a large version isn't very expensive - from about $1  (depending on size)
Some of the sites I use for my publishing business are:-

http://www.bigstockphoto.com
http://depositphotos.com/
http://www.123rf.com/

[EtchedPixels]

Look for stuff which is creative commons or public domain. Lots around and if not I doubt many people will say no if you ask.

Or you could paint one ?

[petercharlesfagg]

Look for stuff which is creative commons or public domain. Lots around and if not I doubt many people will say no if you ask.

Or you could paint one ?

Thanks Alan, my painting is confined to emulsion or similar on walls!  Detailed atmospheric mountains might wind up as streaky bacon!

Peter.

[petercharlesfagg]

There are a large number of online photo libraries that you can search for a suitable image and the cost of buying a large version isn't very expensive - from about $1  (depending on size)
Some of the sites I use for my publishing business are:-

http://www.bigstockphoto.com
http://depositphotos.com/
http://www.123rf.com/

Thankyou, the 123rf looks promising!

Peter.

[petercharlesfagg]

Hello Peter

What size of backscene are you talking about and what mountain ranges? One way is to download a mountain
scene from the net and have it printed poster size then mount it on board presumably to be fairly rigid at
the back of your layout. Cost would not be too great,  There might also be panorama type photos, I've seen panoramas of the Alps, shape better suited to a backscene. Not sure about copyright matters.
The hills are alive!

Cheers

Allan

Allan, thankyou very much.

The area would be 2 metres by 50 Cm high.  The mountain is not specific just a mountainous region, fir trees and the like!  I would like to disguise my terrible efforts of tunnel portals with dense trees of the conifer type!

I would stick it to the wall, permanent-like!

Regards, Peter.

[Michael Shillabeer]

Hello Peter

You can use my photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelshillabeer/sets/72157626119190212/ if you like!

I can send you send you jpegs. Or even the original 35mm prints to copy.

Best regards
Michael

[d-a-n]

I can send you send you jpegs if you like. Or even the original 35mm prints to copy.

Taken with a proper camera (not that I'm biased in anyway Michael...)

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[petercharlesfagg]

Hello Peter

You can use my photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelshillabeer/sets/72157626119190212/ if you like!

I can send you send you jpegs if you like. Or even the original 35mm prints to copy.

Best regards
Michael

Michael thankyou very much for the opportunity, I really like the image where there are 2 peaks on each side of the image.

Now if someone can tell me how to stretch it to 2.5 metres by 40 Cm in height and THEN print it off so I can stick it on the wall I would be most appreciative!

Regards Peter.

[petercharlesfagg]

I can send you send you jpegs if you like. Or even the original 35mm prints to copy.

Taken with a proper camera (not that I'm biased in anyway Michael...)

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Or perhaps I should use my Nikon SLR equipment and process the prints in my darkroom?

[d-a-n]

I reckon if you could get the required mountain and shoot Velvia 50, you would have enough resolution to print to your required size without a hitch from a very high resolution scan of the transparency using your Nikon stuff.
I'm amazed at what can come out of my Canon F1 with Velvia compared to even the output of my full frame DSLR.

[Mr Sprue]

Hi Peter, you probably have already tried this but I googled "Panoramic mountain backscenes" and selected "Images" and the page displayed some really nice pictures.

For example this one took my eye! http://syque.com/ds/pix/summer_hols_07/panoramas_slideshow/slideshow.php?directory=.&currentPic=10

[Newportnobby]

Thanks for the memories, d-a-n
I had one of those passed down to me by my Dad when he got a Cosina (which I also ended up with)

[Dorsetmike]

Number 3 of this lot has some rugged hills

http://windward.f1p.co.uk/download/pages/Backscenes.html

I've used these and managed to do some editing of them to improve joins, I print them out at 36" x 8.5" on banner paper, you can also get sky only, also printing out same size, with a bit of editing in a photo application it should be possible to makea reasonable match, the sky sheets I have repeat evry 4th sheet, i.e. every 12'.

Do you need snowy mountains, rocky mountainsa or tree covered mountains?

Gaugemaster do some by Vollmer, but prices are close o £30 each, look rather Swiss Alpine.

http://www.gaugemaster.com/search_results.asp?searchstring=backscenes+&searchtitle=search%20results%20%20%3E%20backscenes&andor=view&method=kws_gauge&style=main&strtype=n&currentpage=3#12