Printing infrared black and white images on canvas is exciting, but doing my first IR triptych was a blast. Several extra items need to be taken into consideration when planning a triptych. First – is the image resolution high enough to print to this larger size? Second – will the composition work after being split into multiple panels?
If you can get past the first two steps, then you need to layout the panels. Each panel needs to be precisely sized both in the computer and when making the wood frames. These are “gallery wrapped” stretched canvases, which means you need extra image area to wrap around to the back of the wood stretcher frame. Each panel “borrows” image from it’s adjacent panel (see the image below). Approximately 2 inches of overlap occurs in each panel. Once all finished, the three panels can be butted together to create one complete image. However, I prefer to space them about 1 inch apart to reveal the edges and see the dimension of the panels together. Let me know if you have any questions about putting these together.
Technical Info: ”Enchanted Bluff” (48″ wide x 36″h triptych) was shot with a dedicated, converted, infrared Nikon D300 set to; 200 ISO, f/8, 1/80 second. Multiple images were captured and stitched together in Photoshop CS3 to created the full scene.
by Kent Weakley
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