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My First Canvas from Artistic Photo Canvas

Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by Terry Reinert in Photography, Reviews

I’ve always wanted to get some of my work printed on canvas to hang up around the house or in my office but I never really put a whole lot of effort into researching it and finding a good place to print it for me. Printing on canvas has been around for quite a few years now so it really doesn’t have that “shiny new toy” allure to it. Well, it didn’t anyway until I started seeing a lot of blog posts from Scott Kelby and other NAPP educators about the canvas products they had made through Artistic Photo Canvas. This got me back to thinking about having some made but I was still on the fence. I wasn’t sure if it was really going to be worth the cost and, to be honest, I really wasn’t sure if there was any validity to all the hype. A few months ago I found myself hanging out with my buddy RC and I knew he had a few canvas made of his images so I asked him for his honest opinion. Apparently he was the right person to ask because as soon as we got to his house we went from room to room looking at all the ones he had hanging on the walls. I can describe my reaction in one simple word… sold! Seeing photos of the canvas online did not do them justice at all. Being able to see and hold them in my own hands is what did it for me. The hype is fully justified!

My canvas from APC sitting on a black couch.

A week later I found myself editing a photo that I took of the Eau Gallie Causeway at night that I wanted to turn into a pano. The only catch was I had no idea what the standard sizes for a pano were. I thought back to RC’s pano of the NYC skyline that he had printed on canvas and I knew I had to have this one printed on canvas too. So I fired up APC’s website and looked to see what dimensions they could do and cropped my image specifically to fit their standards. Now this is where the story gets a little humorous… about the same time all of this is going on my wife and I were trying to pick new colors to paint the walls of our house. We knew we wanted color but we weren’t sure exactly which colors. So I joked that we should pick colors that will go well with the pano since it was going to be the largest art piece in our living room and she agreed. I passed this story on to Lew Bedell, the President of Artistic Photo Canvas, and he got a kick out of it too. I’m not 100% positive but I think it was the first time he heard of someone cropping an image and painting their wall based specifically on specifications from APC.

When I started this post I was going to make it a review of APC’s product but decided instead to tell the story behind my first canvas. I am including a few photos below of the canvas frame and a corner of the canvas. I wanted to show the quality of workmanship that APC puts into their product. The product is solid… I am confident that if this canvas gets knocked off the wall that it will survive without any issues. I am not going to test that theory… but I have confidence based on how sturdy the frame feels when I hold it.

So now you know the story behind my first canvas from APC. I am extremely happy with the quality of service from APC and also the quality of their canvas product. I even had the opportunity to meet some of the APC crew at Photoshop World in Las Vegas and they are a great group of people. If you have been thinking about having one of your images printed on canvas, go visit their website and get them started on it. You will not be disappointed.

If you would like an autographed limited edition (numbered) canvas as seen above, follow this link. But you cannot have #1… it is for my wall and my wall only.

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