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I Got My First Billboard!

dgwphotography Jul 06 2007 10:45 AM

Every year, my town hosts the Oyster Festival, and this year, they are expanding it to Friday night. One of the members of the Chamber of commerce found one of my shots of the harbor at night, and contacted me. Basically, they are going to use it for advertising, sending out post cards, and using it for a billboard on Rte 1.

metirish Jul 06 2007 10:48 AM

Seriously that's a brilliant picture,the moon and the color of the sky set it apart..

Batty31 Jul 06 2007 11:54 AM

Wow! What a stunning picture. Congrats! I love the colors reflecting in the water.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 06 2007 12:38 PM

Very nice! I used to wonder how they made billboard size photos. I imagined a gigantic sheet of photographic paper, and an enlarger where the light source is waaaay far away from the paper. I STILL don't know how they do it, but I know they don't use the giant enlarger.

Nymr83 Jul 06 2007 12:42 PM

how they used to do it i have no idea, but with computers and ahigh resolution picture its fairly easy these days.

smg58 Jul 06 2007 01:04 PM

Great picture.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 06 2007 01:16 PM

That's as good as any of the best Boathouse Row pictures I've ever seen: And that's been photographed a billion times.

Willets Point Jul 06 2007 02:19 PM

Congrats! Great photo work as always. By the way did anyone notice that the I in Iubitul looks like an I and not an l? (Yes, I'm an asshole).

metirish Jul 06 2007 02:31 PM

[quote="Willets Point":2ius0wt9]Congrats! Great photo work as always. By the way did anyone notice that the I in Iubitul looks like an I and not an l? (Yes, I'm an asshole).[/quote:2ius0wt9] By my count this is the third thread where the I has been mentioned....I think Iubitul is wondering what all the fuss is about...

Willets Point Jul 06 2007 02:41 PM

Yes, I did it on purpose. That's why I'm an asshole.

dgwphotography Jul 06 2007 05:15 PM

But are you from El Paso?

Frayed Knot Jul 06 2007 05:34 PM

Years ago I was an angry young man I'd pretend That I was a billboard Standing tall By the side of the road I fell in love With a beautiful highway

MFS62 Jul 08 2007 01:43 PM

Great pic. What town is that? Someone mentioned ElPaso, but that's not how I picture it. And I don't think oysters are one of their main attractions. (are they?) Later

dgwphotography Jul 08 2007 03:10 PM

MFS62 - it's Milford. It's going to be used for the Oyster Festival which is always held in August. I was making a joke with Willets. He mentioned being an asshole, and I was making a reference to a song by Kinky Friedman

Rockin' Doc Jul 08 2007 07:09 PM

As a fellow Nikon carrying shutterbug, I commend you for a beautiful picture. I always enjoys seeing your pictures when you post them.

DocTee Jul 08 2007 08:00 PM

bee-you-tee-ful

Farmer Ted Jul 09 2007 06:29 AM

Hmm, I think I'll put that on the calendar as a possible mini-vacation trip.

metsmarathon Jul 09 2007 09:18 AM

very nice. one of these days i need to get me an entry-level digital slr

Willets Point Jul 09 2007 09:46 AM

Milford is also home to a lot of high school sports melodrama with stilted dialog and poor illustration.

Edgy DC Jul 09 2007 09:52 AM

Where are you going to put the billboard?

dgwphotography Jul 09 2007 10:56 AM

[quote="Willets Point":2mp8he8e]Milford is also home to a lot of high school sports melodrama with stilted dialog and poor illustration.[/quote:2mp8he8e] I told them Clambake was a fraud, but they didn't listen.

dgwphotography Jul 09 2007 10:58 AM

[quote="Edgy DC":1tzpxx54]Where are you going to put the billboard?[/quote:1tzpxx54] I'm trying to get planning and zoning to approve installation on top of my garage. Failing that, it might fit on my expanding forehead...

dgwphotography Jul 09 2007 11:02 AM

[quote="Rockin' Doc"]As a fellow Nikon carrying shutterbug, I commend you for a beautiful picture. I always enjoys seeing your pictures when you post them.

Thanks Doc.

Have you tried Nikonians? It is a great site for all things Nikon. There are a lot of pros and well-versed amateurs perusing through their forums.

MFS62 Jul 09 2007 05:00 PM

[quote="Iubitul":1sbj5ftl] Failing that, it might fit on my expanding forehead...[/quote:1sbj5ftl] Uh oh. Steroids? And, of course, Milford. (slapping self on forehead.) I shoulda' remembered. Thon, I don't know that much about cameras. Isn't digital SLR an oxymoron? I thought SLR was reserved for film cameras. I knew SLR means you view the shot through the lens. Y'mean you can do that with a digital camera, too? Later

Rockin' Doc Jul 09 2007 07:04 PM

Iubitul, thanks for the heads up on the Nikonian site. I will definitely check it out. It would be great to pick up some pointers from others. I knew my old Nikon FG inside out, but after 22 years of great service the gears for the film advance simply locked up. I took it to a nice camera shop, but they advised me that it would cost more to fix the camera than it was worth. So that year my wife got me a Nikon N80 for Christmas. I still haven't learned all the different setting on the new one.

dgwphotography Jul 11 2007 11:26 AM

Hmmmm - the FG - they don't make cameras like that anymore. That N80 is a good camera - there are a lot of features built into it. I shot with an N90s for 11 years before I went digital last year - that camera is a tank.

TheOldMole Jul 12 2007 03:27 PM

Just saw this, and the picture is beautiful.

metsguyinmichigan Jul 26 2007 11:08 PM

Beautiful!!!! We lived in Milford from 1987 to 1990 before moving to Michigan. For a year I worked in our Milford bureau, which was right downtown -- in the same strip mall as our main competition, the New Haven Register. The City Hall there is magnificent!

dgwphotography Aug 01 2007 07:35 AM

Metsguy - this is an amazingly small world - I know exactly where your bureau for the Post was - I went to high school right up the road before it was turned into government offices... I've lived there my whole life - I have to ask - where i ntown did you live?

Edgy DC Aug 01 2007 07:56 AM

Ntown sounds kind of like a racist code-word. I was up in New Haven to visit a friend (non-Sister Christine) last week. Pretty nice.

dgwphotography Aug 01 2007 08:14 AM

[quote="Edgy DC":aq7stubd]Ntown sounds kind of like a racist code-word. I was up in New Haven to visit a friend (non-Sister Christine) last week. Pretty nice.[/quote:aq7stubd] Edgy - I wish I knew - I would have loved to show you around.

metsguyinmichigan Oct 08 2007 09:24 PM

[quote="Iubitul":whzm74pq]Metsguy - this is an amazingly small world - I know exactly where your bureau for the Post was - I went to high school right up the road before it was turned into government offices... I've lived there my whole life - I have to ask - where i ntown did you live?[/quote:whzm74pq] Sorry it took so long to reply! We lived in the Robert Treat Apartments for a year, and the adjoining Newport Apartments for two. They were nasty at the time, and I can only imagine what they are like 18 years later! But I really liked Milford. I used to run from the apartments to the beach. Beautiful!

Zvon Oct 11 2007 05:45 PM

This is a fantastic picture! It's perfect in composition. Perfect. Yancy, back in the day they would actually have artists recreate the picture on the billboard. Some of the best artists of the day I had ever seen did this type of work. They would really draw it then paint it, by hand, in box like sections from the source image. The original picture would have a box grid overlayed for use to scale. More recently they have gone to copying large boxed sections of the actual photo and printing them. Then the big boxes (sometimes rectangular strips) are pasted to the billboard in the proper place and you have a blowup of the photo thats as big as a house. They may do it a little differently since the turn of the century. Through computer use there's been a lot of new printing technology in the last 10 years and I have not kept up with current methods.