Printing Nikon D850 Iceland Landscape Photos the Size of a House

How often have you pixel peeped at another camera to see if you could print the images large enough to fit on your wall? I bet you've never considered printing it the size of your entire house, but that's exactly what this photography duo did in Iceland.

As part of an installation in a new production factory in Iceland, Gudmann and Gyda set about preparing their incredible landscape photographs of their native Iceland to hang them as prints inside the factory, prints bigger than the size of some houses, perhaps the largest photos to be printed in Iceland ever.

Putting the Nikon D850's 45.7-megapixel sensor to the test they had to calculate how their shots would sit on the walls of the factory, one of which stands at a whopping 113 square meters in size, (and another at 43 meters long). In this incredible video, Gudmann and Gyda take you through their process of achieving fantastic results in such a huge space, including the overseeing of the images being printed, plus overcoming the challenges of hanging such massive photos. They take us behind the scenes for a candid look at their entire process, including the logistics of putting it all together, cherry-pickers and cranes included. If you've ever wanted to see what it takes to print absolutely huge images, or are interested in how the Nikon D850 fared with the challenge, then this video is for you.

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Jason is an internationally award-winning photographer with more than 10 years of experience. A qualified teacher and Master’s graduate, he has been widely published in both print and online. He won Gold in the Nikon Photo Contest 2018/19 and was named Digital Photographer of the Year in 2014.

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I really enjoyed this video. Fascinating to see the process unfold for creating such huge prints!

Thank you! This project was also a fascinating experience.

Awesome!

I enjoyed this... amazing scenery!

Just nonsense. The maths is simple..pixel dimension ÷ print resolution at say 300ppi = print size. So 24mp (6000 x 4000) = 20" in the long dimension. 45mp (9000 x 5000 approx) = 30" in the long dimension.

But of course you don't view wall size at a few inches....which is why advertising hoarding can be shot on low res cameras.

And the human eye resolution? Varies of course but generally assumed to be able to discern around 8 lpmm.....

Maybe your patience waned and you didn't watch the complete video where he discusses your point at the very end. He actually states that printing at 55ppi is not uncommon in advertising because the average viewing distance is so large.

now that is a printer the 5 ton one and boy would I love to take one of my images and have it printed as large as a house.