Genuine Fractals super-sizes Grand Prize-Winning Photos at the Smithsonian

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Hampton’s action photo was this year’s Grand Prize winner in Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards. Taken in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, Hampton was in the right place at the right time with the right equipment with just enough protection in a safari vehicle as the lioness raced right past him.

“There are a couple of things I do to increase the chances of getting a shot like that… I have a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II with a full frame sensor and a 600mm lens using AI Servo mode,” says Hampton. “The 600mm lens also helps utilize all the pixels you capture, which is important for printing. Still, I needed to use Genuine Fractals to res it up to the size I wanted for optimized printing on the Epson from the camera’s native resolution. The native size in the camera is around 16×24 at 360 ppi. Even with a high-powered computer it takes 10 to 15 minutes for Genuine Fractals software to generate new pixels to make a print that large at 360 ppi. Then, ImagePrint utilizes the Epson print engine at its maximum capability so that you get the sharpest image available. The RIP takes you the extra mile.”