Well, we finally ordered a piece of art to display on it, and we love the way it came out.
It's a scene of the city of Istanbul that Tommie took during our honeymoon to Turkey in 2011.
We were toying with the idea of getting panoramic prints for few of Tommie's photographs, but prices for large images can get expensive…add to that any frames and we were quickly looking at over a couple hundred dollars for just one piece of art.
We have ordered several of Tommie's photos on 16x20 canvas before and have been really pleased with the quality, so when we noticed that Canvas On Demand was having a 70% off sale for a three-panel "PhotoSplit" (triptych), we jumped on it. It cost $75 for what was normally $350. One of the benefits of canvas is that no frames are required, saving additional costs.
It took us a long time to decide which image to use. Finally, we decided on the sepia mosque scene because we figured the coloring and the image itself would look great above the couch. Even though it is one image broken up into three sections, serendipitously, each panel has two marionettes in it and could almost exist on its own. (Each panel is 15x30 inches with a two-inch gap in between.)
Our advice for choosing an image to use for a triptych is to go for a scene that was captured fairly close up and includes a large impact subject. Each panel should look good on its own as well as together, and don't choose something that will be ruined by the breaks. The hardest part is, of course, hanging them so they line up perfectly. Let's just say there was a lot of math involved (not on my part or else they'd be way off.)
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