Ewen broke the mould with his judging for our monthly competition (set subject ICM), turning it into a very educational presentation highlighting concepts that he illustrated using a selection of the entries.
His presentation slides can be downloaded from
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nai1n0ug2rui0qsmiuk7t/WCC-ICM-2024.pdf?rlkey=4rouxml3h3vh11x8fc3wlgnp6&dl=0
He also has provided comments on many of the individual entries that you can view in the monthly competition galleries on SmugMug (Intermediate Print, SetSubject and Open; Advanced Print, SetSubject and Open)
He showed us A0 prints made from 12 megapixel JPEG images, that he had upscaled using Upscayl, a free, open source, AI based program for increasing the pixel count of images. There are desktop versions for Windows, MacOS and Linux. https://upscayl.org (see video link How Big is 12MP below). [Note: there are other alternatives – Photoshop (current version) does a very reasonable job; Gigapixel from Topaz Labs is excellent and there are others – https://www.howtogeek.com/868512/how-to-ai-upscale-an-image-or-video-8-best-tools/ gives some other options.]
Plus he gave us a few YouTube links that might be relevant:
Processing and printing A0 from 12MP using Upscayl
ICM with Moving Prayer Wheels
Finding a path to creativity with the camera
Ewen also has a lot of lovely material on his website at ewenbell.com and his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@EwenBell