Photos to compliment autographs?

[drc]

I was thinking the same. If you have a nice printer you could try printing out LOC baseball photos. They provide very high quality digital images for free. The LOC owns and scans the original negatives and, since it's a government entity, the images are free to use by the public.

UPI and similar did high quality reprints of their old photos. These are actual news photos with the official stamps on back, but were made later and thus are cheaper than the originals. You might ask if anyone on the board has any for sale.

You could also get into vintage news photos. I bet you could get some reasonably priced originals for your autographs. For a lot of players, including star players, you can find reasonably priced originals.

Something else to consider would be magazine covers and similar.

[MacDice]

If you are order via eBay, just ask them if the photos are printed via a photo lab.

To change the subject slightly, I always enjoyed vintage photos of players signing autographs for kids. Always thought that it would look nice to make those images with a 3x5.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by MacDice

If you are order via eBay, just ask them if the photos are printed via a photo lab.

Also ask them if they scanned the photo from the original themselves, and if so, at what resolution.

Typically, if they act at all squirrelly or avoid giving a direct answer, then they've just done a screen grab from the archives, an auction site, or just some random location they found by googling the player's name on the internet. These may look great on-screen, but the quality suffers greatly when printed.

Also be aware that the resolution the photo is printed at is not necessarily what the original was scanned at.

When all else fails, if you find what looks to be a good supplier of repro photos, do a cheap test buy from them to see what the quality is like. Or, for that matter, ask if anyone here has had experience with that seller.