Bragging rights
May. 2nd, 2009 12:28 pmI sold a photo to
soul_diaspora. What with packing, and budget concerns, getting it done was a pain.
My printer was packed. My for the size she wanted, getting it framed (And shipped) was going to put it either out of budget, or; at best, break even for me. I like her, but losing money on selling a print is no way to be able to stay in the business of making of prints.
So
commodorified (who has been acting as my agent in Ottawa) undertook to deal with the more difficult option. Removing the packing and shipping costs would mean we could get it printed at this wonderful (but pricey) printer in Ottawa (we wanted to use him for the show at Umi, but there was no way to justify the couple of hundred extra it would have cost to get the prints done).
Pricing for matting/framing ought to be no more, so; for a slight discount, I could afford to make it work.
Well, things are never quite that simple. The cost of frames isn't trivial, and so instead of being able to get it made to order we had to go with matting to a pre-made frame for size.
commodorified was having six kinds of wibble about getting the matting done (because she'd seen me at the framers, going back and forth between colors. I like to use a pair of complementary mattes. If I do it right the subtleties of the image are more plain. For really stark images, or for Black and Whites, a plain white, or black, can be enough, but I, personally, don't like that for color).
Well, it was delivered, and
soul_diaspora is pleased.
(n.b., for those who like pictures of birds, and animals, she does some good work)
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My printer was packed. My for the size she wanted, getting it framed (And shipped) was going to put it either out of budget, or; at best, break even for me. I like her, but losing money on selling a print is no way to be able to stay in the business of making of prints.
So
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Pricing for matting/framing ought to be no more, so; for a slight discount, I could afford to make it work.
Well, things are never quite that simple. The cost of frames isn't trivial, and so instead of being able to get it made to order we had to go with matting to a pre-made frame for size.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Well, it was delivered, and
![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
(n.b., for those who like pictures of birds, and animals, she does some good work)