1,000 Fans

[pecunium]

I have a show coming up in Ottawa. Right now the question is how many pictures, and which ones. 10 is about the most, and 6 is the bottom.

So that's one thing. The venue (a coffee house/gallery) will hang the stuff for a month. I can also have cards... for those who don't want/can't afford a larger sized piece. However, hanging a show isn't free. I have to pay for the prints, the mattes and the frames. Things also need to be shipped (or else trust an agent in Ottowa to get them done properly. Not too bad, if the lab has good color control).

So, on the theory that what an artist needs to make a living, and keep making art is, 1,000 Fans I'm making a pitch to the lot of you.

I sell pictures. Not as often as I'd like, but it's what I'm doing. So I'm making a pitch. In order to get the money for the mounting (somewhere between 250-500 dollars) I'm pointing up that one can buy unframed prints for $25 US. That's the optimal print, on a an 8x10 sheet, archival. Shipping included. Larger prints can be made, up to sheet sizes of 13x19, though those will cost a little more (in the $50-75 range depending on size).

If you are feeling flush... you can order something mounted, or mounted and framed (frames need mounts, or the picture degrades... you can get mounted, or mounted and framed, but not just framed). Those will run between 60-250. Shipping varies.

There's an inventory of 360 some (and growing) images at my Flickr stream. Boxed up in all sorts of categories for trying to choose one.

For those who want to weigh in (or just preview) the show... the sets For the wall and Cards. Right now, For the Wall isn't right. There are four photos from The Galapagos, which are coherent (and will hang together). Which leaves 4-6 for the other wall. Right now that's not gelling, so comments, criticisms and the like are perfectly accpetable (be it here, or there [though one needs an account with flickr to post comment there; and I can't get around it the way I can here])

So... if you have any interest, or have friends who might, you can drop me a line at terrence.karney.photographyATgmail.com, and we'll figure out what you want, and how to get it to you.

Comments

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

So.Hard.To.Choose.

Congratulations!

[shunra.livejournal.com]

It's amazing, how very expensive it is to get a show up, isn't it? Never mind the materials - the *time* involved is huge. (But so gratifying).

Re: Congratulations!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yes. When I did 18 images, most of them much larger, last year... it took more than a month to select, size and print. Then came the framing. That was about 2 hours with the framer... trying to select the colors.

My brain was mush when we left.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I'll email you tonight. I want something from the Galapagos trip.

[zhaneel69.livejournal.com]

First off, kudos to you for doing this and putting yourself out there.

Second, what would one have to do to properly caretake an 8x10 from you? I'm trying to figure out if I can afford to grab one (I know, $25 isn't much but I'm also not a huge art person and have a lot of expenses this month). But I want to know what other costs I'm looking at to properly display the piece. Lemme know, here or at my email (zhaneel AT gmail DOT com).

Finally, I really adore the fully ripe grape picture and hope you keep that for the wall, regardless of others for that theme.

Zhaneel

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Caretaking it, in the long term... a double matte and frame. In the near term... keep it in the envelope until you get the time/money interest to get it mounted.

In the middle term... Standard pigment inks for the printing of digital photos are a strange form of "fugitive color" in which the colors, rather than fading as a result of pigments being changed from UV light, they fade from a lack of exposure to light.

So, you can keep in in the shipping envelope for up to a year, no worries. I'd not take it in and out; because these are glossy prints, and the finish can scratch.

At some point you'll want to take it to a framer and get it mounted/framed. If you can/want to dust it, you can just matte it. In terms of money the most cost effective is to get the matte/frame done at the same time.

It needs a matte, because contact with the glass will degrade the picture. For reasons I don't quite understand, a double matte is reccomended. I suspect it's an issue of airspace between glass and print and a single matte, of 1/4 inch, would would suffice.

For an actual photographic print, on gelatine paper (which is the new term for plain old photo-paper) can be single matted, but it looks better, IMO, doubled.

Depending on the framer, costs will be between $25-50 for the mounting, and about the same for framing.

I did a framing of the grapes in May, and it was $80, for a double matte, frame and low-reflectance museum "glass".

So... the price for an unframed print, when all is said and done, is going to be between $75-100.