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even though i am now a digital rf shooter i still have prints made and hang them on my walls.
i have pretty much standardized on 8x10 prints hung gallery style...just stright across the wall, all at the same height from the ceiling.
i like the look and somehow it's very popular with my visiting friends. i think it makes me look more of a photographer than an interior decorator ;).

lately, i have bought a few 'nice' frames (not my usual cheap ikea ones) and larger frames. i had a 16x20 print of one of my more visited/commented on flickr images.

and damn it looks good in that big frame...now i just need to find/make room on a wall for it. that's the hard part so far...

and so, feeling quite satisfied with myself i now encourage those of you who do not hang your images for others to view...to do so!
 
I have always wanted to hang some of my stuff... Money is the issue... unless I do $5.00 frames with $4.00 prints...

I do have one 20x30 of my Father-In-Law from a B&W negative though... really nice one....

I should do more though...
 
Yep, you can't beat a good print displayed on a wall. I have two walls covered with my prints, one wall is color, the other one B&W. My prints are of varying sizes and scattered haphazardly all over the place. I'm in the process now of updating my B&W wall with several new B&W shots I took this summer. Gives me a chance to get back in my darkroom as well as re-decorate my home.

Jim B.
 
If I had a printer, I would probably print a photo or three and put them on the wall. And I would print them fairly large - 10x8 doesn't cut it for me. As it is, I have paintings on the walls, and they're mostly 1m wide. I don't think I'd make photos that big, though - 20x16 sounds about right.

(I got into painting because I wanted real paintings on the walls. After a while, I decided some van Goghs would be nice, but I couldn't afford the real thing, so I did some copies.)
 
I have a lot of fun picking the appropriate frames to go with the right prints, I typically will print in 4x6 and 8x12 with 35mm, so as to avoid cropping for the more common 5x7 or 8x10 frames. I'd like to try a couple prints in 10x15, 12x18 or even a 20x30...
 
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There used to be a place in town that sold ready-cut mats for 12x16 prints, for 16x20 frames. A shop across the street sold the 16x20s. The place that sold the mats went out of business and nowhere else carries ready cut mats that size, so even through I can still get the frames, the mats I'd need to get custom. So I go to the local frame shop where you can DIY, and though it's not cheap it's definitely worth it. I have a couple pictures I want to print 15x22.5 (the biggest I can do on my printer with ready paper), so hopefully I'll be able to get those printed sometime soon.

I like plain black frames too, with white mats!
 
large craft stores sometimes have pre-cut mats in varous colours.

there is a shop called michaels here in town that has them.
 
There's a Michael's not too far away... maybe I'll try them some time. It was an art store that had the pre cut ones–all of the art stores in town do, but just not in the size I want!
 
I printed several of my favorite photos this summer and hung them in my classroom. That's where I spend most of my day. I am enjoying them and plan to print more to hang.
 
I have about 150 prints matted in museum board mats and framed in Nielsen frames in boxes. I moved into a new apartment in September and haven't had time to hang any yet :(
 
I haven't printed anything in a couple of years. A deficiency that needs correcting. Joe thanks for the encouragement to all of us lazy folk. And, Chris, damn, you're an inspiration.
 
robklurfield said:
I haven't printed anything in a couple of years. A deficiency that needs correcting. Joe thanks for the encouragement to all of us lazy folk. And, Chris, damn, you're an inspiration.
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Mine are left over from the many years when I regularly exhibited my work in galleries and museum exhibits in the midwest. Few things ever sold, so I've still got them. I sell more from my website each year than I did in 15 yrs of exhibiting, because people where I live just don't see any value in what I do. My patrons are 100% outside Indiana, some outside the USA.
 
I just make my prints at Adoramapix.com. Cheap and good! Also, Adorama has a pretty big frame collection including matted frames.

I'd be curious if inkjet printing is better than the Adorama photo paper printing.
 
i've never gotten prints made, whether film or digital, but lately i've been really feeling the urge to see my work outside of the computer and negatives...

the lab where i get my film developed is currently having a 33% off sale on canvas and metal photo art, so i went ahead and ordered 4 canvases and 1 metal art yesterday. i'm super excited about seeing my photos on my walls for the first time. :D

come to think of it now, prints + frames is probably a much better way to go than canvas prints because with prints + frames you can easily update/switch out your photos as better ones get taken.... but oh well. i wanted to do prints as well, but for some reason my lab can't/won't do square prints and everything i wanted printed was square! wtf is up with that?! :mad: plus square frames are harder to find....
 
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