Eating Your Own Dog Food
A follow up for those of you just starting out, lacking space, or on a tight budget
This month while Les is out of country, I took over the monthly DIY. My focus was to help those of you that might be a bit intimidated when thinking about displaying your prints in any venue. We talk a lot about making frames from scratch and all of the other things that go along with that, matting, cutting glass, etc, etc. I offered a solution to think about those that have never done any of it or worry about the cost of having someone else do it.
My proposed solutions were entirely theoretical. They were based on experience but I decided to do exactly what I proposed to all of you that may have just started to print your work might be intimidated at what it would take to exhibit those prints on a wall in your home or in and exhibition. I purchased the frames I proposed and printed at the sizes I recommended. Today I’ll share how that turned out and three different ways to use those frames, some caveats, and some upgrades. The first way I used these was to print, mount, and hang a test run of three photographs that have been hanging around in my “mini-gallery” for way too long. After seeing the results I’ve decided to make nine, read on….