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Photo Framing Follow-up

October 9, 2009 Jason1 Comment

After the blog post on Wednesday, and the number of comments received, I thought that the next podcast would be well served to discuss the idea behind matting and framing in more detail. As luck would have it, that podcast just went live earlier this afternoon! You can catch the podcast over at the Personal Life Media site here: Learning Digital Photography

Here’s the Show Notes:

In this latest episode of Learning Digital Photography, the Grand Prize winner from the September $500 giveaway is announced, and the October contest opens up – ready for your entries. The theme this time is Fall (open to interpretation). Specs, guidelines, and such are discussed including dimensions, dates for submission and more.

Also in this episode, a primer on framing your photos: things to look for and avoid when matting and framing work. I look at what gallery and show fine art venues usually require versus home or personal use.

Finally, the popular listener question and answer segment returns, with some great ones coming from all over the globe! Download today! Happy shooting!

The links mentioned in the show follow as well:

Rich Charpentier’s Website and Blog

Flickr Contest Thread

Redimat

American Framing

Don’t forget, every time you “Digg” the podcast over at PLM, or subscribe and write a review on iTunes , you are helping others enjoy the fun and thrill of photography. Feel free to also use those venues as well as the comments here and contact with me via email if you have an idea or thought to share about the show. Thanks, as always, for listening and reading. Have a great weekend, happy shooting, and we’ll see you back again on Monday!

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Great Scott, Mat, and Contests, Oh My!

August 14, 2009 JasonLeave a comment

Heh, cheesy headline, but they all seam together on this week’s episode of Learning Digital Photography! Yup, the podcast is done, and for those that didn’t catch my Twitter tease, this week I had the distinct pleasure of talking with none other than Scott Bourne on the show! If you don’t know who Scott Bourne is, then you’re living in a cave.

Scott is a regular contributor to Mac Break Weekly, This Week in Photography, and owner/operator of PhotoFocus. You can find him there, via his Bourne Media Group online presence and a bazillion other places like Photoshop World, Aperture Nature Photography Workshops, Bosque Del Apache, and much much more. I could link to it all but that would take an entire post of it’s own, so will point you to his main presence at Photofocus and Twitter:

http://www.photofocus.com

http://www.twitter.com/scottbourne

We had a great talk on this week’s show, covering his photo background from Motocross to Wedding work, and of course his Avian work as well. We took a look at a little of the gear side, got some nuggets on branding and the business side, and even had a chance for a couple twitter questions. Great stuff and all packed into a mere 30 minute interview! Thanks again to Scott for taking the time to talk to me on the podcast!

Other content from the show includes a discussion on some of the things to consider on matting and framing (hence mats in the title), and an in-depth look at the finalists from the last LDP contest. There’s also nuggets and links for other contests out on the web as well as what to look for in future LDP contests, so some teaser stuff there too. All in all, a great (but long) show so grab it from your preferred source point, whether with the folks at PLM, or in iTunes!

Here’s the links, as promised from the show!

Mats and Framing

Contests

Gear: Ring Flash

Technique: Causes of Blur

Camera shake
Subject Shake
Sharpness/Depth of Field

So, there’s the link love for the show – it was a lof of fun this week, but the weekend is almost upon us. This Saturday it’s another photoshoot with the Meetup Group and then some night photography as I prep for the next article of PhotographyBB Magazine! Make sure you get out and do some shooting too. Have a good weekend everyone and we’ll see you back here on Monday! Happy shooting!

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Printing, matting, and framing your pictures

October 6, 2008 Jason1 Comment

As I’ve recently moved to outsourcing my printing to Mpix, I’ve had to adjust my work flow accordingly. Prior to the Mpix migration, I had a set of sizes that I would print to, that allowed for matting and framing while not cutting into the picture itself. That set of procedures has been to print on the next largest paper size, which allows me to apply a mat to a photo before framing it. So, I had the following defined printing outputs:

So, what does this mean when using an online resource like Mpix? Well, since they usually print borderless pictures, it means you have to build in that border to your print. It also means paying a little more for your pcitures to be printed. Using the same principle as above, it simply means to increase the canvas size on your print so that it will fit in the next sized up frame. Then, just make sure your ID (inner dimension) size for the mat matches your actual image size, and your OD (outer dimension) size for the mat, matches the size of the frame you want to put your picture in.

There is also the alternative where you can just use the borderless print without any built in border if you want to use those glass or acrylic enclosures that have no frame border to them that would hide the edges of your print.

Keep in mind that there is a growing trend to adding a digital frame to your shots, to give a title and or copyright notice in that area. If you do that to your prints, the added dimension for the digital frame needs to be included in the “image size” when you go to print, mat, and frame your pictures.

Well, that’s it for today. If you’ve got any ideas, comments, suggestions, tips or tricks when it comes to printing, matting, and framing your shots, feel free to share those in the comments. Thanks for tuning in and we’ll see you back here tomorrow. Happy shooting!