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I am considering printing this to hang on my wall. Like, dislike, great idea, err...why?

Please offer your opinions.

Thank you

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I've looked: I've looked again: I've looked a third time!
I checked that the date wasn't April 1st!!
Then thought you can't be having us on - you must be serious!!!
What room did you have in mind?
Where in the room did you imagine it to hang?
How large did you think the print might be?
Is the print a 'stand alone' with no others around or part of a group?
A black & white print or with some tinting?
It wouldn't suit any of my walls because hardly any of them are either flat or straight enough but perhaps in the right place .....
I might be tempted to put it in an entrance way as some sort of statement for people entering the house but it would need to be a very big print say 48" x 24". Just a thought!

jesse
 
It works quite well, the repeating diamond pattern helps hold the eye and the soft edge of the shadow provides a contrasting texture, but .... that one slight deformation in the diamonds is too much of a draw for me, I end up fixating on that one spot

... notice how I avoided using "juxtaposition" at all throughout that ;)
 
Jesse, you da man!!!

I do appreciate the honest.

Big white walls, in a group, maybe 11x14, black frame like the others, haven't decided on black or white matting.

Thank you Stewart.

Note, I have never hung any of my photos before... and errr... well... lets just say there is a reason.

But I have walls to cover so the time is now!!!
 
Too numerically repetitive without relief, the OOF bannister (?) somehow agitates rather than draws my eye.

Maybe print a small version, temporarily place it, and see what you think.
 
I like how it lightens up from one side to the other. Abstracts are fun because you don't have to worry about subject matter, sharpness, focus, all that stuff. It either works (for you), or it don't.
 
good plan, i agree w/ pherdinand's thought about black matte. Except maybe do a largish frame with black matte to concentrate the view. With a large enough frame and matte, I bet the bigger print does well. Would like to know what you decide after looking at both sizes.
 
I have a huge amount of space on my walls right now. I went to a local art shop (a big one, "best" in Hartford county they say) yesterday and looked at a lot of frames and matting. I spoke to the owner about my plans. I am going to hang a variety of 8x10 and 11x14 photos. The frames will be 11x14 and 16x20. All standard stuff. I am yet to decide if I am going to buy pre-matted frames, for which there are some really nice options, buy frames and mat myself, or have the shop do the matting with unmated frames. Price wise, unless I do it myself I don't think there is going to be any savings, and even if I do it myself I don't know with what I am looking at that the savings will be great. Custom framing would be much more expensive, and unnecessary I think as I am going to keep to these standard sizes.

I am going to print a lot of images and from there pick what I like best. Editing down from my entire flickr to a few dozen prints, then to some number to hang will be fun. And since I have decided to make the prints for my favorites, I can always change my mind. The folks at the shop are going to sit down with me and will put together some method I can see the full size images with black or white matting to decide what will be best for each.

I have some old negatives though that I have to find to rescan. This is going to be a big test of my archival system. I have binders and binders of negatives, some what coded so hopefully I have a real chance to find everything I am looking for. Low hanging fruit tackled this morning, the scans I have on my computer currently. Next I will pull the few digital images off the CDs I burned as back ups (no recent digi snaps are making the cut). Finally I will be hitting the binders for the old negatives.

Thanks for your thoughts, keep them coming.
 
if interested, the photos I am looking at to print are in this flickr set

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roversworld/sets/72157626126995186/

Please keep in mind that I will not be printing everything in this set, nor is everything I think I want to print in there yet.

I find photography interesting. These photos are meaning full to me, and I am the target audience, but I know some will just be blah to you. But likewise, if I were to look at your work I may or may not appreciate it as much as you do. Interesting in a way that no matter what, we can be happy with both things that are technically well done, and some that are just goof snaps of our kids.

Thanks for looking.
 
In a word, No. Just don't like it and that shadowy thing sticking into it doesn't help.
But sometimes you make an image and just love it for some reason so don't let my opinion sway you. It'll certainly be a talking point. Either that or a sign of bad taste depending on the viewers opinion. But then again it may have some siginficance for you that we are completely unaware of and it really isn't for public consumption. In that case I don't know why you are asking.
 
rover - I think 11x14 is way too small, unless of course those dimensions are in feet and not cms!!!
I'm not sure why you want a smallish print. If the photo is a 'good' one then it will stand enlargement and can be viewed from a distance. Size you are contemplaring would need me to put on my glasses to see what it was!
Dang me - now where did I put them?
Oops - found - I'm wearing them!
It's that old age thing again!!

jesse
 
Nice, diverse set, Rover. And 11x14 is kind of smallish unless set into a big frame. But I would use a white mat with a thin black frame on that particular shot. Maybe a double mat of a half inch black surrounded by six inches of white, then the black frame.

PF
 
Cut your own mat boards - it's relatively easy and will save you bunch of money. Plus, it gives you a lot of freedom- you can do any size you want, or two windows in one mat board, or whatever else you may think of. Buy large piece in art supply store and have them cut to your frame size, and cut the inside window yourself. Equipment for this is not that expensive.

11 by 14 is pretty small, of course depending on the wall. I recently did some printing 20 by 30 for exhibition and they looked large on a table, but on a large walls- not really. Generally, the bigger the better.
 
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