{"id":1905,"date":"2010-01-07T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2010-01-07T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T22:58:24","slug":"my-photo-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/my-photo-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"My Photo Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post responds to a friendly comment <\/a>made the other day by a regular reader called Womansvoice, suggesting I make my photos available as prints. Alex and Neatmouse, among others, have suggested this in the past as well. <\/p>\n

For illos today, I\u2019ll just use a few golden oldies.<\/p>\n

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I tried marketing prints of my photos a year or two ago, but then I dropped it. But now I\u2019m giving it another shot, this time with a little more organization and push. What I\u2019m doing is to amass a Photos gallery of my favorites at the online art site Imagekind. My Imagekind page is rudy.imagekind.com<\/a>, and you can see the Photos and Paintings print galleries there.<\/p>\n

For now I have the markup set very low on the photos—call it a Grand Opening Sale. That mushrooms picture that Womansvoice liked, for instance, is available in a 16″ by 19″ print for about $15.<\/p>\n

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While I\u2019m at it, I’m also posting the majority of these same favorite photos (most of them seen on this blog in a 600 pixel resolution) into a photostream on Flickr. The link for my Flickr photostream is www.flickr.com\/rudytheelder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I like using the Slide Show view <\/a> to look at Flickr photostreams, as the images are bigger.<\/p>\n

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I realize, of course, that one can (a) do a screen capture of a large-seeming Flickr slide show image, then (b) create a file in, say, Photoshop, and paste the screen capture into the new file, and then (c) print the file on one\u2019s home color printer.<\/p>\n

And who am I to say no to that! Go ahead and brighten up your office or refrigerator for free!<\/p>\n

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I would, however, point out that, ahem<\/em>, if you want a really nice print, the pixel count of the Imagekind-printed image is generally going to be five to twenty times that of the photostream slide show screen captures. And of course Imagekind is going to be using a better printer and paper combination than most of us have at home.<\/p>\n

Womansvoice and the others have also suggested I make a coffee-table book of my photos. Eventually I might do this, probably self-publishing it via Lulu. One slight snag is that the most on-line photo-book-making programs will brutally crop all photos to fit certain arbitrary standard aspect rations, such as the sacred (to some) 4 by 3 rectangle.<\/p>\n

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The only way I presently know for designing a photobook with no robo-crops is to make the book myself in Microsoft Word…and then to save the file off as a high-resolution Acrobat PDF file which I upload to the electronic publisher. <\/p>\n

Some of you will remember that I used this technique to make a book of my paintings, Better Worlds<\/em>, which currently sells for $32 via Lulu<\/a> \u2014and you can also find it listed for the same price on Amazon. From time to time I add more images and rebuild the book at a longer length, and the price goes up a bit.<\/p>\n

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Really, it\u2019s more like you self-publish an art or a photo book for yourself\u2014and as a gift for friends, or possibly as a promo tool to give gallery owners when you want to get a show. I guess I don\u2019t currently feel a pressing need for the photo book. As it stands, I haven\u2019t sold more than a couple dozen copies of Better Worlds <\/em>to people other than myself.<\/p>\n

One final remark: it is <\/em>possible to buy my original paintings no matter where you live\u2014last year I sold one to a person in Virginia, and another to someone in Germany. I pack \u201d\u02dcem up and give \u201d\u02dcem to Fed Ex. More info about buying original paintings is on my personal paintings site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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