When are borders and Title/Name appropriate in prints?
Of course, on the negative side, to the buyer, it does reduce the size of the image (by adding the border & shrinking the image) The owner of the print could always chose to mount OVER the border, but maybe they will think they "lost out" in not getting the image edge-to-edge.
Anyway, when is this a good idea? Is edge-to-edge never a good idea -- at least a thin border should always be used even if it has no information?
If you think the border is a good idea then how much information should I include?
Please let me know which elements should or should not be included and why:
(A) My name,
(
The Title,(C) The Location of the shoot as in City State or the name of the subject if it is iconic (i.e. Empire State Building),
Fallin Star wrote: That is a lot to write. For me, I do not sell my photos because I am not quite at that stage yet but if I were, I would probably:
1. Not put a border
2. Have my name or company name in the lower left or right corner of the photo
3. Not make it so large and distracting
4. Have it only says ©my name and possibly the year
I've seen many photos with all that stuff you're thinking about doing to it, border, names etc. but unless you are printing poster sizes, then I wouldn't try to take up that much room with the border.
Just my 2 cents
Ham1st wrote: I like the idea of having a large white border and my name ... when is this a good idea?
When it's what you want.
You should display the photo as you want it displayed.If the photo is going to be matted I find a border very helpful, as then I don't have to figure out a way to mount it to the back board. I have an 8x10 dry mount press, but that's not big enough for most of my prints these days. Having a framing shop do it is expensive, and I haven't found a mounting adhesive I like. So I like a big, thick border when I'm doing the framing.
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