Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. - Ansel Adams

Mounting and Finishing Photographs

Image Copyright Chris Shepherd - Used with permission

Photographer Chris Shepherd has recently written a rather good series on his blog explaining in depth how to mount and frame your photographs. My guilty secret is that as I always pay someone else to do this for me his article is all new information for me. It's very important information and well wroth digesting if you want to exhibit or sell prints. I have included links to all seven of Chris's articles and really recommend them as an in depth and usefull read.

1. Introduction To Mounting & Framing
2. Preparation of your mount
3. Mount Cutting
4. Final Assembly Of Your Mount
5. Framing Your Photograph
6. Equipment For Framing & Mounting
7. Conclusion - Why Frame your own images?

Image © Ron Tear 2007 - Used with permission

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Unfortunately in the current age of tabloid press and moral panic there is an enemy under every bed. In fact if the press are to be believed the general public is composed solely of sinister people we are to all to fear and distrust (for our own good and their circulation...).

Sadly for photography the collateral damage of this culture of paranoia has been a certainty in the eyes of many of the public that any photographer in any public place is either a paedophile or a terrorist. It would seem in the eyes of the angry mob that there is no possible other motive for taking pictures in public places. The magazines heavily illustrated with photographs tell them this so it must be true. Right?