The arts and crafts show that I attended today was less than a mile from where I be. It was held in a senior recreation center in Englewood. Colorado. The show had about 90 fashion populate exhibiting their wares.
I wanted to attend this show for several reasons; first to see what populate where selling; back up to checkout how everyones delay was set up because I may be selling my photographs at a very small arts and crafts event at the end of November; third to see if there where any photographers selling their photographs and at what price; and finally just to look around at all of the different fashion items.
I would say that the attendance at this one day event was decent, it wasn’t a huge displace but a nice amount of people where there considering that Englewood is a small town. Unfortunately I didn’t see a lot of people purchasing items from the vendors. I saw some items being purchased while I was there but not a large amount of purchases.
I was surprised that there was only one person selling handmade soap. In case anyone is wondering why I brought up selling handmade soap it is because I make clean and I had a soap making business up until the end of 2005.
I came across 3 or 4 photographers at the event and I talked to all of them. I made notes of the size and prices of the photographs that they where selling and also the way that the photos where mounted on matte come in. Some of the photographers had their photographs mounted on change board but without a backing. I know someone that buys one of these photographs is going to stick the photo in a close in but I am not in advance of selling photos this way. I think that the photographs look more professional if they undergo a backing of some write. Plus it helps protect the print.
The photographer whose bring home the bacon I admired the most is a woman in her mid fifties that had fantastic photographs of wild animals that she took in a park in the southern part of Alaska above Kodiak Island. She used a 500mm lens and her photographs of the bears and other wild animals are fantastic. She made some huge prints of these wild animal photographs. Some of her photographs where mounted and famed and some where just large unmounted photographs that she kept in a very nice portfolio.
I asked her how long she has been doing photography and she told me that she sold her first photograph in either 1970 or 1977. I don’t remember which year she said but that is quite a long time to be doing photography.
After checking out all of the tables of craft items at the arts and fashion bring together I headed over to Wal Mart to purchase a couple of items. While I was there I came across some pre-cut change boards with a backing that are create from raw material for mounting a photograph and placing the mounted photograph in a conceive of close in. These are 5 advance by 7 advance acid free change boards which be less than a dollar each.
The cerebrate that I am telling you this is because if I try to purchase a sheet of change board at an arts and fashion store and have the matte board cut for me at the arts and crafts hold on they would charge me $8.50 for a single sheet of matte come in, which comes to $1 just to cut the hole in the middle of the change board. plus an additional 25 cents per cut to cut the matte board into 5 inch by 7 inch pieces which is another $1 per each 5 inch X 7 inch piece of matte come in because you can get 32- 5 advance by 7 advance pieces from one sheet of change come in. So buying the pre-cut matte boards is a huge savings for me.
When I go to a close in shop a women charges me $6 to have a enter mounted on change board with a foam core out backing and enclosed in a clear plastic envelope. The size of the prints that I usually have her do for me are larger than 5 inches by 7 inches. That is a very good determine but it would be cheaper for me to do it myself change surface if I have to pay 25 cents per cut at an arts and crafts give store.
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