Framing LOTS of Great Little Photos

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Framar

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A really great customer who is a terrific photographer with two gorqeous little girls (who are BOTH hams!) brought in 127 4x6 and 3 1/2 x 5 photos, both black and white and color of the girls, together and separately. These are all absolutely stunning photos and she cannot decide which ones she likes best to have enlarged so she wants me to "do something" with the small prints.

I am thinking to divide them up so the color pix will be in different frames from the B&Ws, maybe different frames for each girl, and a separate frame for the two together.

This customer is fond of crisp metal frames, probably in black with white mats.

Can anyone think of anything DIFFERENT to do with all of these??? And remember, these girls are young yet - many more photos to come in their future and only so much wall space.

And "cutesy" is out as well, the pix are CUTE enuf! So no names or shapes other than rectangles allowed in this project. Maybe an inner mat with the openings cut and then an outer mat to "contain" them all?


My mind is blank. Arrrggghhh!

H E L P !!!!!!! (thanks!)
 
Mar, I've done some simple shadowboxes with photos like that.

I mount them, maybe on solid black rag, and trim them flush with a reverse bevel.

Then I mount them in the shadowbox. Some are right against the backing and some are built up with different amounts of recessed fomeboard to raise them off the backing. Most overlap one-another.

I know I'm not the only one that does this, and maybe someone has a photo to post.

BTW, I've always thought a blank mind would be preferable to one that's cluttered up with 45-year-old phone numbers and recipes for gin fizzies.
 
Maybe an inner mat with the openings cut and then an outer mat to "contain" them all?

I just did a project.... three goups of 15 photos, mix of black and whites (customer had already broken them down into groups of 15 photos each. Used black mat, cut all the openings, then an outer mat also in black to contain them. Looked nice and the customer was very pleased. The moulding was a dark cherry. This project was a bit tricky becasue the photos were a mix of 3 sizes... took a bit of tweaking with the layout.
 
Ron, you just reminded me of a large Bar Mitzvah shadowbox I did a while back, exactly as you described, only with black-core and bevels showing.

And, ginaperry, I like the idea of BLACK!!! And groupings!!!

The brain fog is clearing! (I've been busy working on getting the Horse Art Project onto my website - am learning a LOT!)

Thanks! Keep 'em coming, Y'all!
 
I'll ditto Ron. We started doing this years ago for a restaurant chain and it morphed into the same for customers. It allows you great flexibility in the groupings, an added benefit being that you can give the appearance of differing the sizes by the overlaps. These overlaps also cover up useless parts of the photos. You play with the whole thing a lot before you "nail" them down, but our customers love the idea.

I charge more because basically I hate doing them.
 
And doing them this way keeps you from having to do a gazillion openings!

Betty
 
Betty - ya gots a point there! At least until after my cataract surgery - lots of little openings wound be REAL hard to do!

Thanks for reminding me of the floating technique. I dug out the pix of it today and these I can show to my photog and away we go!!!

The Mitzvah frame was RED and the bevels were all red as well. Maybe I used red-core? Maybe I painted them? I don't remember. The color scheme of the Mitzvah was black and red, if yer wondering why on earth anyone would choose such a color combo! And it had a Las Vegas/casino theme going - OY!
 
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