> I believe images 12"x18" matted to 20x26 will be about my limit. I can go
> to 16x24 if needs be. But most of my customers are satisfied with the
20x26.
Wow! Stop the presses! Bob and AG are in agreement!!! :)
The vast bulk of my sold art prints through the years have been a maximum
of that size. I've sold much larger, but those are rarities, not the norm.
I'm not sure how many of those bed-spread sized prints actually sell. There
aren't that many McMansions out there with people willing to spend $6000
for a piece of wall-art that doesn't have brush-strokes all over it. I know
most of my work isn't that good and I'm not famous enough.
My sweet spot seems to be 11x14 matted to 16x20 or 20x24. Also, I generally
don't print to the edges, leaving between 1 and 3 inches of border around
the image. For images from 35mm film and from sub 10 megapixel sensors,
this appears to be about the maximum enlargement before the image starts to
fall apart. A few images, because of subject/composition, have no upper
limits in size, but the bulk of my images are composed for that 11x14 print
size in B&W, 12x18 for color.
Thinking back through the trends of the 23 years I've been selling prints,
the vast majority have been 12x18" with 1" border to provide adequate
overrun for mounting and matting. But that statistic is a little skewed
because I've only been rolling my own B&W prints for less than half that
time.
Another trend I've seen come and go a few times over the years is photo
groupings. Instead of one big print, people will buy two or three smaller
ones that work together as a group. Bordered 8x10" prints have done very
well in this regard. (by my standards). But those seem to work best when I
compose and shoot specifically for it. Just picking two or three prints to
work together doesn't cut it. I actually compose for the eye-flow from one
print to the next.
Which reminds me, I never did complete my mega contact-print project. I
started working on it, discovered that my accuracy wasn't good enough and
then ran out of time. I also really need to get a 2-way pano-head to do
this right.
AG
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