Displaying your images

[W00DY]

Hi All,

How do you display your portfolio images to a new client in person (ie: not a website)?

I get a lot of enquiries from the website but then when I meet with the new clients they like to see images in print. I have a sample wedding album and mini brag book but I would like to put together a collection of printed images to let the client flick through (even if they are the same ones that are on the website).

Does anyone know of any really funky photo albums that look great and holds larger prints (maybe say 11x14).

Otherwise any other suggestions?

Cheers.
:dunno

[RustingInPeace]

Hi All,

How do you display your portfolio images to a new client in person (ie: not a website)?

I get a lot of enquiries from the website but then when I meet with the new clients they like to see images in print. I have a sample wedding album and mini brag book but I would like to put together a collection of printed images to let the client flick through (even if they are the same ones that are on the website).

Does anyone know of any really funky photo albums that look great and holds larger prints (maybe say 11x14).

Otherwise any other suggestions?

Cheers.
:dunno


For the hands on client I have a sample wedding album Graphi. I have several smaller print books done with Mpix. Then I have a 50 page portfolio done in all 12x18 prints. It gets the most attention. People like the big prints.

[jonh68]

Making a bound printed book is good too.

[W00DY]

For the hands on client I have a sample wedding album Graphi. I have several smaller print books done with Mpix. Then I have a 50 page portfolio done in all 12x18 prints. It gets the most attention. People like the big prints.

Hi Mate,

The 12x18 is this a printed book?

This is the size I want to display but I don't want a printed book, I want a system were I can change the images all the time, so it cant be bound.

Cheers.

[JDrake]

I use a leather "scrapbook" with black pages in it.... I can easily change out the pictures that are in it as my portfolio changes. I take this to horse shows and events also and leave it open for people to look through on a table. Everyone seems to like looking through it. Sometimes I will be asked if I have a particular image available in print to purchase too.

The pages are slipped into a plastic cover that keeps them "bound" to the scrapbook... this helps keep the prints safe from dirt and people's hands touching them. Just slip the black pages with the prints on them with tabs on the corners and away you go...

I have also taken along with me some hand printed BW images that I did in the darkroom that are dry mounted. People seem to enjoy seeing these images too... these are single prints not in a book or anything... just on matt board.

I plan on getting a sample wedding book to use in the future for wedding inquries though.

[glhphotos]

Many sources I have read (David Ziser, CJ Lewis, and others) all stress that you sell what you show. If you want to sell a great wedding book then you need to show a great wedding book. If you want to sell large prints, you need to show large prints. Showing a minibook or a bunch of 8x10's in a notebook will most likely mean that you will be selling more minibooks and 8x10's and not table sized wedding books and 20x30 prints. I see on your web site that you have a studio. Have you printed and framed several of your larger and best works? If not, that is what I'd do and then make sure that they have good lights to show them off. Also, don't frame them and then leave them on the floor; hang them and show how much you think of them.

[~Jan~]

I have tons of samles of various sizes, finishes, and mounts, and I lug them around in an art portfolio.