Originally posted by philbaum So are you saying that if i "wear" my pictures, I could sell them better
Seriously - I think you should show a few pictures with your jewelry - i find that small pictures sell easier because they don't take up much room for travel or in the home. I've thought of printing a picture on a tee shirt, and i suppose if someone wanted to buy that i could just take it off and sell it to them
Also custom pics look good on coffee cups, etc.
I've got to do a craft fair or two this year - just accumulating too many prints without homes :-)
Have a great New Year!
Actually I really do wear my photography sometimes in a way. I have used some of my photos as centerpieces for necklaces and earrings and such, and yeah, people buy them, sometimes right off me. I like to use my own work for stuff like that. I actually can use a lot of stuff that's not mine for the type of work I do. Up and to a point it's even legal but there are various laws that cover derivative art and you do have to be careful about sticking to that or you might face a lawsuit. I can actually use things from magazines and such if it's used in such a way as to alter it. I can use part of a picture for instance, but not the whole thing. Not unless they license the use. I can use things that are out of copyright like Victorian images, vintage family photos, holy cards, post cards, valentines, and stuff like that, and I do, but again I'm very careful about the what and how.
I like using my own images because I don't have to worry about any of that. If I stage it, take the photo, it's mine to use as I want. No legal headaches. I really like making pseudo Victorian steampunk stuff, dark gothic stuff, with lockets and such. I've used a lot of my nature images and images of goth an mechanical things in those. I'm always pressing flowers to put in them, along with old images. A lot of the stuff I make it's almost like the old Victorian mourning jewelry. I like working with bones, skeletons, angels, grim reapers symbols or images there of. I'm taking a silver working class soon. I want to learn proper metal working, at least in bronze, silver, and copper. I got to thinking about this and I'm thinking I could make some steampunk and goth frames for my photos. I think they'd sell quite well that way. Not just as prints, but as artworks, more or less...