401 You've Been Framed

So tell us, what are you doing with framing at the moment?

Yeah, it's very interesting.

Framing to view prints... is a very interesting, often subjective, also very connected to budgets because there's no end of what's possible.

Size of object or print, very important.

Obviously, the bigger, the better.

Just for the framer I'm talking about, not for us.

Oh, I see.

Okay.

I like big prints as well, so that's

good.

The other choices, of course, is glass, museum glass or reasonably non-reflective glass as opposed to normal glass.

So there's a lot of factors and it has a lot to do with where you are going to hang your photo.

But for example, if your photograph was...

I'm going to say, for home use, not terribly big, maybe an 8x10, something a little bit bigger than a snapshot, but something that you were going to hang on a wall very close to sunlight, bright sunlight, it would behoove you to really check out what the reflective qualities of the light on it.

Is it highly reflective for just a few hours a day and then the rest of the time very viewable? Or is it always in that glare? So that's a very simple decision even before you choose the frame.

Is it matted? Is it not matted? Is it a reusable frame? Is it not? But the choice of glass has a lot to do with one's experience on viewing it.

um generally for quote home use i don't i don't go with museum glass the light changes enough so that that that would be um an additional expense and might i just say that museum glass is very expensive

right i was gonna say yeah i'm not quite sure i fully understand what would be all of the desirable properties of museum glass

Well, the properties are such that in an environment, the glass serves in a way as protection.

At the same time, it does not distract in any way from the actual image.

So the light that's reflected off the print which can reveal shadow detail and subtleties in the mid-ranges and all the rest of it, are not competing with the flare and glare of light bouncing off normal glass windows.

But with museum glass, it absorbs the light straight through and you can have a very one on one visual discussion with your print.

So that therein is a decision to be made.

When you're, you know, doing a piece in a gallery, obviously, you want to put your best foot forward in terms of presentation.

So museum glass is generally a good thing.