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Aspect ratio and framing options

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Aspect ratio and framing options

- Now when you're photographing in standard aspect ratios that we're used to, the 2:3's and 3:4's and even the 4:5's which again is rare, but still out there, we would hope that you'd be able to buy a frame fairly simple for those formats. But traditionally, frames have revolved around this idea of 8x10, 11x14, 16x20, they're just so common and yet we don't really see photographs taken in that crop. I want to talk about a couple of things that we have to consider. As somebody who is interested in selling their work to the public, you have to take into potential extra costs. If a client wants to buy a print from you, a followup question might be from them, is this going to cost a lot in custom framing? The answer that you provide, nine out of 10 times I hope is, not at all and what we're trying to do I think essentially is simplify the cost for them and make it very transparent, so when I sell my work, I sell it in the 2x3 format in which it's photographed. I sell 8x12, I sell 12x18…

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