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I have an opportunity to pitch to a local pro photographer but have almost no experience framing photos. I could use some advice!
I know that photos are often drymounted and that different photo papers etc. behave differently and require different mounting approaches. Is that right? Something best left to the drymounting experts I guess.
The photographer in question also offers her customers float frames with a very narrow face and the photo presumably mounted (and sealed?) floating within said frame. Can anyone give more details on this process?
Likewise, she offers photos mounted on acrylic blocks. I see Lion see these things but again would appreciate some insight into the process.
If anyone has any other advice for me before I contact the photographer I'd be really grateful. I need to know if it's viable for me to take this work on and if so what I'd need to do to get up to speed.
simons sell them called boxx
arquadia sell them called inset mouldings
basically you print, laminate and mount on 5mm foamcore or mdf and glue it into the frame you make
i often use polcore from mainline for this too as its very cheap and looks great
you idealy need to be using a cold laminator to do the mounting, less issues with edges getting crushed
acrylic blocks
small blocks that sit on desks etc, you can buy from simons, 15 and 20mm thick, you need a cold laminator and transparency mount film, both lion and hot press sell this
the print has to be a very glossy print for it to work well
framing pictures, yes you quite often dry mount them but not always
becareful what you dry mount onto, generally decent foamcore will work well enough, but for very very glossy prints, you need somethign smoother, like diabond
