Picture Frames
Apr 23, 2015 13:47:48 #
Harry Thomas
Loc: Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Can anyone recommend an online picture frame establishment that will drop ship different size picture frames intended for a photo display show? Economical is paramount. Thanks in advance.
Apr 24, 2015 07:15:30 #
Don't know about drop ship, but I ordered a case of 24 8X10 frames for less than $30 from Dollar Tree online and shipped to their store. Not museum quality, but fine for the purpose I ordered them.
Apr 24, 2015 08:47:06 #
Harry Thomas
Loc: Doylestown, Pennsylvania
larrywilk wrote:
Don't know about drop ship, but I ordered a case of 24 8X10 frames for less than $30 from Dollar Tree online and shipped to their store. Not museum quality, but fine for the purpose I ordered them.
Thank you very much for your response. I'll take a look and see what they have.
Apr 24, 2015 12:03:16 #
Don Fischer
Loc: Antelope, Ore
Do yourself a favor and cut down on the number of photo's and go up on the quality of frame's. No matter what you think of frame's if your photo's don't look that great in them, people will think it's the photo, not the frame and probably it is the frame. years ago a friend that had a custom frame shop told me that most photographer's don't like mat's other than white and don't like frame's. She said they don't want anything to distract from their photo. I don't think anything could be farther from the truth. A run of the mill photo in a great frame looks great. A great photo in a cheap frame look's cheap. But frame's, even cheap one's do get expensive. So if I were going to show a bunch of photo's and didn't want to put the money into a frame, I'd put the photo on foam core and shrink wrap it. Let the customer envision whatever frame he/she wants to. Had a guy service some lenses for me a lot of years ago. He told me to take a really good photo and mount it in a really nice frame and put a price of say $265 on it and sell the print's separate. What happen's is a really nice framing job makes the print look even better and makes the price of the print worth $90! How? Nobody believe's framing cost's that much! This was maybe 15 yrs ago so I suspect the price's have gone up. Point is, don't cut corner's on the frame, it is showing off your photo!
Apr 24, 2015 13:19:09 #
Harry Thomas
Loc: Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Don Fischer wrote:
Do yourself a favor and cut down on the number of ... (show quote)
Thank you for your input. I will take what you say seriously. Quite a different approach I hadn't considered.
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Apr 25, 2015 00:13:28 #
RWR
Loc: La Mesa, CA
Harry Thomas wrote:
Can anyone recommend an online picture frame establishment that will drop ship different size picture frames intended for a photo display show? Economical is paramount. Thanks in advance.
Not sure how economical, but Aaron Brothers carries a good selection of standard and custom frames. I've seen nice wooden frames at Ross Dress For Less (!) and World Imports, but cannot say if they are archival, which is the only type I will mount my photos in.
Apr 25, 2015 07:16:37 #
Harry Thomas
Loc: Doylestown, Pennsylvania
RWR wrote:
Not sure how economical, but Aaron Brothers carries a good selection of standard and custom frames. I've seen nice wooden frames at Ross Dress For Less (!) and World Imports, but cannot say if they are archival, which is the only type I will mount my photos in.
Thank you very much. I will follow up check out their costs and selections.
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