Figuring this Junk Out

[Walter]

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[Aggie]

Good Luck

[Fox Paw]

Good luck with this. You're right that $215 is a stretch for the average tourist, particularly with a recession on. I don't see any reason not to offer the special order prints. What can you lose by offering more options?

And what's this about being color blind?

[Walter]

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[Fox Paw]

I can't see how you ever get your color balance right in a photo.

[Walter]

I can't see how you ever get your color balance right in a photo.

Consistancy? :)

I try to shoot only outdoors. I always shoot with WB on cloudy.

Other than that, in post processing I only adjust global levels and curves.

Anything/everything else has nothing to do with color channels, hue etc. Just darkening, lightening. The magic is in the box.

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[Terri]

Best of luck - impossible to predict what will float people's boats, even in the best of times. Hopefully just getting your grandkids there to see their granddad's prints will be very rewarding for you. There is no price tag on that. :)

Here's hoping you make enough sales to feel your effort was at least worth the time. :thumbup:

Keep us posted!

[Walter]

Thanks Terri.

[MissMia]

Congratulations! I'm going to be in So Cal for a couple weeks, maybe I can swing by on my way back home. Wishing you all the best!

[Walter]

Congratulations! I'm going to be in So Cal for a couple weeks, maybe I can swing by on my way back home. Wishing you all the best!

Thanks- It's out there aways. Nice drive though.

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[Tangerini]

Sounds like you've got a great handle on everything! Congratulations and best of luck!


Is the Kelso Depot right off of I-40 or is it located more inside the preserve?

[Walter]

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[KMann]

Sounds very exciting Walter! At least you will have a show and eventually get some money, which can't hurt at all.

I find the 3 month pay period a little much. You aren't some jobber who has a catalogue of "I was here!!" buttons and penny candy, you're an artist. So, presumably your product will sell for the next three months, and at the end you will get a cheque for the lot? Or will they be sending you a cheque for stuff that sells five months from now three months from then? Odd.

I can hear the reasons now - "the computer program is set up that way and I'm sorry there is no other way to do it, no matter how sensible or urgent. Have a nice day."

Have fun at your opening! Good luck with your sales!

[Antarctican]

This is terribly exciting, Walter! You've certainly worked hard (and done a lot of driving!) to get the prints selected, printed, matted, framed etc. It's great that you've got a variety of pricing options. I hope you sell lots. :goodvibes: Well done.

[Walter]

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[Tangerini]

Thanks for all of the links! I may be traveling through that way next month. Our plans aren't quite worked out yet, but if we do end up coming back home via the I-40 I'll make an effort to check out your show!

[Walter]

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[KMann]

Walter, what a great report! Sounds sufficiently nuts to be memorable! I'm glad your friends showed up. I'm glad that the framers did you proud. Good for you! Your work is really good and you deserve a venue to show it.

The gift shop girl needs to try to do what you do in order to grow up a little bit I imagine. Best not to call her a _____ to her face though, as she's selling the work, right?

But we can all think it.

[Terri]

Very funny reporting, Walter. I've enjoyed the read. Glad everything made it there safely and is now installed - the hardest part is over and hopefully you can now relax and enjoy the rest.

Good luck!

[Walter]

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[Fox Paw]

Really enjoyed reading that and I'm wishing you success.

[Walter]

Really enjoyed reading that and I'm wishing you success.

Thank you.

I just reread the vitae I edited and resubmitted this morning to introduce the exhibit. How corny.

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[Antarctican]

http://www.the-sweep-life.com/forum/images/smilies/ctfu.gif OMG, post 17 was such an enjoyable read!!! Cracked me right up. What a wonderful start to the exhibit (heehee)

[Walter]

http://www.the-sweep-life.com/forum/images/smilies/ctfu.gif OMG, post 17 was such an enjoyable read!!! Cracked me right up. What a wonderful start to the exhibit (heehee)



Thank you.


Edit note-

I'd like to thank you all again for your support! It means a lot to me and is appreciated.

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[invisible]

So where's post #12??

Congrats, Walter, go rock the house!

[Walter]

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Congrats, Walter, go rock the house!

Thanks- Will do what I can. :)

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[Walter]

This is cool for me:

http://www.nps.gov/moja/planyourvisit/kelso-art-exhibition.htm

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[Antarctican]

Looks great to me...good choice of photograph, good information (including that prints will be for sale), and your name splashed about several times!

[Walter]

Looks great to me...good choice of photograph, good information (including that prints will be for sale), and your name splashed about several times!

Cool. I just sent them a few images and they came up with the rest. I was hoping to get a few (more like peppered) links to my sites, but I'm doing fine with what they give me from other pages. Can't get too greedy.

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[Walter]

This is cool for me:

http://www.nps.gov/moja/planyourvisit/kelso-art-exhibition.htm

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I picked up the photos last Monday. There were a lot of nice comments in the guestbook about the exhibit and some of my friends and family made it out- asking them to ask, the rangers very much enjoyed my work being shown. Unfortunately the deal was a financial let down. Some small prints sold.

To stay busy through the last two months I applied for two more shows in the spring--One at the Joshua Tree National Park Art Festival and another at the Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop, CA. If accepted, neither will be of my work exclusively, but it'd look great on my resume.

I'm going to apply again since I was asked back by the facilities director. I have a different idea for the next show and can use other photos I've taken of the Preserve that have proven popularity. I stuck with the Zzyzx location originally because I wanted to be the first to do a thorough introduction to the site.

I donated a copy of each print to the Desert Studies Center at Zzyzx, which they'll be matting, framing and putting on permanent display in the common rooms (dining, class/meeting, library) rooms at the center.

Here's a link to 22 of the 24 photos in the show, less the obnoxious poetic interpretive statements I made up for each.

http://walterfeller.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Middle-of-Nowhere/

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[KMann]

Walter, I just took a tour through your smugmug pages. Really enjoyed myself. We live in such different parts of the world.

[Walter]

Walter, I just took a tour through your smugmug pages. Really enjoyed myself. We live in such different parts of the world.

Cool. Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I really love the area. It's so strange. The SM thing I've been working on since about 2005-06. It kind of generated from a 4 year project I'm into my 14th year on;

http://digital-desert.com/

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