Tim Hammond wrote:
A hip young California photographer told me this morning that "real pros in the industry" don't worry about prints any more, because everyone buying images accepts digital.

Three tell-tale parts there:

young
real pros
and 
everyone

The way I read this is 'I've decided that I'm so young and hip that whatever I perceive as reality, is.'  But who knows, maybe he has come up with a 'totally rockin' way to hang cds on the wall.

Whatever...

R

Eric Foltz wrote:
.. most publications never accepted prints to begin with, most used slides.

Oh, back in the olden days color meant chromes (slides), and B&W meant prints.  I've never delivered color prints, and as a matter fact, I've never shot color negs unless a tourist handed me a camera to photograph her with.

Everything I've delivered for print use since 2002 have been scans.  That last holdout was (NotOnly)Black+White, the Aussie mag.  They wanted chromes, then (sorta) screwed up the drum scans.

-Don

Tim Hammond wrote:
Anyone (besides podunk art photographers like me) still making, mounting, and framing your own prints?

Oh hell yeah. But I'm a small-city art photographer, a close relative. It would be hard for me to care less about the runway and all that jazz. For myself, it's all about the end result being a print. In a frame. Hanging on a wall (preferably someone else's).

Tim Hammond wrote:
A hip young California photographer told me this morning that "real pros in the industry" don't worry about prints any more, because everyone buying images accepts digital.  I find that hard to believe.  Anyone (besides podunk art photographers like me) still making, mounting, and framing your own prints?

The only thing that has changed is that you can advertise prints while having a zero inventory.  When someone orders your 16x20 print you process their order, open file, print, mount, frame, ship.  All that without having to make them wait weeks for you to take it somewhere to ahve it enlarged, blah blah blah.  Tell that hip guy he's a tool.

Star wrote:
I live down the street from a great frame store, people all over CA send their stuff to her. But I have no money...

Charge up front.  That way you use the buyer's money.

Ivan123 wrote:
A "photograph" is, to me, an object, something that you can hold in your hand.  It should contain silver.  Or palladium if you are lucky.

Or platinum if you're rich. ;-)

Dogbone Alt-Process wrote:

Or platinum if you're rich. ;-)

Or a PT/PD mixture if you're thrifty and don't print it before it's paid for.

Tim Hammond wrote:
A hip young California photographer told me this morning that "real pros in the industry" don't worry about prints any more

Allow me to translate...

"Hip young California photographer" = Clueless kid with a camera who took some classes as USC.

"Real pros in the industry" = Noone the clueless kid has ever actually met.