Photo Exhibition Help!

[kneeshooter]

I've been invited to put some photos into a small exhbition in Shropshire - proving it's not "what you do" but "who you know". So, I'm after some suggestions of what are my most saleable pieces - to a general rather than muso audience.

So, I need help from all my friends list in picking out four pieces that might both show off what I can do, and what might sell.

Help!
Please!?

Comments

[ikkleblacktruck.livejournal.com]

Will this make you officially an exhibitionist? ;P

[kneeshooter]

Was that supposed to be helpful? :-P

[satellite-kid.livejournal.com]

bdum- tshhhhh

mwahahahaha

[boglin.livejournal.com]

Pretty young girls not wearing much clothing or dramatic landscapes, I reckon.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Which is more important from this exhibition, selling the print, or selling what you can do.

(Actual choices will probably have to wait until I get home and can look at strange images on a computer monitor, which I really shouldn't in a big open plan office)

[kneeshooter]

Good question - in this case - selling the print. It's a "local artists thing" rather than an industry/commissioning showcase.

Suggestion...

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/images/outandabout/00portfolio/CRW_3752.jpg

It's (IMHO) your best landscape on the site, it's interesting, provocative and artistic and yet in no way is it too "niche" or avant-garde for the type of show you describe...

Good luck, and I'm not jealous at all... honest... ;-)

Re: Suggestion...

[kneeshooter]

Good suggestion. I'll think about it, but suspect the landlocked Shropshire might not be the best place for coastal shots.

I think I'll have to face the reality that I've just not got many decent suitable landscapes. I might go "twee" and dig out some of my Shropshire-English-Heritage photos.

[invisible-al.livejournal.com]

This one of the violinist on the South Bank it's a great photo.

[kneeshooter]

I do like that one. Not sure of the wider appeal though.

I think I'll ransack my "people" rather than "music" portfolio for my shortlist.

[stuartmaher.livejournal.com]

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/images/lrp/pd/reckonings/CRW_2936.jpg

Your best pic in my book!

admittedly my book is both thin and lacking a chapter on good photography

[kneeshooter]

Go for the "beardy-larper" audience?

Did you get my email btw?

[irdm.livejournal.com]

Now if a free set of darts came with the print.......

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Mmmm Had forgotten about that one - you are right, it's one helluva portrait...

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I liked the stained-glass ones quite a lot.

[kneeshooter]

Ok. I suspect, like the English Heritage ones, that might contravene the "personal use only" for photographs in the museum - however I'll do some test prints and see how they look.

Thanks

My votes

[laurah1893.livejournal.com]

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/images/outandabout/00portfolio/CRW_3752.jpg

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/images/outandabout/00portfolio/CRW_3755.jpg

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/images/music/qa_whitby_apr05/CRW_7787-200.jpg

Re: My votes

[kneeshooter]

Cheers :-)

[satellite-kid.livejournal.com]

A few of my personal faves:

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/portfolio-people.php

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/portfolio-places.php

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/portfolio-places.php

http://www.disturbing.org.uk/portfolio-music.php?imager=images/music/00portfolio/CRW_8146.jpg

[kneeshooter]

The top three aren't specific links - but let's face it that Gary Numan photo has to be up there in the top photos I've taken.

Numan

[laurah1893.livejournal.com]

Yeah that picture is awesome. I hadn't seen that one before!

[sixtine.livejournal.com]

Haven't spent any time looking but the only one which springs to mind as something really super was the marble shot I said I liked. Will look at another time though - S's b'd today so taking him out for the night in 10 mins.