ryan_bolger

<p>http://www.ryanjbolger.com</p>

<p>Very nice thank you all for the your wonderful feedback....I shall try all of the steps each of your suggested....I can't wait to start exploring and experimenting with it.. Pumped to start having some printing fun</p>

<p>So I just picked one up and want to experiment with it. I'm having a problem with the print heads. I've gone through the cleaning cycles and did a couple of "Deep Cleanings" on it and still prints are coming out goofy. What do you rec? Anyone have this printer? if so how is it?</p>

<p>Well Robert & Matthew, Thanks. I'll take what I want from it and learn and make the proper edits to the site. Thanks for calling my work "Stuff" and thanks for telling me you wouldn't hire me. It does nothing but only want to prove you wrong and become better. Thanks for the steam to power my dream. I'll make it.I think a lot of times people are too to technical in their feedback just because they want to sound smart and or feel better. Ciao.Thanks for playing. Truly it does mean a lot. Thank you</p>

<p>Thanks for the feedback Matt & Joseph. I kindly made all of those changes.</p>

<p>I'm in the process of updating my website and work. I just wanted to get some opinions as to how it makes other people feel. I would really appreciate it if you spent some time and gave me some feed back. Feel free to check out my "Blog" as well for there is a ton of work featured on there that is not on my my website.I look forward to hearing from you. http://www.rjbimagery.com</p>

<p>Great advice Luis thank you very much. I agree I want to appeal to all people with budgets small and large.</p>

<p>Tom- I thank you for your wonderful and grand advice. Yes,A total beach town. I agree. I'm going to have a widescreen computer screen running a solid slide show. I'm also going to have a couple very nice digital frames running both Landscape and Urban shows as well. I was even thinking maybe a station for with an IPAD so people can easily browse images that aren't going to be on the walls. Just to make it a little more interactive and bright ya know. The area does have a Chamber of Commerce and also a County Visitor Center with a gallery in it and I will have a couple images in there. I will also talk to them about linking a website of info about my gallery on their website. I agree about having work that will sell. It's totally my vision to showcase the local landscapes. It truly is in a beautiful place. The Indiana National Lakeshore is stunning and filled with wonderful beaches,sand dunes, and great visuals. The locals and visitors love that kind of stuff. I have a bunch of work capturing those landscapes and those will hang on the walls along with the best of the best of my Landscape work. The space is two levels. The street level which I'm going to be showcasing Landscapes of bold colors and black and white in prints of all kinds. And the the lower level will be all Urban. The location especially in the summer is a huge hot spot for Chicagoans and I think it will be a great market. I'll work out the price. The fun part will be once I'm open finding out what people really like, want, and want to purchase. I'm sure I'll find a good starting price. Once I have all my work in my hands on my walls then I think it will be a lot easier to decide a price. I'm going to be offering Prints large and small wide and tall so I hope to cover a wide range of demographics and income levels. Thank you once again. And I shall keep you posted. I also have to so a lot of updating to my website. I have a lot more stronger work that needs to be on there. Life is all about living dreams. I hope that one day it all works out for you Tom.</p>

<p>Awesome Tony thanks buddy. It's all good Tony honesty is integrity. I would much rather have someone tell me my work isn't solid then to have someone lie and tell me they like it. I value people's opinions on my work and how I can get better. I do have a facebook account both personal and a Photography Fan Page. I also have a lot of work that is not on my website or blog. I'm going to be updating my website and critiquing better and stronger so that hopefully what is left is nothing but the strongest. And I will only continue to go out and shoot as much as I can. The beauty of being a photographer is that I'm sure you will agree every time we go out we get better. I've been working up a solid following and I only hope it grows. An image of mine was published in the sunday Chicago Sun Times recently so that always helps. I've been written up in newspaper a few times and have been featured on the radio a couple times. I just enabled a print store on my website so people can buy my work. I need to market it better and get it out there in the world. But first I have to update all the work and take some down that I no longer feel cut it. I'm a hound for information especially when it comes to photography. I will scour the web for more information on how to get better. Knowledge is key. I totally agree with you on what you said about "it's always surprising what people want vs what you might think is good" I have tens of thousands of Images. I just want to get some of them out there for the people to enjoy. So I can continue to do what I love most. Thanks for all of your great info.</p>

<p>Tony do you have any advice on trying to sell on the web?</p>

<p>Thank you for your advice. It means a lot. I'm determined to make it work. I respect your opinion. I really do. I like the look. I'm sorry technically is doesn't please you. But I will use your opinion to look deeply into what Im doing and push to get better. Thanks Tony</p>

<p>I totally agree with you. I had this very long conversation with another gallerists last night and we talked for hours about it. It's going to be my work, not other artist's work in my gallery. I'm a man of the people. Fine Art cool Photography for people's homes and offices and whatever they want without the Fine Art Price. But I still don't want to sell myself short. I mean I feel I shoot quality work just because I care a great deal about what I do and take it with pride to be the best I can be and get better. I'll figure it out. I'll test things out It's always been the hardest thing for me to price my own work. I've taken the time and sacrificed a lot to decide to make this my thing. And in some other galleries I go into a person who one day picks up a camera photographs a flower prints it up and frames it tries to sell an 8x10 for 200.00 with no professional or education experience. Ya know? I worked really hard to have my name have a value to it. And I hope my work emits a quality to it. I just want to make sure I respect all my hard work I've put into my thing the last 10 years and into the future.</p>

<p>Thank you Alan. I really appreciate your advice. I have done that. I'm not so worried about the expenses of keeping the gallery open as I am of creditability and being respected as a passionate creative hard working person. ya know. Basically I want it to be a hit and i know it will be. It will be very unique and original. But my frustrations comes to decide on sell fairly low for all people or sell high and market it to a certain type of people. Ya know. Should I start High and work low if I have to? I mean I guess it's better then starting low and going high ya know</p>

<p>So I am opening up my own fine art Landscape and Urban photography gallery. My initial vision was for it to be more like a print store. A ton of Great Photography blown up printed on metallic Paper and then displayed on Gatorfoam. Small prints from 5x7 to vary large prints of 24x36 and also 5x30 panoramics. I like the simpleness and the look of the Metallic prints on Gatorfoam or foam core. I'm torn on how to price my work. I want everyone to be able to purchase my work. I don't want to be too low and come off as cheap. But I don't want to be super Fine Art and price to high. However, over the past 10 years I have put my all into my photography. I went through Columbia College Chicago and The Brooks Institute of Photography. Photography is my life. It's not just my passion. I work hard and I only continue to get stronger and better. I have a nitch because there is no other photography galleries anywhere around where my gallery will be. Any adivice. For what it's worth the gallery is going to be in a beach town that gets very very busy in the summer and it's 1 hour from downtown Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan. I mean I know I'm not on Peter Lik's level, not yet but I hope and aspire to be one day. There is another Photographer who has a gallery on Michigan Ave in Chicago named Cesar Russ and he sells great photography prints printed on cotton paper for prices that don't break wallets you know. I like that Idea. What do you think? Any advice would be very much appreciated. I look forward to your comments.</p>

<p>Thank you all so very much for the advice. I will scope out all of the wonderful links and see what I like and what I need and what the best way of going about it would be. I am going to start printing a ton of landscape and urban work, So I am trying to find out the best way to go about doing it. I might just buy my own printer. I own a canon printer already for small prints up to 8x10. I may just upgrade to print bigger and better. I will also scope out various outlets as far as Labs go. Has anyone ever used WHCC? If so, How do you like them? It's a toss up. But I am leaning towards more of purchasing my own professional printer to maybe go as big as 16x20 maybe even larger. I think panoramic would be a great thing as well. Any suggestions? I Like canon but I have used Epson in the past and am very pleased with their results. I look forward to hearing your great input. Thank you very much</p>

<p>So I am in the process of scoping out some printing companies and or printers to buy to print have my work professionally printed. I was curious to know if anyone out there can give me any of their thoughts of printing companies that maybe they use. I would love to print on various kinds of paper either cotton,canvas, and all of the various others. I would like to print both small and big. I am looking for great quality of product and good customer service. I am open to suggestions of printers to buy as well. Either way I am looking for the best way to go about having my work professionally printed that will make clients say "WOW". Thank you so very much and I look forward to your suggestions and input. It will be very much appreciated. Thank you.</p>

<p>So I always update my website and blog with new work and work that I have never shown before. If you enjoy city and landscape photography check out my website. I would love to know your thoughts. You can also follow the action on twitter and facebook if you would like. Either way I hope you enjoy the work and that it may inspire you in some wonderful way. http://www.rjbimagery.com</p>

<p> That is a very cool frame. Thanks for the words Jeff and Tony</p>

<p>Well all I can say is that I'll be sure to write with pride from this moment forward. Life is all about lessons and how we learn from them. Your post did make me realize that I should carry myself to the best of my ability. I would like to be known and remembered as a man who cared. How can I care if I'm not being the best I know I can be in every way? Right? Writing is an art as I'm sure you know you already know. Like how there is an art to conversation with speech. It's just another way to express yourself. Hahaha I wonder who is going to have the last remark on this thread. I hope nothing but the best Mr. Peterson. Honestly I am a peacegiver not a fighter even I am Irish. I save my fight for for battle of life not war.</p>

<p>Thank you Ben for the great very informative link</p>

 

 

<p>Why Thank you Mr. Peterson what are you a Professor @ Harvard? I guess you have nothing better to do then to be a Rude Old Man or is that what you do? My blog is not a blog about being a master of writing. It's about photography. All I was doing was asking for your thoughts and advice and Yeah you gave them to me and I thank you for them really. Perhaps you are a kind of guy that doesn't have a heart. It sure seems like it to me. Would you laugh in a homeless person's face on a cold snowy windy day when he asks you for a nickel for a cup a joe? It's alright it's quite alright if you would that's your problem. I guess you are opinionated and that's great it's your right to be. Do you think you have all the answers and know it all? See the sad thing is let's say one day I'm walking down Market street in San Francisco and I'm holding the door for an elderly lady with a walker who is shopping by herself. You are the guy who couldn't care less and you rush through the same door and you don't even look back. The lady falls to the ground breaks her ankle. I see all of it happen right before my eyes. I drive her to the hospital find out her name is Betty and she has 5 kids and 12 grandchildren. She lives in Modesto and rode a bus just to walk the streets of San Francisco. She likes to relive her younger days and go to the pier and think about the day she met her husband there 50 years earlier. Her husband passed away in the spring time due to a battle with cancer.Where are you? You are in the check out line with a couple of TV dinners and a Handle of Scottish Clan Whiskey and the only thing you can think about is what's on channel 7 @ 9 O'clock. I'm not mad or upset from your remarks Mr. Peterson. I don't know you and I most likely will never meet you. All I ask is Where is your Heart? Do you have one? or are you going to reply back explaining all of the grammar mistakes you found in this post just so you can feel like you are right?</p>

 

 

<p>sorry for my grammar above I rushed it and did not look it over</p>

<p>Check it again Zane sorry for my grammar maybe I should pay more attention to it. I guess I should write the way I was taught through years of private schooling by very tedious and great teachers. The whole texting culture and way of life has taken a toll on my writing hahaha. Thank for your advice. </p>

<p>It all sounds good to me al of the advice puts thing into perspective for me thank you very much.I will keep researching and I will always shoot. You get what you put into right? I know if I focus I and work work work and keep pushing myself creatively something good will happen.Thank you Tony for your in depth advice and helpful suggestions</p>

<p>~Tony thanks for you advice. <br>

~Greg - I agree I've been looking into the idea of being able to sell my work online through my website. everything totally professionally done. Frames.Matted, signed Prints I've been doing a lot of research. I guess I just want to take my "Brand" if you will to the masses for their enjoyment but I also want to be able to make money as well. I'm not in it for the money trust me but I do want to make a living doing what I love to do.</p>