One Photo: Flower(s)

I would like to ask my partners to send me real photos, if possible in mate paper. I'll do the same for my swap partners.

Hey there, craftywitchygirl--I really believe in artist's choice/sender's choice for swaps like this, so it's really up to your partners what they're going to send to you. I wouldn't want people to feel pressured to meet a recipient's preferences for this swap, though I'm thinking of setting up a photography swap in the future where the recipient does get to specify what kind of photograph they'd like to receive....

hi! looking forward to this swap! i love taking pictures! i think i have a million pics to fill this requirement already!

for mine, i wouldnt mind whether i receive them online or in the mail, and if people are in the UK (like me, i shall send out a real pic) otherwise it will be online!

ps, i am also holding a photograph swap, this one is email only so no costs involved! please join my swap, its the first one im hosting and i want it to go well!!

http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/20226

please spread the word and make my day!

Hello, MJjunkie86--I'm a bit confused about your comment. For this flower photo swap, the photo has to be sent in the mail, not online, even if you have a partner in another country.

I sure hope MJjunkie got your message beckra...its pointless to send photos through email. I certainly want mine by snail mail. That's why I'm so in for this!!

yeah yeah dont worry josietai i got the message! this reply confused me "Hey there, craftywitchygirl--I really believe in artist's choice/sender's choice for swaps like this, so it's really up to your partners what they're going to send to you. I wouldn't want people to feel pressured to meet a recipient's preferences for this swap, though I'm thinking of setting up a photography swap in the future where the recipient does get to specify what kind of photograph they'd like to receive...." coz the original question had said "I would like to ask my partners to send me real photos" and i assumed the reply was to that bit, as opposed to the bit that said "possible in mate paper"

so you can see why i thought it was either snail or email

In my response to craftywitchygirl I was trying to suggest that one couldn't expect a partner to honor her request for a matte print.

By "sender's choice" I meant the sender gets to decide what particular photo to send (whether it is digitally altered, printed on glossy paper or matte, a Polaroid or a black-and-white, etc., etc.). But how it's sent isn't sender's choice in that we'll all be sending photos through the mail. I'm sorry if I confused folks. Hopefully the swap description (which I tinkered with a bit) makes it all clear now.

I do think, though, that we're all on the same page now, which is good!

can we send the same picture to all 3 partners? what was everyone else planning on doing?

Hello, crispy! It's up to you: you could send the same picture to all 3 partners, or you could choose to send a different one to each.

hi, love this swap!

what do you think about adding some info about the photo (eg. a daisy photographed in my garden august 2008...)

something like that.. what do you think? ..no stress.

Thanks for the suggestion, marionjoy! If people want to include a note saying a bit about the flower (what it is, and where they took the photo), I think that would be great. But since a good number of folks have now signed up without my making that a required part of the swap, I don't want to change it at this point. My guess is that most people will write something like that in any case, but--like you say, marionjoy--I don't want anyone to feel stressed out. :)

My photo lab at the drug store said that matte prints are only available for film, not digital images. Does this make sense?

goldfish--it makes sense only because the machines they print the digital images out on usually only have glossy paper in them. The films get sent out to a photo lab where they can put rolls of film into either a matte or glossy machine to develop and print.

Online printshops can give you a choice though, I use EZPrints.com and have had many terrific prints from my digital pictures, or scans of old photographs.

Cyn

Question--Can the photos be sent as postcards or do they have to be in an envelope?

Cyn

Hello, Cyn! I had written "in an envelope" in the swap description when I originally posted the swap, so I think I'll keep it that way. I hope you don't mind!

Hello, goldfish--

I have a situation similar to what you & Cyn mention: if I order my digital prints at a local lab, they'll only do glossy because that's the paper they have. But when I order them from winkflash.com, I get a choice of glossy or matte. I have to wait a bit longer for them to arrive through the mail, but sometimes it's worth it because I think that some of my shots look better in matte....

Thanks for the tips, Beckra and 2Bluecrows! Matte looks a lot more professional and I thought I was out of luck!

What a great swap... thanxx