If you've got a home, you've got walls. And if you've got walls,
you've got space for photographs. So get some photographs
and get ready to place them on your walls.
But be forewarned. Placing
pictures on a wall can be a difficult proposition. You
need to place the pictures in the right place so it can
be viewed at comfortably at eye level by most of the
people who will be in the room. To make sure you know
how exactly where to hang a picture on a wall, we asked
Artist Pat McNulty for some advice. Pat McNulty says
that you will definitely enjoy photography in your home
more if you know how to hang pictures at the right height.
Pat is a "Professional
Photographer". Few photographers have ventured into
the world of home photography as deeply and developed
expertise in this area as effectively as Pat McNulty.
He guarantees fewer headaches and trips to the chiropractor
for failure to properly place photographs on the wall.
And so he has come
up with the following advice:
- select a picture.
- select a frame.
- find a wall.
- Stand up about four feet
away from the wall with the frame held so your eyes
look at the middle of the picture. Walk toward the
wall. Hit the wall with the frame and picture. This
is the right height for standing pictures. Mark the
wall with a pencil at this height.
- Sit down in a chair across
the room, hold up the picture, at eye level, then shuffle
across the floor holding the picture at this level,
no higher, no lower, until you hit the wall. This is
the right place for sitting pictures. Mark the wall
with a pencil at this height. Now you need to get them
to stay on the wall. You do this so that they will
stay where you put them and can be seen when you either
are standing or sitting.
So get a nail and a hammer
and follow the instructions that came with the frame.
If there were no instructions, Pat operates a home photography
hotline. So give him a call or send him an e-mail message
and ask him about how to nail a picture to a wall.
If you don't have any idea
what to put on your walls, you can get the help you need
at Pat's web site www.premierphotographer.com which
offers some of the finest home photography available
online. You can reach Pat McNulty via e-mail at webmaster@premierphotographer.com