Level & Tap

I love photography and I love it printed.

Originally, I started Level & Tap as a fun way to sell a few of my prints online, but shortly after I launched it I realized I couldn’t post enough photos to have people keep coming back to the site. There’s only so many of my photos I felt would look good printed, and I wanted to keep the quality of the site high.

It was quickly apparent that the best way to solve that problem would be to start bringing in other photographers to help them easily sell their own photos.

So, over the past month I’ve been spending a lot of my free time retooling the site, talking to other fantastic photographers, and working with my good friend Laura Brunow Miner to get the new site launched. She’s been unbelievably helpful in talking with some incredible photographers and is curating the first, of hopefully many series for the site, Transition.

I’m really excited about the site and the potential exposure for all photographers to sell their work. Level & Tap is now a gallery for photography prints currated by some of my friends and me. I’m hopeful that people will see the value in their work, purchase their prints, or subscribe to the feeds and Twitter accounts to check in on the new photos being added.

The site is built with Savoy, Jeff Croft’s yet to be released open source set of Django apps. Using it, I’m able to easily currate photos from various photographers and offer them as prints. Once they are on the site it’s just a simple bit of PayPal integration and the purchase is complete. I still have to process each order manually, but if things start to grow, I’m hoping for some API integration with a printer later. Right now, I’m using Mpix and couldn’t be happier with their quality, but they currently don’t offer a way for me to integrate directly with thier site.

If you’re interested in buying a few prints, just head on over and start browsing. If you’re a photographer and would like to have your photos listed on the site let me know over on the contact form, or request an invitation to the Level & Tap Flickr group. Just be sure to read the submission guidelines to make sure you’re able to list your photos.