As an ancient citizen who grew up in the black and white darkroom era, and who worked, both at a pro lab, and in my own darkroom for a very long time, I tried to embrace inkjet printing as soon as possible. Ah, there was the great potential for excellent black and white prints that could compare with black and white fiber prints. In the darkroom, if I can remember that far back, my paper [more]
Following up with the previous post about street photography and what sells, I would add one caveat: there’s a big difference between what is sellable in a book, or as a web image, compared to the print that’s sold for the living room wall. Even a ebook is still essentially a private experience. But once you hang a print on a wall, you are making some sort of declaration about yourself and your taste, and [more]
PART II. OKAY THE SUSPENSE IS OVER. But the image that has NEVER SOLD (drum roll if you please) is: PHOTO 6 (the couple on Parisian moving sidewalk). The other picture which may have sold once, I’m not really sure about that is the Taste of Snow shot. Reason: the teenage girl’s face is not an abstraction. See rule #3. The two best selling shot from that collection: Crossing Brooklyn Bridge and Wall Street [more]
Well you know, Google is in competition with Facebook. And they’ve introduced the +1 button. It’s pretty new, but it’s the same idea as the Facebook Like button except that you’ll see the numbers (I think, I guess) in search results or maybe in your Google profile. I can’t say that I fully understand it other than that suppose you were looking through search results and saw that some result had a whole bunch of [more]
First off, sales have increased since I began doing my own printing again. The reason seems to be that potential and previous customers want a personal print experience. I can understand that. It means that I’m back in the printing and packaging business again, but I’m not complaining because frankly – I was close to falling from the financial precipice. I’ve also stopped doing matting as that was time consuming and made packaging more complex. [more]
After breaking with Fotomoto, I installed the Paypal Simple Plugin, and with a bit of coding it was working fine. You can see it on any of the single buy pages. But then I wanted to get fancy, and downloaded the WordPress e-Commerce Plugin. You know, it was fancier with lots and lots of options. I got greedy. So I uploaded it (it was probably the largest plugin I ever uploaded) and turned it on [more]
It’s hard for me to say good bye to Fotomoto for many reasons. They have been great to work with. And they took a lot of menial work off the table. But I’ve been studying my earnings year over-year and although it isn’t completely conclusive, my net income is down about 35% since I went to Fotomoto in January 2011 over the previous six months in 2010. There are two obvious reasons for this: first [more]
I did a test book of my Central Park photographs with Blurb.com on May 3rd. Books arrived today. Here’s a recap of what I ordered: I Left the Blurb Logo on the back to save money since this is a test book. You can have it replaced with your own logo for about $4. And then ordered three copies on different papers: 1) plain paper (whatever that is) 2) Lustre paper and 3) Pearl Proline [more]
[This is a re-post of an interview with photographer Alain Briot] Ty sent me two video interviews with photographer Alain Briot which are on the business of photography and are spot on. The second one in particular is almost a perfect checklist of how to sell photographs on the web. Now when I say perfect checklist, what I mean is that most of what he says I have either thought about doing or have done. [more]
Pricing images on the web can be very tricky. Especially if you are selling to art buyers, or doing physical gallery shows. If you do a physical gallery show, your costs are much higher than if you sell through the web. You must pay a percentage, maybe 40% or more of the physical gallery sale to the gallery. They need to make money. Plus, the work and materials are more costly since you’ll need to [more]
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