Considering selling wet prints

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Hi guys :)

I am considering selling wet prints in order to afford in a "candid photo " voyage to liverpool and belfast in september :eek:

I would like to know if you have any advice about it, I think selling a 17 x 24 cm (7 x 9,5 inches) for 45 € shipping fees excluded.
I can make wider prints : 30 x 40 cm and 40 x 50 cm
Every print would be home made (of course, it is wet prints :D ) on ilford multigrade IV FB fiber
So what picture would I print ? All the one on my website and my flickr

What is your opinion about the prices, do you think people would be interested ?

Thanks for giving me your advice ;)
 
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I don't know about prices- they seem quite reasonable to me but I am a mere dilettante! But I think you might do well. Your pictures are great.
 
my goal is just to pay my boat and train ticket, the food and films for this film, not making my life with those prints :D
The idea is that people give me the url (on my site or flickr) of the picture they want :)
I think the best way for paying is using paypal :)

Of course, if somebody wants a print of his pictures, I can do it, same price , just provide me the neg :)
 
You should definitely demand money for the photograph itself, not just the work you put into the print.

40 Euro really does seem reasonable, in Berlin I've rarely seen (framed) prints for less than 100 Euros, but I as well have no clue.

martin
 
yes but I will have to sell it so I prefer not to frame it ( dont want that the buyer get a picture destroyed buy a broken glass )

30 x 40 cm should be 75 € and 40 x50 cm 100, seems a fair price no ?

anybody interested ?
 
Unless you have one serious and aggressive marketing plan AND the right fotos you will be hitchhiking to Belfast. Even many of the greats --such as Ralph Gibson and Ansel Adams had long years before selling anything. In dealing with the buying public you'll need to square away the lingo too. For instance your "homemade" photographs should be referred to as hand crafted. If they are simply "homemade" people will expect them cheap.

At the Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, their prints range from 4x5 to 30x40 inches. Marketing and business plans take time to develop and input from those familiar with the market.

Good luck.
 
maybe, I just need to sell between 10 and 20 prints , I am not desesperatd (i am looking also for some job for the summer, but as you might guesse, this year it is not very easy :( )
 
I think some of you are being fairly miserable. Sure it is very hard, but everyone has to start somewhere. Other photogs DO buy prints if they like them and they are reasonably priced. BUT they do have to be good images, printed to a very high standard, nicely finished (spotting perfect etc) and very affordable. I think it is a good idea if you can put forward strong images and charge reasonably for them. It won't make a fortune but it might make enough to subsidise a trip or at least cover shooting costs. There are quite a few avenues available for modestly priced images and one has to start somewhere. I did and I did not make a fortune, but I did sell images for a fair bit more than is being asked here. I then spent the next six years trying to hone my skills so I can hopefully sell them for a lot more than that - years spent doing things tht pay the bills - but it will take another half decade to make the next stage happen. If it happens. You have to sart somewhere and that includes all the difficulties (and sometimes failures) that go with it. Its a learning experience and I have expereinced first hand how bloody hard it is, but impossible it is not. If the goals are modest, like these, the likelihood of success is much greater...
 
I was going to start a thread about why no one buys prints any more. I'm not talking about art prints, either. I shoot lots of kids theater and music events. My shots are much better than anything a parent could do. I rarely sell anything. In fact, in about 2 years I've sold a total of $227 of prints. I know people are looking at lots of them, because I get a hit count from Smugmug. Why don't people buy prints any more?

/T
 
Yes, I think the marketing end is the most difficult, but if anyone lets that discourage them, they will never even start. If one is committed, you find a way to make things happen. I think the OP is talented and can find a market, but it will take some work.
 
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I think some of you are being fairly miserable. Sure it is very hard, but everyone has to start somewhere. Other photogs DO buy prints if they like them and they are reasonably priced. BUT they do have to be good images, printed to a very high standard, nicely finished (spotting perfect etc) and very affordable. I think it is a good idea if you can put forward strong images and charge reasonably for them. It won't make a fortune but it might make enough to subsidise a trip or at least cover shooting costs. There are quite a few avenues available for modestly priced images and one has to start somewhere. I did and I did not make a fortune, but I did sell images for a fair bit more than is being asked here. I then spent the next six years trying to hone my skills so I can hopefully sell them for a lot more than that - years spent doing things tht pay the bills - but it will take another half decade to make the next stage happen. If it happens. You have to sart somewhere and that includes all the difficulties (and sometimes failures) that go with it. Its a learning experience and I have expereinced first hand how bloody hard it is, but impossible it is not. If the goals are modest, like these, the likelihood of success is much greater...
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thanks for your advise :)
 
Collectors mostly want prints by "name" photographers. It's only after they become a well known collector that they're likely to take a chance on buying an unknown. It's not just wall decoration, it's an investment. How many shows have you had or been part of? Do you have a gallery representing you? Have you had any write-ups in the newspaper or regional magazines?

What social circles do you travel in?

"Rich people will pay more money than poor people for the same item or service."

"Rich people will pay more money to another rich person than a poor person for the same item or service."
 
Gelatin Silver

Gelatin Silver

In art circles nobody calls them "Wet Prints". They refer to them as "gelatin silver" or "silver gelatin" prints.

Now that resin coated paper (usually called "RC") has been around for thirty years or so and proven that they really do hold up quite well over time there's been a greater acceptance of RC prints. Some collectors don't seem to care anymore.
 
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