Do you sell your photos?

[pesphoto]

ive sold a few from my website, even one to a publisher for a book cover. BUt its not really a goal for me...selling my photos.

 

[oscroft]

Hi Memphis,

if I go down with 100 copies @ $20 --- I'll be sold out in a few hours- -- if I raise the price to $30 , it might be pushing my market thin

I've just been looking at your other thread and at the site for your book, and if it's as good as people are saying it is I think $20 is way too cheap.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

OF course, ultimately it matters whether or not you are selling. And you can get into an indepth discussion on marketing etc. But for the purposes of this poll question, I have defined "yes" as intent, or effort to sell. This leaves room for those who don't make a living off of their photos, as well as those early on in their efforts.

Posts are hard to word at 5:00 in the morning, I don't know what time it is in Indiana but I don't know how you do it.

It was 5am when I wrote. I was up late editing one of my photos in Photoshop! I do that pretty regularly. I get deeply involved in work and forget that I have stayed up all night. I just got out of bed...it is noon now. I can do that since I don't have a 'real job'. I don't make much money yet, I'm actually rather poor, but I am free. This weekend my son is coming to stay with me, I'll be on a more conventional schedule then because he likes to get up EARLY!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I said yes but in reallity I've only been paid for digital files ... does that count?

Yes. I sell more of those than prints; I sell them as 'stock photos' to people who are going to use them for things like CD covers and for ads. Those buyers need files, not prints, since everything today is laid out in InDesign or Quark on a computer. They don't want prints cause they'd have to scan them to make a usable file.