really?

Only the buyers can answer your question
and as for him possibly being arrogant - well you need to get to know him to find out..:)
 
Without seeing the photos in question, or knowing how many were sold, one is unable to comment on a factual basis. Sometimes a photograph one might consider simple will appeal to people if it's a photo of their area. An example might be a nearby landscape that is popular with the locals. Where I live a boring photo of a sailboat might sell whereas the world's greatest street photo probably wont.

Ego -- some people take it as being confident, others as being arrogant. My experience is most find it annoying. However, everyone needs enough of it to get out of bed in the morning and go about their daily chores.

Farmer's markets. Want to sell photos? Print them on potatoes. You can print a photo of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich and sell for thousands on eBay. My point is, I doubt a farmer's market is an ideal location for selling things that aren't edible. Unless of course the photos are farm and food related.

Why did I bother to write this reply? I have no idea. :)
 
NY_Dan said:
Without seeing the photos in question, or knowing how many were sold, one is unable to comment on a factual basis. Sometimes a photograph one might consider simple will appeal to people if it's a photo of their area. An example might be a nearby landscape that is popular with the locals. Where I live a boring photo of a sailboat might sell whereas the world's greatest street photo probably wont.

Ego -- some people take it as being confident, others as being arrogant. My experience is most find it annoying. However, everyone needs enough of it to get out of bed in the morning and go about their daily chores.

Farmer's markets. Want to sell photos? Print them on potatoes. You can print a photo of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich and sell for thousands on eBay. My point is, I doubt a farmer's market is an ideal location for selling things that aren't edible. Unless of course the photos are farm and food related.

Why did I bother to write this reply? I have no idea. :)
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yes, annoying fits…i liked some of the photos but found him annoying…to be honest mostly because he was not like me…i have a hard time accepting a compliment on my stuff…
pretentious fits in here as well…i try to keep things simple and when 'selling' oneself as an artist it always sounds pretentious to me, no matter who is doing the selling.
perhaps i need an improved ego...
 
i have mentored countless aspiring photographers and only one has passed the stage where they want to be a photographer, see themselves as a photographer or dream of being a photographer. to be honest, i stopped teaching and all related activities as it was beyond frustrating, this limited success.

i understand your curiosity with the 'unique' moniker Joe. the bigger lesson, in my opinion, is that he is out trying to sell and promote the work. very few folks, after spending gobsmacking amount of $ on college programs, can proceed past this very simple step. the greater lot of them are still waiting for the perfect opportunity to seek them out.

NY_Dan said:
Where I live a boring photo of a sailboat might sell whereas the world's greatest street photo probably wont.
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i reckon this is a global trend. the amount of art funding and community support that goes towards some of the most banal work around, in my neck of the woods, is maddening.
 
Sales 101, presenting yourself with confidence instills confidence in your product.

Typically those swap spots range from 50-100+$, so if you see him again, he must be selling something.
 
I'm not what my friends would call an overly optimistic person, but I'm very disappointed by the negative tone on this post. To my mind, it's unseemly to make such comments about someone merely because you don't like their work.

Don't like it? Don't buy it...no one's forcing you to look at it.

This guy is out there, working to sell his images. Even if they *are* horrible (and that's a meaningless term, since it's subjective) I respect him for that much.

Besides -- you don't know his story. Maybe he's a retiree and this is a pasttime that keeps him active and gives him something to look forward to each morning.
Maybe he was laid off from a job, or had a tragedy in his life and this small humble sideline is a vital source of income to help him survive.

I don't suppose anyone's thought of that, have they?

Please be a bit more compassionate before you hit the "Post Quick Reply" button.
 
colin, have you read the thread?
just in case you're talking about me…i never said i didn't like his work, in fact, i said the opposite.
for me it's all about his writing that is stuff is unique when, to me, it wasn't…at all.
i wonder how we delude ourselves into believing something that is not true…was it his truth or just marketing speak?
 
I try to be a bit more realistic about my work.
So if I had to try and sell it it would go by:
"I think I'm taking pictures a bit better than average. I'm an ok photographer with nothing really revolutionary about my vision. Would you buy some picture?"

Or maybe what is written there shouldn't be taken at face value. He's trying to SELL ;-)

BTW, have you read the verbose on the wall of some AAAArt exhibition?
 
back alley said:
…very true.

sometimes i look at my stuff and i think I'm pretty good.
other times i look and see just plain crap.
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Joe you are unique, unless you have a twin brother.;) Someone else stated the man was overconfident. I don't see anything wrong with that, especially when compared to being "very little confidence" which I sometimes see in myself. If one has a bit of talent, which you do. Build confidence & uniqueness if you feel yourself lacking & jump in the boat.
 
for marketing purposes i would go with something like bill pierce said in one of his posts here…(paraphrase), 'i saw something today that i would like to share with you'…keeps the pretention down.
 
back alley said:
for marketing purposes i would go with something like bill pierce said in one of his posts here…(paraphrase), 'i saw something today that i would like to share with you'…keeps the pretention down.
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Let the product speak for itself. Hey you won't know til you put it out there. I'd be really interested to know how good the guy does at selling his photos. If you see him again I hope you can ask. Or if he leaves his work at a vendors spot, you might ask the vendor.

A friend of mine, Holden Richards lugs around a LF camera & photographs the Eno River as well as other landscapes. He held his 1st showing at a dinky gallery a few years back. He had just begun to develop sheet film but had confidence in himself & his work. He was showing 12 of his photographs & offering matted prints for $300.00. The night I went 2 were already tagged sold. Not bad for an amatuer just starting out.
 
His work may be derivative. It could be similar to what others have done. But he's probably the only one who took that shot at that location at that time and that, indeed, makes it unique. He may be guilty of puffing himself up, but he is accurate.
 
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