Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you hit the relevant link on the side, you can see every print sale ans see what cost what. The $20 print was a Ctein inkjet to demonstrate how small sesnor cameras can make great prints: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/04/print-offer-small-sensor.html I've been exposed to enough bad behaviour by galleries that I really like this model, in which galleries are the only real losers. Marty On Sunday, 27 January 2013, Mark Rabiner wrote: > With print prices off his thing ranging from $19.95 to $395 nothing is > being > said. What would $19.95 buy? Its meaningless. Its just a nod to the > internet way of photo commerce in which everything is a dime a dozen. A > person who grew up with the galleries before the internet as he did knows > that a photographers first show his prints go for a least a couple of > hundred bucks. Now its 20 maybe!? > We take off a decimal point because of what? Volume?! The internet? Its > nonsense and he should have enough sense to not support the internet lowest > common denominator of demeaning photography by people who are not ever > intending to be serious about it but simply want to justify a hobby > involving huge expenditures. > These kinds of people certainly ruined stock we'd hate to see them ruin the > serious gallery photo art market it may happen with people like this who > should know better seemingly supporting them. > 20 dollars a print is what you pay for a wedding blowup from a schlock > wedding photographer. Not anything from somebody resembling an artist > aspiring or otherwise. > > > > On 1/27/13 6:18 AM, "Richard Man" <richard at > richardmanphoto.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > I like Michael Johnston / Brooks Jensen's model. Not that I have made > much > > money at all, but I also run special print sales from time to time - $18 > > for a 8.5x11" type of deal. > > > > Get the work out to be seen is my motto. > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj > > <jayanand at gmail.com <javascript:;>>wrote: > > > >> > >> > theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/01/the-top-mod > >> el-for-print-sales.html > >> > >> Cheers > >> Jayanand > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >