Pricing (was Re: [Leica] Immodest posting about modest success...)

[jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Aaron,
Congrats on selling your prints - the best philosophy of selling prints 
I know is from Brooks Jensen, editor of Lens Work:

http://www.lenswork.com/lwsarticle1.htm and 
http://www.lenswork.com/lwsarticle2.htm

http://www.brooksjensenarts.com/pigmentonpaper.htm#commerce

Its another approach. Have a read. It makes sense to me because I dont 
make my living from photography, it might not to a professional.
Cheers
Jayanand

Aaron Sandler wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Pricing is a mystery to me.  I know a little about photography, but I 
> ain't no businessman.  Nor do I want to be.
>
> No, it wasn't twenty bucks...I don't want to sell them that badly.  A 
> high volume would kill me, time-wise.  I love to take pictures...I 
> like to process and print them ok, but not enough to spend my days 
> inside instead of outside.  I charged a hundred unframed (8x10ish) or 
> one-fifty framed...framing I do myself so it's cheaper than going to a 
> shop (archival mats, hinge mounting, uv-filter glass, thin black 
> aluminum frames, 14x18).  One-fifty seemed like a price that felt like 
> enough $ to make me happy, and enough to be sure that the buyer really 
> wanted it, without feeling to me like too much for folks to afford if 
> they did really want it.
>
> I was at an arts festival recently...juried so it wasn't crap.  I saw 
> a photog with some nice prints...epson 2200 (like mine) and they 
> looked pretty good...snowy black and white scenes kind of stuff.  He 
> was charging twenty bucks for a print on letter paper.  I was 
> shocked...I'm also not sure he was selling any more at that price than 
> he would have at a higher price.  Sometimes it doesn't seem special if 
> it only costs twenty bucks.
>
> Strange thing this pricing.
>
> No shrimp for me, thanks...I'm allergic.
>
> Best,
> Aaron
>
>