[Leica] Selling prints online and prices

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)]

I sell prints fairly often off my website. It took a long time to get to
that point though and I think the fact that I've exhibited and published
numerous times over a long period of years helps make people willing to
spend the money for my prints. I have over 1000 images on my site, so people
can see that I am a serious artist with a deep body of work and long
history. People who buy art value that, its more important than the image in
many cases, sad to say. That said, I earn much more money selling my images
as stock photos from my site than I do selling prints. That's fine by me, I
make more money on stock sales. No print to make and ship, image is a file
emailed to the buyer, and often I can demand higher licensing fees than I'd
get selling a print.


-- 
Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-424-0897

http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio

http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My latest work!



On 3/9/10 4:57 PM, "nicolas vigier" <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Are there people on this list making money by selling prints ?
> 
> I have never sold any print at all, but sometimes I see people selling
> prints on their website. Usually, prices are quite high, and I'm
> wondering if they are selling at lot at this price.
> 
> This weekend, I made a few prints of some of my photos with a friend
> who has access to a darkroom :
> http://boklm.eu/b/log/photos/darkroom/making-prints.html
> 
> Taking photos, and making prints is fun, it is something I like to do.
> But it costs a lot of money, and takes a lot of time. Now I'm wondering
> if it could be possible to make money by selling prints, and how
> difficult that would be.
> 
> Maybe selling them on ebay ?
> 
> I'm wondering how much that could be sold. And how difficult that would
> be to sell something, for someone not famous, who currently doesn't know
> anybody that would want to buy one.
> 
> Anybody have an idea about this, or experiences ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nicolas