On Selling Prints

[DrngdKreationz]

Thanks everyone for a lot of very solid Insight and critique of the image. Although that image was just the one my girlfriend requested I see stuff now that I didn't see in it before so I appreciate the honest comments. Ted, I think I will try out local charities to help set my price point that's pretty much genius.  Habakuk, It's interesting because I was planning on splitting this image into 2 frames right down the middle. I'll take your advice and play with that Idea too. The images I'm honestly thinking about selling were:   

[habakuk]

Carlos, I can't say which shots will have a chance on the market... this all depends on your market. However, from my own experience, the fourth will have a chance for kind of a postcard sujet. The first one feels too dark, to heavy. The second could be hung somewhere in a bistro bar, while I don't know about the others. If I put up pictures for selling, I always ask myself: would I hang this somewhere in my rooms, in my office or somewhere else? If no, then I will not really spend much time trying to sell them. If yes, I try to guess where I could find those people who will buy pictures for that given room... e.g. if you feel it could be interesting for a bar, then I'd create a demo map with those shots and try to contact bar owners etc.

May I ask what led you to that choice of pictures for your selling attempts?

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[DrngdKreationz]

Thanks Roland, I'll follow that advice and go over each image carefully.

What led me to this choice of photos is that I normally photograph people and I haven't approached many of them with the thought of selling an image that may contain them. So I decided to stick with more abstract/still life style images I had readily available, and these were images that didn't feel cliche. (like a typical sunset, or a typical landscape) and these had an attitude about them that caught my attention (maybe that dark heavy feeling you're talking about... ) so I selected these as images I should get some feedback on regarding saleability.

[habakuk]

Well, I have slowly developed a sense of what has a chance to please the masses, and what has a chance to please a small number of enthusiasts - in regard of my own photographic work. Meaning: if something pleases me very much, it has seldom chance to get sold to masses.  

Most important: if you go for the masses, don't expect much money per picture. That would probably be more the postcard kind of selling, or maybe a poster or a calendar. But therer you have to produce masses to get a good price, and then sell masses for little money. It doesn't pay off, if you don't understand it as advertising cost on your side...

E.g. the last one might find a lover or two. Frame it nicely, e.g. on a large black passepartout and a decent aluminium frame, and you might sell it twice for so much that you would have to sell thousands of postcards to earn as much.

I think the coffee cups might go for small bucks, but they might be the door opener for you to get in contact with a bar owner. And then you might have a chance to hang the other ones, and maybe sell one or two that way. But I can only recommend that you do what you did: select shots, present them to friends and folks, get feedback, sit down and think about that feedback and start that loop again. Looking forward to discuss this matter with you. I am very interested in that bracnh of thoughts currently.

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