Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 At 09:15 PM 10/13/2005, you wrote: >Congrats but I hope you were not giving them away price wise. > >A coffee shop maybe you don't expect gallery pricing. >But hopefully it's better than your average internet pricing we're seeing. >The influx... > >People selling their images on the internet for twenty bucks which really is >at a loss would be selling them for at least 200 if they took a photo course >and got clued into the gallery goings ons. It just makes it a bit harder for >for when people go into a proper photo gallery and they go "screw it I'll >just get some nice pictures on the internet". But I love coffee shop shows >and have had a bunch myself. Keeps you sharp. >And people get to spend some more time with the images then if they go >blitzing a white walled gallery which typically doesn't have a place to even >sit down for a minute. >Or a water fountain. >Or brie and champagne. Unless you get one of there postcards and come the >right night. And stand the right place. >You can usually find me right by the shrimp. Wearing a red carnation. > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/