Author Topic: Going off the microstock path (Read 3556 times)

hymowitzer · « **on:** February 07, 2007, 22:19 »

Has anyone ventured outside the regular uploading images, and tried selling your work in galleries?
I just began. And although I have less than 2 years experience as a photographer, I was accepted
in a gallery already. Below are four images I have begun with in one gallery, with an opening sometime in March.

http://logonpage.com/images/golen%20field.jpg
http://logonpage.com/images/gated%20sunrise%2020x13%20sharp.jpg
http://logonpage.com/images/Sunrise%20in%20the%20fields.jpg
http://logonpage.com/images/5X15.jpg

I'm also submitting in another gallery, different images, but I'm still waiting to hear from them.
Of course, if they sell the gallery gets 40% off the top. But I name my own price.

Another way to sell images. All of the above are 16X24 except 1 is 5X15 (the trees)
Each of the big ones will sell for $500 The cost of framing and matting cost me $250.

Just experimenting.

ianhlnd · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2007, 00:28 »

Go for it! And, let us know how you do. If the talent is there, so are the bucks if that's what you want.

Some of us are into stock because that's what we do and like an addiction can't help it, some who have created a niche and are making the bucks and gain the recognition, some because it's a hobby, and some just for the appreciation that somebody used our pic for something.

And then there's fine art. Anything and everything on earth has been photographed, but nothing has been photographed til it's been done thru your eyes. That's what makes it different.

Go for it and good luck

We'd probably all be taking pictures anyway,

yingyang0 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2007, 01:20 »

Quote from: hymowitzer on February 07, 2007, 22:19

http://logonpage.com/images/golen%20field.jpg
http://logonpage.com/images/gated%20sunrise%2020x13%20sharp.jpg

I wouldn't expect the first two to actually sell because they aren't really gallery type pieces (I've bought a lot of artwork from galleries over the years). Still, congrats on getting an exhibition because that in and of itself is an achievement.

sbonk · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2007, 13:57 »

I have been thinking about this and would like to give it a try. I have been spending some time preparing some prints.

Can I ask how you went about this? Did you just start bringing your work to galleries and showing what you have?

hymowitzer · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2007, 14:19 »

Quite simply, I walked into a galleryand told them I was a local photograher and asked if they would be interested
in showing some of my work. I took the approach, I was doing them a favor rather than them doing me a favor.

Next I showed them my website. They liked what they saw and then asked for prints. I told them to pick out which
images they would like to see in prints. They did, I brought some 8x12's in, they like them, and said they would show them.
I had them printed in a professional photo lab 16x24 and now they're being framed and matted.

Thats it!

sbonk · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2007, 14:27 »

Thank you hymowitzer .

I only have about 10 prints completed. I find it takes me quite a lot of time to prepare for print. Just the right sharpness, etc. I end up printing the photo about 5 times before I get the way I want it. I have these 10 matted and framed to use as examples. I need to work on preparing more and then I am going to try the same thing.

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