Thank you Jennie, that is very kind.
The fine art market is indeed what we have been aiming for, so far it seems a rather hard market to break into online though, if it actually exists on the Internet at all (which I still sometimes wonder about).
We hope to start selling our photos to calendar publishers and other aesthetic-oriented stock photo buyers through our website (or through other stock agencies in that niche).
Fred: you seem very knowledgeable (and generous with your knowledge) on the topic of Internet marketing. I would be grateful for any critiques or pointers on my web marketing efforts on www.islandlight.ca . I have added Acclaim Images to my links page, a link back from one of your websites would be very welcome, also if you have another, more nature-photo oriented, website that I could link to please let me know.
Thanks everyone,
Francis
PS. we are actually a brother/brother team not brother/sister.
photography website: www.islandlight.ca
new photo blog with only one post: www.islandlightphotography.net
On 11-03-12 11:37 PM, Jennie Duncan wrote:
Greetings:
I just finished looking at some of the images that are posted on the "islandlight.ca" website. The photos are absoulutely amazing. This brother/sister photography team do outstanding work. My opinion, for what it's worth, these photos would be considered more in the "fine art" category than "stock" photography. But that's only my opinion.
Regards,
Jennie Duncan
From: Francis <francis@photosynth.ca>
To: selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 2:55:46 PM
Subject: Selling Stock Photography Will these nature images sell?
Hello everyone!
This is my first post here and would like to ask the normal opening question -- are these images saleable as stock: www.islandlight.ca ?
My brother and I have been fairly successful selling our photos locally as greeting cards, prints and calendars for some years. We've put a lot of work into our website and have had a small number of sales through it. Recently I added a rudimentary image licensing system to our website. So far we've had one person wanting to use an image for free for a school project. :)
I'm wondering if:
1) With enough of the right website traffic I could expect to get some stock sales happening though our website.
2) We would do better to list these images with an agency like Alamy or Photographers Direct (both of which I have a few images on now), or some other, more nature targeted, agency.
3) It's not worth trying to sell this type of nature images as stock and we should shoot lifestyle images or stick to postcards!
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Francis
Island Light Photography www.islandlight.ca
Nature and wildlife images from Canada's wild West coast.
On 11-03-03 01:48 PM, Fred wrote:I want to invite all of you to begin posting links to your better images or images for which you would like feedback.
We need to start using this forum for more than just the occasional argument over RF, RM & Micro or whatever stupid thing gets everyone going.
Just don't overdue it. If lots of people are posting then limit yourself, if few are posting then feel free to post a link every day.
I'll post one to get us started.
I would also love to see links with summary descriptions for articles you have on your blog or website. Just please keep it about stock photography or advanced photography and not the stupid photography 101 links I get (and reject) on a daily basis.
Fred Voetsch
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