Thank you for your feedback. What kind of paper should I use? I know for myself, this is what I would like if I bought someone's photograph, but I am open to suggestions. And like I said, right now I am trying to learn as much about this business as possible, and figure I have several years to get it working. If you have paper suggestions, I am all ears. I looked for papers on the site, but there was no clear sense of what would make the most sense.
peace,
Dave
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, J Bryan Kramer <codeburner@...> wrote:
>
> Hard to believe you are making much of a profit using Exhibition Fiber plus
> ink costs. That is expensive paper.
>
> BK
>
>
> ""Only the print contains the artist's meaning and message." "
> ----- Ansel Adams
>
> J Bryan Krämer North Florida, USA
> photos at: http://pbase.com/photoburner
> blog at: http://www.photoburner.net
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 09:25, davecote007 <dncote@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am new to the board as well as selling my photography at art and
> > craft shows. I live in Virginia Beach and have a full time job as a project
> > manager. But I am growing tired of the job treadmill and am looking to move
> > into this full time. From my reading, I understand that to make this viable
> > will take about 3 years. So I'd rather work out the process and methods
> > while I still have full time employment before I make the leap to selling
> > photography full time.
> >
> > So I have spent the past several weeks reading all the posts from this
> > year and last year and have come up with the following plan:
> >
> > 1) 8x10 Mat size, 5x7 photos (photos slightly smaller for signature),
> > about 100 different images, plan right now at pricing them at $20 for 1, $35
> > for 2, and $50 for 3. Will offer framing at $20 per photo. These images are
> > different from the others offered at larger sizes (afraid of cannablizing
> > images offered at larger sizes).
> >
> > 2) 11x14 Mat size (8.5x11 photos (slightly smaller for signature),
> > about 100 different images, plan right now at pricing them at $40 for 1, $75
> > for 2 and $110 for 3. A few selected images will used to offer framed
> > versions that will be hung on the walls of my booth.
> >
> > 3) 16x20 Mat size, 11x14 photos (again, slightly smaller for
> > signature), about 30 from the images used in number 2 above, plan on pricing
> > them at $60 for 1, $115 for 2, and $165 for 3. A selected few framed
> > versions of some of the images will be hung on the walls and priced at
> > $100.00.
> >
> > 4) 18x24 Framed images (approximately 13x19 image size, slightly
> > smaller for signature) with a pricing of $150. These will come from the
> > images used in number 2 above.
> >
> > 5) The other item I will offer will be note cards from images used in
> > number 1 above. I plan of pricing them at $5 each, sets of 6 for $20.
> >
> > 6) All color images are printed on Epson Exhibition Fiber paper, all of
> > my HDR images are printed on Sunset Metallic paper, and all my black and
> > whites are printed on Epson Velvet Fine Art paper. All images are printed on
> > my Epson R2880 (hence the limitation in the large sizes, not willing yet to
> > try sending images to a lab, I like to control the printing process). All
> > are mounted on acid free foam core, matted using Cresent Select single mats
> > (white) and bagged. All images have a little 4x6 print on the foam core back
> > which has my name, phone number, web and email address as well as
> > description of the photograph. My goal is present the best possible image to
> > my future customers so that they will come back to my booth in future shows.
> > My booth setup right now is 10x10.
> >
> > My questions are these:
> >
> > 1) Do these sizes sound reasonable?
> > 2) Is my pricing reasonable?
> > 3) Does having a seperate set of images for the smaller sizes makes
> > sense, or should I have the same images offered in smaller sizes as well?
> > Most of the images I like are in the larger sized body of work. But I know
> > from personal experience that what I like and what sells is often very
> > different.
> >
> > I know that this is long winded, but just wanted some feedback on this
> > business plan. I really appreciate all the information imparted by all of
> > you on this board, and these plans are a result of all that I have read over
> > the past couple of weeks.
> >
> > Thanks for reading!
> >
> > Peace,
> >
> > David Cote
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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