I've been researching people selling photographs on The Net recently. Lots of photographers out there have sites for selling their pictures, and even more artists are trying to sell their paintings. The question I keep coming back to is the one in my title: How many do they sell? 10 a week, 1 a year?
Of all the photographers websites I’ve looked at recently, I just can’t tell if they make a living from it or not. You see prices ranging from about a fiver up to hundreds of quid, but how many do they sell?
One guy wanted a fiver for an A4 print that looked quite a lot like this one of mine. I bet he didn’t get many takers. And for Rosie: I used the golden section in this picture for positioning the white stone top right:
Ebay seems to be rubbish for photographs apart from really cheap postcards and soft porn. I want to keep away from the bottom end of the market if I can. So, commissions are the way to go, at least initially.
Cheers, Tom.
timsuzi
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I've opften wondered that myself Tom. I was part time, several years back and used to sell slides to the Tourist Board and to outdoor pursuit magazines but to be quite honest I never produced anywhere near enough to make any more than pocket money from it.
It used to be my pipe dream that I would leave teaching and travel around Britain and capture it's most hidden jewels and then sell them earning enough just to be comfortable.
But the pipe has had to be put away ......