Comments on: Photography Pricing

By: William quartz

William quartz — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:36:21 +0000

I assure you that professional photography equipment costs a lot more than your best friend's camera. A high quality camera, specialized lenses, memory cards, digital software, tripods, umbrellas and lighting, and colorful background are professional-grade and are quite expensive.

By: Denyerec

Denyerec — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:24:06 +0000

Not unless you pay for them it isn't you cheeky bum!

By: julia

julia — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:22:24 +0000

it is good to use these photographs as a background image on a websites

By: Exhibition displays

Exhibition displays — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:23:37 +0000

Many photographers would not count on gigs to be their livelihood. Again, this is not your father lending you his camera to take a few photos.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:49:32 +0000

Trouble with all digital media is that it’s just too easy to rip off. It’s OK having license T’s& C’s but in reality would you ever be able to enforce them? With the Internet covering the world how would you enforce them when some bugger buys your picture and puts it up for sale, or uses it in some other way, on a server in ?

However, the above may not be such an issue depending on the market your going for. If it’s the professional market – advertising agencies etc then they would probably be a bit more trustworthy. No idea how you market to them though. If you go for the general surfer market then I reckon you a) need to keep the cost low as they are more likely to buy and b) accept the fact that once sold you lose control of it.

I guess going for the low cost market would be easier (improved search engine strategy, sell via Ebay?). If people see something they like then they are more likely to pay if it’s low cost. Without a doubt there is real reluctance for people to pay for something they can’t touch.

This might seem a bit backward in the digital age but what about trying out local galleries and libraries? You may be able to persuade a library to hold a small exhibition. Smaller market but possibly higher sale to view ratio.

Anyway good luck!

PS Nice pictures, especially ‘Hold It’ 

By: Frog

Frog — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:28:00 +0000

i wouldn’t display the image online without a big watermark on it, unless it’s too small to use? that’s the best way round it 😉

wp GA though

By: Gareth Ablett

Gareth Ablett — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:42:14 +0000

TIFF’s can contain raw data so RAW file is close enough.

what I ment by 640×480 was that they must not display the full image on its own online at that size, they would get the image in a larger format of above 1280×1024 and can then do what the like within agreement with the licence.

By: Frog

Frog — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:58:45 +0000

“As for selling images you make sure who you are selling to agrees to the license that tehy must not resell and cant be placed on the internet at a higer then 640×480 resolution unless in part with other design work.”

is maybe silly. i’m in the process of setting up a stock photography library (open/vetted photography entry, but getty aren’t getting any more of my money). one thing i’ve found is that you’ll be buying TIF not RAW, and another that many demand 800×600 for RF stock images as that way they can make banners with them. if you’re using banners for header work, 640×480……do you *really* want people stretching your images to 755? raises interesting pricing questions though.

paypal nice idea but impractical, althought their ‘sandbox’ kit is now quite nice. ‘how much would you pay’ would probably encourage people to be cheeky.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:49:45 +0000

Paypal does a nice free shopping chart system that should be fairly easy to integrate into your site, I’m considering doing it myself. I quite like Paypal

Why not set a ‘how much would you pay for this’ button, where it chucks you an email saying ‘im willing to pay £XXX for it, what do you say?’. That way you can tell the cheap bastards to piss off, unless you need the cash.

Just a thought.

By: Gareth Ablett

Gareth Ablett — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:51:15 +0000

firstly I’d just like to recomend the the deviant print service now available you set the price they take a cut of printing etc and you get the extra, plus they have some cheap advertising extras to get the viewers of you art up.

As for selling you art on a site there allways going to be the problem of costs versus income but the way I see it is that currently you hvae a collection of images ragardles of how big that collection is of images worth resale (eiter digitaly or as printed work) currently what ever they cost you to make so far they arny making you any money at the moment, so to start with the idea would be to produce some income from what you have already spent out on equipment and time (costs).

As for selling images you make sure who you are selling to agrees to the license that tehy must not resell and cant be placed on the internet at a higer then 640×480 resolution unless in part with other design work. have you read any of the license that come with purchasing art, I have a few at home if you want a copy of one.

Most places you purchase art for over £150 you will be purchasing the raw format image at a large resolution, for images of about 1280×1024 to 2048×1536 you would be looking at selling for about the £30 to £60 range and you would be likely to sell that if you had it in the right placment for people to see it.

ps, talk to me if you want to team up (plus other prosumer’s) on selling pictures online.