Selling Prints

[My Porsche]

I kinda want to get into selling prints for extra money, but I need to know a few things, namely:

-Where would I sell them?
-If I showed some of the photos I intended to print, could someone maybe give me an idea of whether they are good enough to sell?
-How much would I charge for said photos?

Any help would be great.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Colin #1 thing is figuring out your market and where people interested in that subject matter show up. Shows, Parties, Street Festivals, A retail shop that may take your items on consignement and other places.

The price that you charge is based on your cost, your equipment depreciation costs, your time and how much profit you want to make on the items. Sometimes if you start out to low with photographs it is very hard to increase them vs a painter or sculpture starting off who can grow his prices as his collectors increase and his pieces are put in major collections.

So give us more info.

[My Porsche]

Well, I'm almost 16, so I guess once I get a car downton would be a big market? (I live in Memorial, so nothing really around here that would make sense to try and sell to/at) I use a D50 and 18-135mm lens, so I have about $1100 I'd like to earn back from buying that. I'll post some examples so you might have some idea who would want these? My subject matter varies based on basically where I am and what's at my disposal. Mostly everything but indoor sports and macro. I'd like to do more urban stuff but because of lack of car, I can't. I don't really know what demographic goes for what types of stuff, maybe you do?

Here are some of the ones I might consider trying to sell:

[HotHolly]

You might want to try stock agenicies. Not sure about age restrictions on stock images.

One selling prints, once you pass the pro line in how your images look, use Sears as a benchmark for portraits. As for other areas - prices are all over. I havent found a benchmark yet.

[babybluetx23]

also check with some of your local framing shops.....a LOT of the time they take items on consignment. I have two prints at two different framing shops that are on consignment.

[HotHolly]

Oh, and if you want to do that type of thing (rather than booking sessions and selling prints that way) many coffe houses have art work hanging on the walls. You can almost always get your print hung in one of those. The shop usually takes up to 20% of the sale price and will sell it for you.

[suzyjazz]

I think the 2nd, 3rd (with Ferrari edited out for trademark reasons) and 8th images are the best candidates for stock photography. The 2nd image is pretty cool -- is that a very long exposure of the sky? I can't figure out how that was done! That one or the mountain one might work as art on a coffee shop. Or maybe even the clock.

[My Porsche]

Yeah just I think a...3(?) second exposure, clock came out really cool, that's straight from the film I scanned!