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I’m a graphic designer and photographer and would like to attend a crafts fair that allows photographers to sell their prints. I’ve never sold my prints to the public before so I was wondering if there was anyone out there that would have some advice for a crafts fair newbie?
For example, what size prints should I offer, how many of each should I anticipate on bringing, things like that.
I’ve done tradeshows before for my design biz, but actually having a tangible product to sell is new to me.

I’m putting together a price package for my time as a family portrait photographer. As such, I’m wondering how most Professional photographers present their finished, purchased product to the client.
For example, my potential client is interested in a collection of prints of their family, him and his wife, and and their children. Some will be for framing on their wall, some, I’m going to build an album out of using Apple’s software.
How do you present the prints to them? Framed? Matted? Mounted? or just printed? At what sort of price/markup?
Thanks for your help!

don’t most photographers that make a living from it or at least some money make it by being hired to provide the service of taking/making picture’s for someone else?
very few like say anne geddes make money by selling product? most that make money do it by selling a service?
does anyone get what im ranting about?
how wrong am i?

Selling digital photography to stock photo sites or selling photos over the internet can be a very profitable business if you know all the nuances that will get you a good amount of sales. Learning the technical aspects is very important, and really paints the fine line between making money and wasting your time. I don’t mean to discourage anyone, because it should be conveyed that anyone with a digital camera, an internet connection and a little spare time can do quite well. A lot of people sell their freelance photos through stock photography sites or through their own page/web host without a particular theme and do fairly well, but I will take more time and effort. A better battle plan is to find a particular type or subject of digital photography that you can easily focus on.

To explain further what picking a theme really does for photography sales, it helps consumers easily find what they are looking for when they type in specific descriptions or set of keywords. This benefits you because if a consumer types in your specific subject there is a good chance that it will bring them directly to your freelance photography. If you don’t already have the program called Camera Dollars, then labeling and specifying keywords is something you have to learn, but this tool will help you. And after you read the Camera Dollars lessons, you need to sign up with these companies and do a bit of research in order to figure out a profitable theme to pick for your photography.

Here are are several different types of freelance photography themes and short descriptions of each.

The method of taking pictures as a Theme:

Some examples of this would be macro, scenery, black and white, geometric, architecture, abstract, micro, motion, portrait, or panoramic.

These are usually recognized by simple types of photography and aren’t usually profitable on their own. Usually you want to combine this with other themes, like instead of “50′s Television” you could use the theme “Black and white 50′s televisions.”

Nominal Themes:

Simply put these themes based on any object, person, or place. Examples are Dvd, chair, cookware, doorknobs, Bahamas, Britney Spears and so on.

Themes Based off of Photo Utility:

Instead of think of what to take pictures of think of what the person buying the photo is using it for. You can base your theme off of a particular job or usage for the photo. To give an example a lot of graphic designers buy digital photos off the internet, do some research and try to sell particularly to them.

Intangible Themes:

Intangible digital photography themes are based off of ideas, emotions and other ambiguous images. Here are some examples: Love, hope, existentialism, correction, trust, triumphant, justice.

Your digital photography doesn’t have to be specified by just one form. Any of these three types of subjects can be put together to make an even more specific category of photos. An example of mixing two themes would be like Motion and friendship, which can be a picture of two friends doing some activity together or otherwise being in the state of “motion.” You could have hundreds of themes by the time your done, but it is better to focus on a few at a time. Do your research and in order to learn about how to sign up or start your own business check out Jobs in Digital Photography

Hello everybody, I’m lookin for photography websites for selling my photos. I’m kind of being lost inbetween choosing the most professional and credible ones. At the same time, I’m not quite sure about which ones that take appropiate commisions and reasonable membership fees as well? I need good websites that deal with professional photograhers. What do you think about deviant art, flickr, fotolibra and these comman sites? Plz tell me am I searching correctly or I’m completely lost? Thanx for ur time, bye bye.