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If I go to France again I must remember to emphasise the "Old Alliance" in case they think I am a "Rosbif" . Mike |
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I left the shop but had to go back later to pick my jaw up. The takings for an average summer tourist season I could practically retire on. I have a couple of my very best silver prints for sale in the gallery. Once people see the price ( £195 for a 20x16 framed) they quickly move on and proceed to purchase 4 or 5 canvases at £40 each !! We’re in the wrong game here people. |
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If you want to make money take up painting and learn a style where you paint fast. If you have any talent you will make money if selling in the right place. £1000+ a painting is easy to achieve once you have a gallery prepared to represent you and your work is of the right type. You're never likely to achieve that with black and white prints unless selling in highend galleries. |
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Very true of course Rob and maybe I was jumping the gun a little after hearing about amount of money coming through the door.
I guess the point I was trying to make is how easy alot of people part with their cash for cheap and cheerful pretty pictures as opposed to more original handcrafted fine silver prints. One of the photographers who has a lot of work in the gallery recieves 12% on every one of his canvases sold. A good day he can shift 20+ @£40 each. Even at just 12% this aint too bad for practically doing nothing. Like all of us, he's out with the camera anyway and once a saleable image is captured and saved on file, the printer does the rest. Material cost isn't apparently that high when the stuff is bought in bulk. The day job stays of course but this is a nice little top up. |
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I think one should answer the original question with a clear: NO!
The only market for B&W images are France and the US! I once had on exhibition at BMW here in Germany while introducing a new car with lots of wealthy people during the opening and I sold nothing to them - the overall tenor was they could do the same! (But they hadn´t done so). Nowadays every person with a d....-shit is made believe he could do that. When I sell photos it´s through my website or when I speak to interested people directly (like an estate agent for his new office and that was a real big success). But I never could earn my living in selling photos. That is very hard, hard work and only a few have reached the top. I never will ;-) Last edited by mono; 3rd April 2010 at 12:29 PM. |
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As far as I understand, he doesn't pay for the inks, canvasses etc or do any of the work, gallery do that and they pay for it. He just collects a 12% royalty fee every time an image sells
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Ah that makes more sense. But the season is short and you have to pray for rain to drive everyone into the shops and galleries
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