In comments on a recent post, evil fizz asks:
Chris, do you offer prints of your work?
This is something I’ve been considering for a while, as I do have a few images people have asked about, some of which actually work in print as opposed to the far more blur-forgiving online display mode.
So I’ve been looking around at the print-selling options available online, and have narrowed the possibilities down a bit. I kinda like the features this regrettably flash-heavy site offers, for instance. Looks like I could offer prints for sale by paying about 30 bucks a month in rent, more or less. Looks like the going market rate for an 8 by 10 generally runs about the same, or a little less. If I sold a print or two a month I’d break even. Seems doable.
But before I pursue it further, due diligence requires a bit of market research. Hence this focus group. Help me come to some sort of resolution, won’t you? You can register your point of view in the poll below. Feel free to enlarge upon it in comments.
joshua tree and stars!
I would be especially interested in your daytime desert shots of the Southwest. I might even be interested in larger than 8x10 for hanging as art in my home.
Absolutely! Discounting my own unaccountable love for the newt orgy series, your pics (particularly of desert and its denizens) surely widely coveted.
Strategic question: any benefits to holding back shots that might prove enticing book covers?
I’ve found quite a few of these photo-selling sites, by searching photographers’ forums/etc. Some are print-on-demand, some let you fulfill orders with your own prints. Without pointing out my own favorites, I’ll just list everything I found in case you want to check them all out (each is a .com): backprint, cafepress, candid2000, deviantart, digitalrailroad, exposuremanager, foliolink, ifp3, imagekind, imagequix, instaproofs, lifepics, morephotos, orderpicture, photoreflect, photoshelter, photostockplus, pictage, printroom, redbubble, shutterfly, simplephoto, smugmug, spitfire and winkflash.
Will you be able to send photos to us CRN lurkers outside the US? I’d expect an extortionate packaging fee, of course, and will probably have to give my fingerprints to Homeland Security or something, but that’s a small price to pay…
Apparently, my mind has a gutter filter because as I read your poll question, I first thought it said, “Should Chris offer pornographic prints for sale?” Good grief.
Way ahead of you on that one, Blondie.
Now, that’s my kind of bunny!