I've had my photos placed in a Gallery! In my town, they have a "Second Saturday" where local art is featured in shops and restaurants all over town. For April, my photos were selected...

Stef C Loc: Conshohocken (near philly) PA

In my town, they have a "Second Saturday" where local art is featured in shops and restaurants all over town. For April, my photos were selected to be on display in Temaki Sushi restaurant. I had a meeting with the owner last night, and at least 15 of my framed photos will be up for sale. I am so excited and honored to have the opportunity for people to come look at my photos.

Any recommendations on selling or prices? I get to arrange and frame the photos myself, so any recommendations on that would be welcome as well.

Thank you!!

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

First, congratulations on being selected. The pricing issue is always tricky. Let's face it there are photographers who can get thousands of dollars for a print but that's the exception. I revert back to my retail days (not photography) where everything was 3x the price that we paid for it. So if a framed print cost you $50.00, I'd start the pricing at $150.00 and go from there. You can still bring it down to $100 if you'd like but make sure they don't cost you more than you get.

Stef C Loc: Conshohocken (near philly) PA

Frank T wrote:

First, congratulations on being selected. The pricing issue is always tricky. Let's face it there are photographers who can get thousands of dollars for a print but that's the exception. I revert back to my retail days (not photography) where everything was 3x the price that we paid for it. So if a framed print cost you $50.00, I'd start the pricing at $150.00 and go from there. You can still bring it down to $100 if you'd like but make sure they don't cost you more than you get.

Thank you! I was going to order prints from Shutterfly, and then frame them with Ikea/Target simple black or black and white matted frames.. i figure the cost of each picture's preparation wouldn't be more than 15. I guess that'd put me in the $40-50 range...

Good advice!

photo guy Loc: Chippewa Falls, WI

Congratulations on such an accomplishment. That is a great honor. My opinion on the pricing is don't set it so high that no one would buy it. Great job.

Stef C Loc: Conshohocken (near philly) PA

Thank you photo guy, great advice. What do you think is reasonable?

the $40-80 range?

Stef C Loc: Conshohocken (near philly) PA

Stef C wrote:

Thank you photo guy, great advice. What do you think is reasonable?

the $40-80 range?

These are 3 that will be featured.. :)

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

congradulatioms. that is a great honor.

texbrandt

Stef C wrote:

Thank you photo guy, great advice. What do you think is reasonable?

the $40-80 range?

Speaking from 30 plus years of selling my art I think you are likely to lose more sales by pricing too low than pricing too high. The public's perception of the worth of a piece of art will be in part by the price you put on it.

Don't know what sort of promotion will be going on in this situation, but any promotion that you can do to push your work as art should be helpful. As an example- The Photographic Art of ________ rather than the Photography of _______. I sold my wood carvings as Wood Sculpture rather than billing them as carvings.

Don't know the market in your area, but if you go with the $40 to $80 range I would pick something about in the middle. People used to ask me "how long did it take you to make that piece?" With the idea of determining by the time invested in it how much it should be worth. My answer typically was "all my life up the the moment it was finished." Every bit of your life experience up through the moment of producing the image is a part of what went into it.

Good luck and have fun.

Stef C Loc: Conshohocken (near philly) PA

texbrandt wrote:

quote=Stef C Thank you photo guy, great advice. ... (show quote)

^^ Thank you. That is very good advice!

I was going to sell one 16x20, a few 8x10s, and some 5x7s. Is Do you think the 5x7s will be too small to sell?

English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL

Just as a suggestion, do not go crazy over ordering and stuff like that. Offer a simple card next to each display and state a price that is reasonable, this is not like you are well known. As said by Stef C, underpricing is a mistake and so is over pricing. Visit local art galleries and see what the market is.

Remember that folks expect quality, not wall mart print so, pay attention to that. Do not frame anything but present the sold picture on an acid free support.

Framed pictures have a way to kill sales so be careful there.

texbrandt

[quote=Stef C][quote=texbrandt]

Stef C wrote:

^^ Thank you. That is very good advice!

I was going to sell one 16x20, a few 8x10s, and some 5x7s. Is Do you think the 5x7s will be too small to sell?

The one sure thing is that if you don't put them out they won't sell. For the 5X7 you will probably want to put an oversized matte on them.

LittleRedFish Loc: Naw'lens (New Orleans)

Stef C wrote:

Thank you photo guy, great advice. What do you think is reasonable?

the $40-80 range?

These are 3 that will be featured.. :)

nice work, I'm so happy for you to received such an honor. Do you have any idea how much others in the past have asked for there work. That might give you a starting point.

Good luck and keep us posted.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

First off CONGRATULATIONS!

Secondly...I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of 50.00.

I know that I'd be hard pressed in this economy to justify buying a photo for 150.00 right now.

that's just my opinion.

photo guy Loc: Chippewa Falls, WI

Stef C wrote:

Thank you photo guy, great advice. What do you think is reasonable?

the $40-80 range?

I would think that would be a good price range. Since you aren't too big yet getting to the selling business it helps to start out small and work your way up. Keep the prices reasonable now to see what and how many sell and go from there. If they sell really fast at this price then you can always raise your price the next time and see what happens again so then you get a good idea of where your pricing should stay. As you get more experience in the future, you could always raise it up and then run specials. Hope this helps. Any more questions, don't be afraid to ask.

photo guy Loc: Chippewa Falls, WI

I like those photos. I thing the night shot of the city and bridge will sell.