SELLING PRINTS - My best (and worst) selling photos may surprise you
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2021
- Selling your photos as prints is such an amazing feeling. I love printing and making a living out of photography is something that I never thought was possible. In this video I share which prints sell the best and some photo selling tips.
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One of the things you didn’t cover and why I think some of your top images sell more is actually warm colours. I think most people who buy a print to hang on a wall at home like warm tones as it makes the room feel warmer. I know most of my favourite images of my own are dramatic, stormy and cooler images but my wife prefers the warmer sunset ones for hanging in the living room etc. The cooler images are banished to the hall way 😐
This is a really important point. People do not want to be at home and feel cold and I have seen other photographers talk about this. I recall Stuart McGlennon say it when I watched one of his videos recently
Bad for me, because I just love the cool colours 🤷
I think geography might add some color bias as well. When I lived in TX, a warm climate, I liked ‘cooler’ colored prints. Now that I live in the north east, USA, I prefer warmer colored prints.
Great point. I love 'snow' pictures, but to some people, the image projects a feeling of 'cold'.
"Banished to the hall way" 😂😂
Liking on Instagram means one likes the photo. Purchasing a print means someone likes the print + it fits with ones decor. This added parameter, I think, might explain the variance btwn liked vs sold. Monochrome/ duotone, subdued colors are more versatile for fitting in - thus sell more.
Likes don't pay the bills. Money does.
You are right. But there's even more: There is also a difference between thinking "Nice pic", and being ready and able to invest the money. People might give a like to 100 photos per day but they sure won't buy all of them. And in my personal case: I never buy any prints for the simple reason that I prefer to hang my own photos on my walls.
@@andread4721 but you're a photographer, usually the people buying aren't photographers and the majority of the population are not photographers lol
It could be a simple case of demographics - the majority of Instagram users are teenagers, also many of your Instagram followers are likely to be fellow photographers and students of your work. Xx
As photographers, our personal favourites are often closely tied to the memories or experiences we had while taking them. I'm thinking that most potential buyers don't care that you hiked 3 miles uphill both ways in a thunderstorm to get that special shot or about the good time in the pub you had with people you've met after the shoot. However, the journey is as important as the destination for me. Unfortunately, aside from a video, it's difficult to convey those experiential aspects to potential customers. Of course, some just don't care about the backstory and only like the print for what it is. We can all do with some more customers of the latter type.
I would love to see some more videos on the business side of photography!
Me too!
Yes, please!
Wow, this was super insightful and a great insight into the world of printing - thanks, Nigel! Really appreciate the mention and kind words as well, you’ve made my day! I really do recommend everyone who’s into landscapes to get printing, I’ve personally found it the most rewarding thing I’ve done so far.
A very interesting video on what people look for when purchasing a print. I put my photographs on on a site called Ephotozine, to be viewed,voted and commented on, I am surprised as to what people regard as a good photograph to what they see as not so good, I also print my work, just for my own pleasure, beats looking at it on a screen, it's a case of I took that shot, and I printed it...... Thank you for sharing..
The Madeira pics on instagram will have been viewed and liked by people looking to holiday there, not just photographers. Prints are sold not just to photographers but to whole families. The beach photo with the strong foreground will be popular with everyone in the family. The blue seascape with the rocks in the front is fabulous but blue pictures will be less popular because they can create a less than homely feeling in the house. Either warm colours or those with a strong talking point are likely to be most popular with a whole family. I love the black and white stark photo of the house, but I wouldn't want it in my home. These are just my views for what they're worth, but I understand that not everyone will agree.
I agree. When I printed some of my own pictures for my living room, I also wanted something a bit warm and welcoming, so I decided against one of my favorite pictures that was taken in cool bluish snow.
The timing of this video was like a calling! I'm literally having an exhibition and would love these tips :)
Great video once again. I find printing my images has helped me grow and helped me learn by physically being able to see my faults that are sometimes lost on my computer. Printing them and looking at them for a matter of time really helps you spot those mistakes and also more importantly what you love about what you love about the image you’ve taken.
Alex.
Thanks for this Nigel. Been following you for years and always appreciated the way you articulate things. As an avid amateur African wildlife photographer I’ve really been climbing a mental mountain over not only whether my work is even good enough to sell, but also how best to present it in print form. This video was excellent and gave me some great ideas.
Thank you, Nigel!!
This was very helpful as I am embarking on a journey to begin selling my prints.
I have no idea what I'm doing. A true duck out of water.
Your remarks really helped me feel less "confused".
I wish for you and your family the very best 2024 has to offer!
Cheers from across the pond.
Kim Robitaille
photosbykimr
Ontario, Canada
YES! The print selling video is great. More please! Long time sub and admirer of your work. Very inspirational.
Brilliant, Mate! Inspiring. Your imagery is stunning. Thank you.
Fantastic video Nigel. I’ve just started selling my prints so the timing is perfect. That Facebook targeting ad tip is great.
Just watched this again and, as I forgot to say it the first time around, just wanted to spell out how much I appreciated your breakdown and tips. I have a book and some zines coming out next year, my website is up and prints will be going on sale so not just this video, but the whole series you've done, has been incredibly valuable. Bravo & thank you for your time and encouragement !
Thanks for the info Niglel. In keeping with your targeting marketing (like your San Francisco image) the best advice I ever got was from Colorado landscape photographer Doug Bennett. " Shoot local, sell local."
Spectacular! Thank you for guiding us through this process.
Out of all the image you've shown today, the two I like the most are the top two. It's not any 'fairy tail' content but the drama and mood that appeals to me. Last year I was challenged by sister to post an image on FB each day during the first Lockdown. Most of which were landscapes images. It proved a cathartic process; kept me occupied, improved my processing skills, and a vast LR catalog got a thorough sorting. Many overlooked photos were given new life, a few of which are now portfolio images. It resulted in a book, the likes of which I would have never of thought to produce. However, by far the most surprising aspect was which images proved the most popular. With an audience of mostly friend, relatives and photographers, the fairer sex and non-photographers seemed to prefer the more colourful, scenic, and what I'd describe as more postcard-like images, men and photographers tended to choose the more moody, dramatic, and B&W. I'm posting again this lockdown, but now often choose images based on what I think my audience prefer, but still get some surprises. Food for thought.
I love The Land that time forgot.
Nigel, I’m a wedding/portrait guy from the 80s/90s out of the working craft for many years. Now making my way back in and I find your work inspiring and motivating. Would you mind sharing some of the sources you’ve found for things like your packaging, shipping and presentation materials? Maybe your certificates and stamps? No one seems to cover the more practical aspects of the daily experience of selling prints. Thanks!
Awesome video Nigel! I really like these sort of videos because it demystifies some of the angles of printing images for someone like myself who is looking to sell my work in the future. Btw, your packaging for your prints looks really nice. There's lots of good details that a buyer would notice like the embossing, Pebbles sticker, etc.
Great video Nigel, thanks so much for giving us some insight into your approach.
Brilliant video as always! Thanks for taking the time to explain your process here! Very insightful for a beginner!
I love seeing your passion for print. It is so important to share the love of print and the value of a photograph as art.
I especially loved you take on the most popular images having a fantasy quality to them. I have always wondered what draws me to purchase landscape images or which ones of my own I frame and display, the common thread is exactly what you described. Thanks 🙏 it certainly helps me to refine my photography, processing and printing.
Awesome, I've been looking for a resource like this for a while. Thanks Nigel!
New subscriber, definitely one of the better channels to learn about photography and the business that revolves around it. Very helpful and would definitely look forward for more videos.
Very informative. Thanks so much for this. Yes, more of the same please - including the process of printing your book. That should take up a few episodes on its own!
Very informative, Nigel. Thanks for sharing your experience. I've love to see more videos like this.
Thank you for sharing this. I would love to see more of the process you've adopted when packaging the prints for delivery.
I love the music you open and close with!
Thank-you Nigel this was great!! SO helpful. Would love to see more on your process for selling prints. Your packaging and presentation is beautiful!! Including a stamp of authenticity takes it up even more!
I love to see how people work, what workflow they use, what tools (SW, HW, pencil, paper...) and (!) very important for me, what is the mood and atmosphere of the specific working environment. That I love the most to discover. I always look at your room in your videos, the stuff around you, your furniture, I like the good trend of stepping your room onto higher level throughout the years... Great job! And your voice is very comforting, what I appreciate a lot!
I really enjoyed this video. I love your photography, I feel really touched by your art, and inspired to keep going with my own nature photography. I also paint and I am in the process of printing my paintings and photography to offer them online. It was great to listen to you talk from your experience and I would enjoy hearing more from you.
Thank you for taking the time in sharing your experiences.
This was great. Lots of fantastic ideas packed in this video.
This was a really great video. I have been contemplating printing some of my images for potential sale and this video has helped a lot. I am not a professional photographer but many people ask me whether than can secure a copy. Food for thought!!!
This was super useful as I’ve just given my favourite photograph as a gift for Mother’s Day and the feeling I had seeing it in print was amazing. It’s also something I’m looking to do in the near future
Nigel,
I always enjoy your videos and your work. It is some of the best in landscapes. In my fifty years of photography I have made more prints (mostly darkroom) than I could ever sell. I am a much better photographer than a marketer. I think many photographers fail to ever reach an audience for their work. It is easy to focus on that aspect and lose the main desire to make new images. I recently have been donating my work and on occasions I randomly send out a large unsigned photos to unknown people that live in an area I have photographed. Keep up the good work and the inspiring videos.
Brilliant video very honest and informative.
Keep them coming!
Soooooo good and helpful Nigel. Thank you so much for sharing. 😊🙏
Perfect timing with this video. I just started printing my photos as well and it is actually unbelievable exciting. It’s such a huge difference to hold a printed version of your work in your hands instead of seeing is just one the screen.
I started selling my prints maybe 3 months ago on the streets and I actually can make a living out of it. And it’s not just the money, it is so interesting and valuable in so many ways to do this on the streets.
Katoomba, my current locations is just perfect to do so, but I can recommend to anyone to give it a go.
You will get addicted to buying different papers - I warn you 🤗
Awesome - love Katoomba and I bet your prints do very well!
Yeah, it’s actually quiet alright. Katoomba or Leura is a good place for selling. A lot of tourists from Sydney come here.
Thanks for this great overview of your experience and thought of selling prints! gave me a few things to think about.
Great video! Love anything based around the prints themselves
Mate, it's incredible how much free value you put in these videos, you are a legend. thank you
Loved this video, really helpful to me as I try to focus a lot of energy on my prints. Thanks for this
Excellent vlog, I remember a comment when I went on a course is the best feeling is to print, that way you can see things far better than the screen - so my favourite prints get printed to at least 15x10 and I tend to use different style of papers to see the different way a print reacts. I currently have a favourite picture from the recent cold weather of a frosty morning but as it was a blue and misty but it makes people feel cold and people want warmth. I feel with your photos, like your books, you research everything and making the whole process more about quality. keep up the good work
Great video as always. This is really helpful info as I've toyed with the idea a few times and now it makes a little more sense. Thank you
Brilliant! This is the best, most inspirational and artistic channel I've found. Your photos are stunning, and the advice here on how to present your images is so professional. ❤
THANK YOU!!!! Well done, Very refreshing, felt very sincere. yes more like this....Thanks for your inspiration and hope. Very much appreciate your efforts.
Your images are quite scenic and beautiful. You capture the mist and fog pretty good.
Very helpful video Nigel, thank you!
A wonderful video. I greatly appreciate your presentation, sharing your personal experience. It is good to know that there are potential customers for prints, especially the larger variety. I had begun to think that few people wanted permanent prints of images larger than those shown on their iPhone. BTW, I try to watch all your UA-cam videos. Most enjoyable. Please keep it up!
I enjoyed this and as someone who very occasionally sells the od print here and there, some of the marketing ideas were useful and thanks for sharing them.
This was great! I love the more informational videos about how you decide what business decisions to make and how they work out for you. I’m trying to do this myself, and appreciate all the tips!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really enjoyed hearing about a practice in photography that has always been very mysterious for me because I never really hear about how it is incorporated into a professional's business
Brilliant video Nigel, incredible work. 😊
My hobby started to get to a point to be handled more seriously....without loosing the fun of making pictures I started the whole process of website, select my photooos, profiling my screen and output, select paper and just start having even more fun. Thanks for helping me out...I really like your posts on your youtube channel....I might start that as well.. but will never be so good as yours. Thanks Nigel!!
I really enjoyed this video. The business side of what you do, building an audience, selling prints, running workshops really interets me, so this was great. Interesting too that the duotone, more ethereal shots sold so well.
Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts. I agree that the amount of work and time culminating into a great photo needs to be costed in the final product. Looking forward to hopefully hang one of your prints in my home soon.
This is super helpful in my infancy of landscape photography. Thanks for the great content.
I confess that when I saw the title I was not too excited with the topic. I don’t ever expect to sell any of my photos. However, I found the topic super interesting and informative. Thanks for doing something a little different and sharing your process and thinking. Really enjoyed it!
So timely as I just had an inquiry to sell my first print! I’ve been following Jack recently and his work is 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!! Thank you!
Fantastic!
This was really great, thanks! Would love to see a video on your actual workflow and process for getting an image from the computer to the printer and how you get it to the customer. For example, are you using your own printer or do you outsource it, how do you determine shipping costs, and how do you package it and what materials do you use... This would be fascinating to see.
This vlog is really useful, especially for me that I am looking at starting selling my prints. Thanks for sharing.
Such a fantastically timed video! I’d just put up some of my favourite and popular photos for print yesterday and found these tips so useful - especially the marketing part - I’m a marketer myself and didn’t even cross my mind about selling locally - I’d just assumed they’d already have a photo but I’m certainly giving that a go now! Thanks Nigel! 🙏🙌
Glad it was helpful!
Great way to start Sunday morning
Really enjoyed your video. Yes, more videos about your printing and shipping process would be great. Thanks.
Thanks a lot for this inspirational and informative video! 🧡
Thanks Nigel. Great info. Would enjoy hearing more about the business side of photography.
Great video. Videos like this help flush out the whole photographic process of getting a photo hanging on a wall. Your packaging is very classy and that helps target a specific upscale market that appreciates such things. I would buy a print for a gift for one of my clients because of it.
Thanks Nigel, I've just started selling my first few prints. The tips on marketing and presentation are really useful.
Very interesting as this topic is hardly found on other channels. Keep going, Nigel 👍
Very helpful Nigel, would very much love more insights on this in future videos. Thank you
Definitely appreciate the topic and would be very interested in more videos of this nature. Great Job and Thanks for sharing all of your advise.
Another well thought-out and equally well received video. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
I go on Instagram and like every photo from everyone I follow, I usually don't look for too long but wanna show my support to the photographers I like. Instagram just makes a lot of beautiful photos look decent and it's a bit sad.
Great topic video! Thank you!
Very interesting video Nigel. I would also be interested in seeing more videos like that, from time to time. It's somehow the behind-the-scenes of professional photography. Very insightful video.
Great video Nigel - very interesting
Thankyou so much for your honest information. Really really appreciate your info. I am currently building my website up to sell some of my prints. I am very excited about it. I really do appreciate your information to someone who just starting out very good info. Many thanks Paul
Great content. You just touched the subject, so certainly please give us more of it. How you print, where you print, three packaging materials, stamps etc 🙂
Enjoyed this very much. Your ideas on marketing are very helpful!
Thanks for the tips, I’ve just lost my job and I’m having this idea in my mind that this might be a good time to focus more on my hobby (photography) and perhaps make some money in the process. Awesome video by the way
Totally agree your approach to pricing. Your time comes at a cost.
Interesting stuff as always Nigel...I've sold my images for a while..without doubt my best (as in unique/hours spent achieving/composition/difficulty rating) images are some of my wildlife images but wildlife images just don't sell in any numbers. Not many people want a Barn Owl on their wall (sadly!!) and easily my best sellers are waves/landscapes/beaches. My take is that it helps if the image is flexible in that it can go on most walls in a house. So my best seller of a huge wave crashing over a Harris offshore rock is (as you mention) 2-3 pastel colours dominating, some drama, small details that draw you back to it and could go on any wall in any room in the house. Innocuous and easy on the eye seem the key factors ! Agree with you re pricing as well. All photographers should value their work and time properly.
Really insightful video Nigel, some amazing images and hope to be able to afford one in the future 👏👏
Really interesting video for an aspiring landscape photographer and must say I absolutely love your images they are outstanding!
Thank you Nigel. Just amazing how much field you covered on this video in just 20 minutes. Of Course!!! Keep on doing this type of videos, we all love photography but also, is not only just try to sell for the money, but to have the satisfaction of knowing that someone else, besides us, likes our way to see and show the world. Once again, Thanks.
Thanks
A very useful video thank you Nigel
Just discussed your UA-cam & work! Love it, making me inspired to pick up my camera again.
Different things always add a different angle so I would enjoy those videos as much as your usual format 👍
Excellent insight!
Thanx a lot for the video!
Thanks Nigel, thoroughly enjoyed your video, looking at your fabulous images, and gaining an insight to your marketing process. John.
Thanks so much for making this video. There is a real need for more information and ideas about printing, marketing and selling. I have liked your technicahl videos for some time and I hope you will make more like this.
Thank you Nigel for such an inspiring video. Those shots at the end were stunning. It really was worth doing the tripod challenge to get those. I often move from a location too soon and it is too late when I realise that the best light had yet to come.
My idea for a challenge would be to shoot with a prime lens. It may not be the most ideal for landscape photography but therein lies the challenge. I would also love to see you take just a prime lens into the woodland. This is going to be my own next challenge.
I agree that reducing the variables does help to improve our photography.
Happy New Year and I look forward to all you will bring to us in 2022. Stay safe.
Thanks Nigel this was interesting to know. I think all your images are worth the price you've set! My personal favourite is called Fleeting light, Estrahorn!
Your photography makes me sooooo excited to do some of my own
Love this video. I’ve sold a few prints but had to figure out how to be really successful at it. Love your content overall but would like to see more like this mixed in
Very interesting! Thank you very much!
Very Informative, Thank you!!
Excellent video! A lot of really good comments too.