Comments on: Setting Prices for Your Photos

By: andrew Hawes

andrew Hawes — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:47:10 +0000

I worked as a news photographer in eary 70's , from there i went in to commerical photograpy. Did ever thing right as best i new . I bought a blue book it told what photographer across the u.s. charge for services. I would like to have the very simplest guide as what to charge, including usage. thks. andrew

By: canvas printing

canvas printing — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:41:25 +0000

It's so hard trying to find a middle ground as to paying bills and pleasing customers. our world is obsessed with 'cheap', customers want to pay the same for a print as they do to print holiday snaps at a shop!

By: Photography News

Photography News — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:49:07 +0000

I agree it's difficult, I have recently met up with the administrators of this site and they will let you keep 100% of the commission from selling your work and they have a good site

By: Justin Plunkett

Justin Plunkett — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:05:46 +0000

Please do not confuse my site with anything photographic in nature.

My question relates to trying to sell framed or unframed photos at "wine tastings", where money flows as freely as the booze. I have many local photos that are unique and it seems to me that I may have a good target market with what I have described.

What do you think?

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:31:12 +0000

What is market value when selling to textbook companies?

By: canvas prints

canvas prints — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:41:53 +0000

Good article. With large online stock photo agencies now selling images for next to nothing it's easy for a photographer to undervalue ones self. I'm not against sites like istockphoto and fotolia as I think they're great resources but it can lead to images elsewhere being under valued.

By: Digital Scene

Digital Scene — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:44:52 +0000

Phots are sold to freely and easily, as well as stolen over the web. Consider the time you have spent working on learning your trade and trust that your work is worth a "reasonable" value. As said above, your ability has a price and it reflects on others, so be fair

By: The Photo Rebellion

The Photo Rebellion — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:14:32 +0000

To many photographers under value their images and give them away. Photographers get sucked into having an image "Published" and Art Buyers know this. Unless the published work is with a high profile publication, Art buyers could care less that you have an image printed in Quilting Today. Who cares is the photography community that is struggling as a whole to to keep compensation fair. I have beef with Hacks and weekend photographers trying to make a fast dollar and killing this lively hood I love. If you want to shoot part time and sell your images that's fine, just price them at market value.

By: Fotografi

Fotografi — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:44:45 +0000

Setting the right price is not easy.
First you have to do nice picture than to prepare them to the market... An huge amount of work.