Hi all,
I decided to have a go at selling framed prints of some of my photos. It's been a heckuva mad rush to get things set up before Xmas - this past week has been especially hectic - but I've set up a stall in a local craft shop. It's quite a good deal really, you hire your choice of the available stalls and pay a monthly rental based on the size. They handle all the retail side so all I have to do is maintain the stall and replenish the stock.
Basically it's a very low-risk way of getting my work out into the marketplace.
For the initial stock it was more of a matter of just grabbing whatever I had that was of saleable quality. I have about a dozen of my own prints that I've framed but only half of them were really good enough - the others suffered from some difficulties in the mounting process (I didn't glue them well and if the light is right you can see how the print has blistered slightly).
I think I have all of the photos online somewhere... let's have a look:
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/cgi-bin/paw.cgi?date=13-Mar-2004
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/cgi-bin/paw.cgi?date=17-Apr-2004
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/cgi-bin/paw.cgi?date=5-Jun-2004
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/cgi-bin/paw.cgi?date=25-Sep-2004
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/pans/mt_cook.jpg
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/s_cloud.jpg (this is the full frame: the print has a bit cropped off the right)
I have another half-dozen prints waiting to be framed so I'll get those done this week. Might do some more printing as well.
I'd also like to sell mounted prints but I need to find a good way of packaging them. Eventually I plan to offer prints for sale online, once I set up the credit card processing facility (oh and after I get my website done).
Maybe I'll be able to start catching up on my missed PAWs tomorrow...
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
