I guess I'm bottom feeding, but I sell bagged, signed, single mat prints for $35 for 11x14 and $50 for 16x20 (that's the matted size - 8x10 and 11x14 (roughly) prints in each.)
Framed at $75 for 11x14 and $125 for 16x20 - simple black rail framing. All are signed, no limited editions. I've been out of the game for a year or so (starting up again this fall) but these were for local art fairs, clear bagged prints in bins. I went for a large variety of prints and would stock ~250 unique images. On a good day I could move a few dozen prints, plus lots of note cards at $3 a pop. I've sold large (huge) prints in local gallery shows for as much as $1200 - exquisitely framed and matted(which means - not done by me.) My prices are pretty much in line with what I see locally. These are ink jet prints - hand pulled photos command a higher price locally - but probably not enough more to cover the additional cost and time it takes to produce them. The economics of selling prints are a bear. Every print that is sold has to 1) pay for itself in terms of materials, 2) pay the gallery's share or cover the entrance fee to the art fair, 3) pay for the time it took to shoot, adjust, and prep the image, 4) pay for the prints that don't sell, and 5) pay for production waste - the miscut mats, gummed up prints, stuff stolen when your back is turned. And that's not even tagging the cost of photo gear, insurance, and other over head to it. #4 is the toughest to figure out - because on one hand your inventory is an asset, but on the other as it gets older, it eventually becomes a liability. --- Norm Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 8'x10 ; 11x14 RC paper. > Norm > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -------------------------- Mark Cassino Photography Kalamamazoo, MI www.markcassino.com Photo Books: www.lulu.com/cassino -------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
