I feel that I now need to offer some kind of explanation/justification of the 'digital' thing to support my work, the prices I charge (around �60 per A3print, mounted, unframed),
Caroline,
You are an artist and what you are charging for, surely, is your ability to create, not the means by which it is created - no explanation is necessary.
We are portrait photographers and, since going digital two years ago, have alway printed everything to inkjet. We too felt that we had to 'justify;' the change and, perhaps as a consequence of our demeanour etc, did get comments like - "well your prints will be cheaper now"!
Now we make no apology for working purely digitally, in fact we celebrate it, and we do not have price queries - in fact our clients spend more than they did when the output ws film based.
As far as inkjets fading is concerned - the only ones our clients have returned (and even these are less than 10 in thousands produced) were printed using dye-based inks.
We now use pigment-based inks only.
How much of this problem is in the eye of the beholder?!! As photographers, we so often see a problem where it does not exist.
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