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Price is now up and the two that are on sale for two more day I have marked "when sale finishes they will be restored to the new higher price"
Following the members pricing blog on Artfinder several artists say photographers should charge much lower prices as painters take days to paint a picture and we photographers can take many in a day and print as many copies as we like. One also said that photography is so easy now that anybody can take a picture with a modern camera so photos have no serious worth or value! (I note and do agree with Eric remarks about my artist friend.)
I said in the blog that I was not selling as some of my photographer friends (ie our friends here) said I was far to low so am raising the prices at once.
I have now done so so lets see what happens.Like many long standing photographers I think my pictures do have some worth as I have been doing it full time all my working life since 1960, I must have picked up a trick or two while most of the time made a good living at it!
I know a watercolour artist who maintains he never works longer than two hours on any painting. I've spent longer on photoshop with some images.
The originals he sells for £1000+ after he has made limited prints of 50...to sell at a 'few hundred' .
I also know a photographer (actually he's not a serious one or that proficient a photographer) who took photos of all the derelict USA WW2 airbases in East Anglia. He did some average quality black and white prints of them and they sold like hot cakes in the USA.
I have long felt it's all down to finding the niche for your work...then advertising it to that specific audience. Plonking photos together with other art forms is a dilution of that effort. IMHO.
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Eric