It’s been a while since I decided to sell my photos.
I guess many photographers have this in mind at some point. For the rest of this post lets forget the why behind the reason and focus only on the prints. When it comes to selling photos you have two options – sell digital or sell physical prints. Three options if you decide to sell both.
Selling digital photos are the easiest option. Setup a store front and make the product downloadable after purchase. Done. No shipping, no printing.
Selling physical prints of your photos tends to be a bit more messy. I live in South Africa so I suspect it will be messier (more expensive, logistically a bit more difficult) than someone living in the US. My primary concern was the shipping and then the printing.
I’m still working on the shipping but over the past week I printed some of my photos I want to sell. To see a few things:
- The quality isn’t bad. From the images I can see my photo quality isn’t as bad as I initially thought. I printed photos from my Canon 1300D (18MP) and I printed photos from my Fujifilm XE-2 (16MP) and both results are fairly good.
- Paper quality. For a photo which will be framed I suspect the paper will do the trick. From the printer’s website “crafted on Fuji Lustre paper using a high-quality wetlab printer“.
My big questions now are mostly related to the paper quality. What is a good enough quality paper for selling photos? Then another one pops up. What is a good size – I’ve been looking at some other photographers selling prints and A4, A3 & A2 tend to be popular sizes.
Overall I’m happy with the process. Mostly done online and if I need to ship locally I could even let the person doing the printing handle the shipping.
In closing.
I’d like to hear from anyone else who sells their photos. What are some of the challenges you’ve had?
Thanks for reading : )