| Author | Message | ||
     Pdxs3t |
Need all you Bad Webers' thoughts. If I can get you all to take a look at the sample web page http://home.comcast.net/~jimandshel/ I have created, and let me know in the thread by photo number which ones you think people might be willing to pay money for. This would greatly help me determine what people like and thin em out a bit. Thanks Jim edited by blake on June 07, 2004 | ||
| Dasxb9s |
WOW... The stuff looks great! Nice layout, good resolution on the images posted, good eye for photos!!! They all look fantastic... why don't my photos look that good??? Could it be lack of talent??? LOL I might suggest you watermark the displayed images (and/or copyright mark them) so you don't have people downloading them and printing there own or posting them elsewhere. Good luck!!! | ||
| Seanp |
Nice pics! How do you plan on advertising? Are you going to pay to have your site featured on Yahoo or something, or just by word of mouth? You might want to make the site a little flashier, just to catch people's attention. And DasX has a good point - you'll want to figure out a way to make it so that people either can't download them at all, (protect the right-click feature) or watermark them so that anyone who sees them knows they're yours. Good luck with that. I'd like to hear how it goes - I'm just starting to design my own site now, using Dreamweaver, and it's proving to be a bigger task than I thought. I want to sell my photos eventually too, (if anyone'll buy them!) but first I want to make the site nice. I've got a buttload of pics that I've taken out here. I've taken over 8,000 pictures, and a couple of hundred of them are really awesome. I just want to get them up on a website! Good luck with everything, and nice photos! Sean | ||
| Smkdm2 |
Have you looked into Photographers Market? It's a book on selling your photos. Mainly for stock photo stuff. I've never found a real good way to sell general photography on my own site. I mainly shoot sports, so selling to participants in the event is usually how it works for me. If you have a lot of certain types of images you may find a clearing house in Photographers Market that would accept a submission of your work and buy your photos. Photography is getting tough to sell for the average person. Everyone has a digital camera these days and they figure their image is just as good. It's tough out there. I was shooting softball last weekend and was taking a team photo, one of the parents was standing next to me taking the same shot. When the team came by to look at our shot the parent was saying to some of the people, "hey I got that shot, I'll print one off my printer for you". I wanted to slap her. What saved us is ours was there and printed on a Dye Sub printer and we sold about 15 of them. Just curious, what camera are you shooting and lens? I've currently got a D100 and my main lens is a Nikkor 80-200 F2.8 silent wave. I also go to Photosig.com to post and critique photos. It's a big site and the critiques can be hit or miss, but I enjoy it none the less. | ||
| Blake |
Jim, I revised your opening post to eliminate any appearance of an advertisement. Thank you for understanding and honoring BadWeB policy on that issue. As to your photos... VERY Nice! But, personally speaking if it isn't a photo of something near and dear to me or a photo that I've taken or of a place I've enjoyed visiting, I'm not inclined to purchase. My favorite though is the closeup of the XB12 engine area. | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Blake, Thank you for your edit and please accept my apology on my wording in the opening post, just wanted to gain input on the photos, nothing more then that. Also, thanks for you input on the XB12 engine photo, that is exactly what I was looking for.  Dasxb9s, Thanks for your kind words, with a little practice, I'm sure your photos would look even better! Seanp, Right now, my web site is by word of mouth and a lot of local networking. I do a lot of free work as of lately just to meet people and get my name known here in the Portland metro area. The web page where these photos are posted is just a temporary web page that I created just for this purpose. I didn't want to use my actual photography web site because of the Bad Web policies on advertisement. Its not a good thing to be spanked by Blake. Smkdm2, It is tough selling regular photography from a site, one of the reasons why I wanted to get some input and then make a decision whether or not I will actually move forward with the idea on my photography site. I currently use an Olympus E-10 Fixed lens which is f2.0 9-36mm (35-140mm in 35mm) and also use a TCON 14-B teleconverter which brings it up to a 200mm 35mm. | ||
| M2me |
I really like the nature scene photos the best. Especially photos 2, 3, 6, 22 (that's awesome) and 43. The bike pictures are nice, but bike photos like that seem to be a dime a dozen. I know that's easy for me to say, but the nature photos just stood out more for me. | ||
| Pdxs3t |
M2me, Thank you for your input. Here is a shot of the same eagle in flight.  |
