http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/how-to-sell-prints-a-new-free-guide-from-photoshel/ Daily discussion of photography business issues & photography websites. Marketing and sales tips for smart photographers, plus a dose of inspiration from the PhotoShelter team. Fri, 24 May 2013 13:36:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/how-to-sell-prints-a-new-free-guide-from-photoshel/#comment-18907 Harald Johnson Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:53:28 +0000 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/how-to-sell-prints-a-new-free-guide-from-photoshel/#comment-18907 Yo PhotoShelter! Very informative PDF "How to Sell Prints". Lots of good ideas and motivations for the "poor step child of photography" -- photo printing. Printing is still a big business (just ask companies like HP, Epson, and Canon), and there's no reason photographers can't maximize its opportunities. One small quibble: on page 26, you state "There are no industry standards for testing inks and papers, so despite manufacturer claims of archival inks and papers lasting 100 years, there’s no empirical evidence to back it up." While it's true that there still are no universally accepted testing standards, there is lots of empirical evidence about print permanence. Just visit the two main sites that cover this: Wilhelm Imaging Research and Aardenburg-Imaging. Happy printing! Harald Johnson author, "Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition" digital imaging and printing consultant Yo PhotoShelter! Very informative PDF “How to Sell Prints”. Lots of good ideas and motivations for the “poor step child of photography” — photo printing. Printing is still a big business (just ask companies like HP, Epson, and Canon), and there’s no reason photographers can’t maximize its opportunities. One small quibble: on page 26, you state “There are no industry standards for testing inks and papers, so despite manufacturer claims of archival inks and papers lasting 100 years, there’s no empirical evidence to back it up.” While it’s true that there still are no universally accepted testing standards, there is lots of empirical evidence about print permanence. Just visit the two main sites that cover this: Wilhelm Imaging Research and Aardenburg-Imaging. Happy printing! Harald Johnson author, “Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition” digital imaging and printing consultant

]]> http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/how-to-sell-prints-a-new-free-guide-from-photoshel/#comment-18906 olli Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:32:25 +0000 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/how-to-sell-prints-a-new-free-guide-from-photoshel/#comment-18906 Hi folks. I've only recently discovered this blog and just want to take a moment to say thanks for all the great content and this and your other guides. I've downloaded them all and they are excellent. I will confess to being on smugmug but, who knows, if I follow your advice and actually start making some money I might make it over to photoshelter eventually. Hi folks. I’ve only recently discovered this blog and just want to take a moment to say thanks for all the great content and this and your other guides. I’ve downloaded them all and they are excellent. I will confess to being on smugmug but, who knows, if I follow your advice and actually start making some money I might make it over to photoshelter eventually.

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