How to Print, Price and Sell Your Photography

Today I’m gonna take you behind the scenes and show you how to make, print, price, package and sell your photography.

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0:00 Intro
1:03 Making the Image
5:09 Printing w/ Canon Pro 1000
9:45 Pricing Your Work
13:45 Selling Prints
16:56 Packaging and Shipping the Print

[whafrog]

Thank you so much for posting this, I think you're the first person I've seen who actually breaks down the pricing in a realistic way. Your honesty is so appreciated!

[monkeysausageclub]

2% making pictures, 3% printing, 95% marketing. So long as people know that successful marketing is the keys. If people don't know you exist they won't buy prints. I would also recommend staying away from these print on demand type websites.. The likely hood of you appearing on the top of the search results is almost zero unless your picture is very very niche.

[jerryrose]

I’ve really got into walking and photography now, I’ve built up a following of over 3000 on fb, I’ve had a couple of photos put on the bbc weather which felt brilliant. Thanks for the inspiration, hopefully one day someone will want to buy one of my photos.

[JohnDrummondPhoto]

The Pro 1000 printer is out of my price range as an amateur. But I'm very happy with my Canon PIXMA Pro 200. It's $550 USD, uses 8 cartridges, and takes paper up to 13" x 19" (A3+), or pano paper up to 13" x 39" via the rear feeder.

[thomasfarley]

Thank you for this insightful video. I use a lab to print C types and I have mounted 15x10 prints of mainly local scenes on sale in a local coffee/gift shop. They are £30 each. Feedback from potential customers is: "they are too expensive", or " I could have taken that!" Even mounted 7x5 prints at a tenner each have been slow sellers!

[cathynuttall]

I love your passion when out in the field, i feel it so much when I am out doing the Landscape shots.

[Oni_wrangler]

I'm just getting started on my photography adventure and I gotta tell you - This is the clearest and most concise breakdown of this process I've come across. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, skills and talent.

[edubbwebber]

Thank you. I am inspired about printing my images and investing in my business.

[tedbrown]

The old business adage is true, the 80/20 principle where 80% of your sales come from the 20% of your customers. I recently bought the Canon Image Pro 300 and the prints are fantastic.

[itsdonnairene]

I really loved this video! I've been a professional photographer for 12+ years, I have traveled to 40 countries, but I've never sold my work. Due to some health issues I had to quit my commercial photography career and am looking to pursue fine art full time so I can work on my own time. It's daunting when you know your work would make amazing art but there's so much involved besides the actual art making so this was super helpful!

[connorobren]

This is such an insanely helpful video. I just started selling some prints in a local shop and had no idea how to go about the whole process. Thank you so much Adam!!

[h-dawg]

I’m purchasing a canon pro 200 this week. I’ve been undecided between the 200 and 300 but think that the 200 is ideal for my first proper photographic printer. Really looking forward to it and your videos have been loads of help. Cheers.

[JohnGarghan]

Love your pricing formula and promoting buying other artists work

[mvp_kryptonite]

I have printed a few pictures of mine over the years and purchased my sister a Selphy printer that she loves and I got one too just the other day. Fed up of the useless non pro Pixma range so my daughters can use the Selphy. Printing is cool and should be part of everyone’s workflow regardless of if they are sold or not.

[FabienMathey]

I got the Pro-1000 about a year ago. It was on sale for 800EUR. I was still hesitant because it is a lot of change. But, oh my word! The prints that come out of it! I don’t think I will ever be able to go back! And printing the work is so enjoyable! I can only recommend to get a printer.

[jcat]

Thanks for another great one, Adam. If I have a "regret" as a long time hobbyist photographer it's that I haven't printed nearly enough since "going digital" in 2006. I've been working on fixing that for the last year or so, although I've yet to take the plunge for the gear to produce the physical print and still rely on others for that (for now). It's definitely been wonderful putting my hands on more of my photos and I even did a small run of 75 2022 calendars that were a hit and shipped to half a dozen US states (which surprised me since they were all images from my small county).

Keep the great content coming!

[Ruscombephotos]

Adam,
Many thanks for this video. I have been looking for a step-by-step guide on how to do this for some time. In order to get there, I need to invest in a printer and also invest the time I need to take to generate that buzz you describe.

I have photographed a lot more things locally with a view to building a local audience and also, this year, cut down on mileage and petrol costs and reduce my carbon footprint a bit.

One thing you made clear is that using a lab to print my work will reduce or eliminate any margin that can be made, so having my own printer is key.

It’s going to take me a while to get there, but I believe your video will be an invaluable reference to return to when my time comes.

Thanks again!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.

Anthony

[TheMikey]

Amazing work ….this is exactly what into do with my work

[angelogrieco]

Is there any cheaper printer option, very budget friendly, to start deeping your feet into it and understand if that's something it might work for you?

[tokyodave]

Thanks for posting this Adam.I went to the Canon showroom in Ginza Tokyo today to have a look at the PRO1000. Beautiful showroom. I was treated like a valuable customer. They made two A2-size prints for me of a winter garden scene that I had photographed. (No charge). When the time comes later this year, of course I will buy the printer from them. Thanks for the heads up on the printer and for the other valuable information contained in this video. Cheers. Dave.