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A few "Tourist" shots…
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Hi,
Went down to a local shop in Kilkeel and we got talking about framing, which led to him offering to buy some local landscape prints to frame and then sell in his shop. Happy days :D
Took some of them down on Saturday and he said that people don’t buy the kind of shots i was taking. Now… the shots i took were as follows (small size):
I also threw in these, primarily because they were local rather than good IMO:
So which did he like?
The last three!!!
So i am now in the process of trawling through all the rejects on my HDD to find sellable pics!!! LOL
Has anyone else had this experience? I’m currently out trying to shoot some more standard shots including an airborne shot of the harbour at Kilkeel. £20 to ba taken up and got 3 passes plus a cuppa and a chat with the pilot afterwards…!
I am also seeing the appeal of these shots too now. I took around 1.5gig yesterday from 4am til 10am and i actually do like them more than i thought i would. Whether because i am trying to take that kind of shot and doing a better job or i am looking at them in a new light, i don’t know?
Anyone else sell em to shops and have experience?
In my opinion all of these are very good.
I don’t have any experience of selling photos but I think that there are two ways of looking at this – as a photographer pictures 7 & 10 are the strongest because of the foreground interest and general drama. (Number 10 is particularly good)
But as a tourist, I think #s 8 & 9 would be the most likely choice as they do have a picture postcard feel.If picture # 10 appeals to the market I think you will do well with it. Nice job and best of luck with this.
BTW, here are some i did yesterday in my new role as Scenery Salesman… :)
…now for the ones i think they’ll like…
tried everything except walking a mile North to get rid of my long shadow ;)
overcooked?I can see why they would sell too. Because if you close your eyes and imagine Cousin Jed pointing a grubby finger to the framed photo on the wall back in the states: “Aynd thiys iys whure mah boat was parked aynd thiys is thee harbour mouwth, y’awl! Ye-HAW etc etc. LOL
I don’t have that much experience with selling prints, but what I usually easyly sell is black and white, abstract or my landscapes taken with a long lens (details, shapes grabbed out of the landscape). The sunsets/sunrises are very common, and they are hard to fit in an interior design in my opinion… ships, fields, mountains, they are much better for decoration.
Just think about what would YOU put on your wall in the living room, and that will make the choice easier.
Lusk Round Tower, White Water, WIndmill, Ben Crom Steps… I would try those ones, and the windmill has a very good chance in my opinion.
Good Luck!
Zoltan
PS. Just one more thing, Respect your Customers or future customers!
The first set has a lot more than the second that i would conisder for printing, but you have some lens curve and un-level horizons to sort before you do anything with a lot of them !
The 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 7th images would be your best bet i would say for print sale’s.
Ricky.
richy5497 wrote:
BTW, here are some i did yesterday in my new role as Scenery Salesman… :)
overcooked?
Yes.
Who is your target audience – people who want scenic wallpaper as a reminder of their journey
or people who want art, and want to have to think about it?Your framer sounds as if he thinks it is the former group – Joe Public – who will buy ‘artistic’
scenes of the Mournes – the same people who buy chocolate boxes and John Hinde postcards
and ‘wonderful Ireland’ calendars. He’s probably right; do you take pix for them or for yourself?RGH_Photography wrote:
The first set has a lot more than the second that i would conisder for printing, but you have some lens curve and un-level horizons to sort before you do anything with a lot of them !
Lens curve? thats a new one to me, what is it, what causes it, what pics have it and how can i fix it?
2, 3 & 7 have all been affected. You can check by opening your image in Photoshop and dragging down a horizontal guide line and place it over the horizon.
Its basicly your lens that is to blame but its quite normal to get distortion now and again if you are using wide angle, while normal and telephoto lenses create little or no distortion!
It can be fixed with CS2/3 using the Filter/Lens Distortion and takes only few seconds the same tool can also be used to straighten up horizons.Hope thats answered your questions.
Ricky.In your second set of pics..
what did you do to the water(regards shoppin) in the first pic?..
djbowlz wrote:
In your second set of pics..
what did you do to the water(regards shoppin) in the first pic?..
Nuthing? Shoppin was a little levels, curves and a little saturation, no sharpening. The water was very calm on the dayCamera settings were: f11, 1/125, ISO200, 53mm, Highlight tone priority on.
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