It's that time again. You know the one where I debate photography as a career or at least as a means of paying for itself until I make it big. You know…
- Make Photographs
- ???
- Live happily ever after.
In this installment I'm trying to gauge what a reasonable price might be for my work. Not the price I'd charge in a gallery, or even the price I'd charge from an online store containing my best work. I'll get to that. Right now, I'm looking for a reasonable price to charge for the images I put in Arranging Light on a slightly-regular basis. Once that's going, I'll start arranging my work into a set of galleries that will sell for a bit more.
The thought is I'll offer most of the images there at low price for a limited time after publication. Right now, I'm thinking I'll leave them for sale at this price for roughly one month after the first copy of an image sells. I'm also planning on computing my exact profit and offering a download only version of the image at that price for those that prefer to print themselves and save a bit on shipping.
So, I'm wondering… what do you think a fair price is? Not what I deserve for my work, or what you'd talk someone else into paying for my work, but what you, yourself, would consider a fair enough price to convince you to purchase an image you liked on impulse.
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Thanks for your input. It means a lot.
