Yeehaaa! I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it!

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

05/18/2005 05:30:53 AM · #1

I have sold prints via DPC Prints for a while, though all but 13 sales were part of the charity project I finished recently. And the prints I gave to the charity auction last month sold for silly money that I could only dream about achieving in normal sales.

But, today I sold two 8x10 prints, to be matted up (final size = 30x40cm) and signed on the matte, on my own!

Basically, I had some inexpensive DPC Prints business cards done up when I did my charity project but had the foresight not to include any text specific to the project. All I put was the Tomboy image which fills the whole card but fades at the bottom where the text goes, and the text "Photography by Kavita Favelle" and my DPCPrints web address. And then Vistaprint sent me one of their regular offers to try for free the new business card magnets - just paying postage. So I did that and got magnets of that same card.

Well I gave a couple of these magnets to some people I work with and one gave his to his girlfriend for her fridge and she took the time to write to me, someone she didn't even know, to say how much she liked my work! Since then we've emailed, hope to meet up socially and today I just made this sale to her. I hope I'm not under or overcharging - I said Â£25 each for the two matted prints.

suemack

Canon EOS-20D

05/18/2005 05:42:01 AM · #2

Woooohoooo!! Congrats Kavey

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

05/18/2005 06:00:41 AM · #3

Thanks, Sue! It's my first private sale!

suemack

Canon EOS-20D

05/18/2005 06:13:21 AM · #4

Now that surprises me Kavey. You have so many gorgeous images in your gallery. Get out there with those business cards and spread the word.

05/18/2005 06:34:43 AM · #5

I want to... I just don't know how...

Sales has never been a strong suit of mine...

Olympus TCON-14B 1.45x Teleconverter

05/18/2005 06:52:08 AM · #6

Oh wait. DUH. Second sale.
One of the people at the charity auction liked one of the prints (Blue and Gold) so approached me later to ask if she could buy one. Instead of price, we negotiated a swap - the print matted and signed for a book of fabulous photographs her company had released recently.
That sort of counts as a sale, I guess.

om10

Olympus E-20P

05/18/2005 06:57:57 AM · #7

Im suprised youve not sold more kavita. your an excellent photographer. well done.

lentil

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L USM

05/18/2005 06:58:37 AM · #8

that is so great for you Kavey. How exciting, I am sure you are on cloud 9 and rightly so your photos are gorgeous. Enjoy what i am sure wont be your last sale

Lisa

rex

Canon PowerShot SD780

05/18/2005 07:29:47 AM · #9

Add me to the surprised people that can't believe you haven't sold more. You have some great work in there and if you get out there you could get a lot more sales generated. Congrats to you.

05/18/2005 07:34:10 AM · #10

Aaw thanks guys!
I do have two planned approaches in mind at the moment:

1) To approach local cafes, restaurants and galleries to see if they will hang/ sell my work

2) To get some of my images onto stock agencies (such as Alamy)

In terms of private sales I don't know where to start really... these ones just kind of happened!

Also, I'm don't know whether I should sell prints of the same images I then put up at a site like Alamy. I know that even those stock agencies that want exclusivity don't generally stop the photographer from selling using their own images for private prints, sales, exhibition etc but I don't know what the normal (professional?) approach is...

rex

Canon PowerShot SD780

05/18/2005 08:30:07 AM · #11

One question for you off subject. Why haven't you entered any challenges lately? If you don't want the 20D you can give it to me. ;-)