Thinking About Selling Photos

So, I'm thinking about settings up a site to offer some images for sale, prints...

I've had the idea for a while, and have made a couple of false starts in setup things in the past.

A couple of years ago I tried SmugMug, and a year later I setup a little thing on CafePress.

Now I think I will pick a limited amount of images, and give it a try again. I built a rough collection of images to choose from, and sorted them in to about 5 categories: Air Planes, Animals (wild), Animals (captive), Lanscapes & Flowers, and finally Creative/Altered/Fantasy for manipulated images. I plan to keep it pretty tight on the amount of images, maybe less than 50 total, just a few pages worth.

Here are few samples of what I will be picking from:








Once I get the images selected that I want to use, I'm probably going to re-edit them all to maximize the resolution / adjust or remove crop, and get the edits just right with whatever new things I've learned since I last edited each.

If you have setup something (a web site), and sold some photos, please shoot me a comment here or on flickr. How did you promote it, and what kind of volume were you able to do? And post a link if you want here to your store...

-Jon

About me:

Photography (film based) was first an interest of mine in high school and then college, but many many years passed. It wasn't until I went from a point and shoot digital camera, to a digital SLR that I started to get really excited (~Aug2005).

Thinking About Selling Photos