Selling your photos to dive guests

[justleesa]

mike, what version of Pinnacle Studio do you have?

 

[Mike Veitch]

mike, what version of Pinnacle Studio do you have?

I used Studio 9 for the slide show, i currently have 10 cuz i went to an HD video camera....

 

[justleesa]

Thanks Mike

 

[justleesa]

Anybody else making a business out of selling their pictures to tourists? How do you do it???

 

[onfloat]

I always thought that was what you and Cathrine did. Not together of course.

 

[justleesa]

it isn't my main thing - more for fun....if someone asks I'm always a bit shy about it. Just wondering how others handle it...so I can do it better.

 

[Scubatooth]

leesa

im not in a tourist market(diving atleast) but when i travel anywhere (diving or not) i always look and see what is available in the area for artwork (both paintings and photos). the best presentations have been prints that were matted and framed and hanging in the walls of dive shops and local coffee shops (and the like).

from talking to the owners of the place the prints seem to sell well, usually the prints on the wall were for sale (either print by themselves or matted/framed) but mainly the artist was able to sell copies of the one on the wall (except for some of the black and white prints i have seen because they where hand done) as the wall prints where display pieces mainly.

if i where in an area like that, this is what i would do.

FWIW

Tooth

 

[justleesa]

Thanks Tooth! that was helpful and interesting!!

now tell me...what size print would you go for?

 

[Mike Veitch]

Prints are hard in a place like this. Lots of luggage, limited luggage allowance, many planes to catch.....

Tough to sell anything bigger than an 8.5 x 11....

 

[justleesa]

would that be 8.5x11 the print or the matt?