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Flickering_Ember wrote: »I am on Photobox but cannot find how to price and sell my prints; can someone please point me in the right direction?
You need to have a ProGallery.
It's been a while since i set mine up but it's nothing complicated nor do you have to be a professional! It simply allows you to set the prices for your prints.
Keen photographer with sales in the UK and abroad.
Willing to offer advice on camera equipment and photography if i can!0 -
Has anyone got any advice on buying a new camera, i mainly use my camera for concert photography. I currently have a Nikon Coolpix S4 and have been complimented on the photographs i have taken, but would like to try and take it to the next stage, any advice would be gratefully received
I had a quick look at a review for the S4 and it has a 10x optical lens. That's quite good so most compacts wouldn't improve on that by much if anything.
Next step up maight be a Digital SLR.
To achieve a 10x zoom on a DSLR costs big money for a good lens. And you'd need a good fast lens for concerts since the light will most likely be dimmed with spotlights.
Without having seen your photos I have to ask - who has complimented you on them? is it family? friends? bands?
The reason i ask is because family and friends will almost always be complimentary even if the shots are just ok. If your shots are "just ok" then moving to the next level with your equipment wouldn't be the best thing to do. You'd be better to improve to the point where your equipment is limiting you.
Also spending hundreds of pounds on equipment for concerts and nothing else may also be unwise - especially if you don't sell them. DSLR and a good lens could easily be £1500 so practising on lots of subjects to broaden your experience may also help improve chances of selling images.
Don't take the above the wrong way - I realise your photos may be excellent and the camera is limiting you but always be aware that a better camera doesn't mean better photos.
It's the photographer that takes the picture - not the camera.
Keen photographer with sales in the UK and abroad.
Willing to offer advice on camera equipment and photography if i can!0 -
Haven't seen that condition before but that's not to say it doesn't exist. I have seen conditions that stipulate any image submitted can be used by the company for promotional purposes in any and all markets and in all types of media eg brochures, websites, magazines etc.
Any competition that has "I can sell your image if you enter" is really dodgy I'd suggest.
I wouldn't enter a competition if that was the case.
Sadly the condition is never obvious it is hidden in the terms and conditions. You can see some examples here.....
http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/category/20/68/170/0 -
Sadly the condition is never obvious it is hidden in the terms and conditions. You can see some examples here.....
http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/category/20/68/170/
Or how about this from the ITV website; there are not many rights that they are not claiming....
By making a Submission to our Website, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free and transferable licence (with the right to sub-license) to use, edit, reproduce, record, modify, translate, distribute, play, perform, make available to the other users of the Services, prepare derivative works of and to display your Submission by any medium or method whether now known or later developed to be exercised in our sole discretion throughout the world for the full term of copyright and other rights and all renewable and extension thereof including, for the avoidance of doubt, the right to register any design rights and/or trademarks. You agree to waive your moral rights in your Submission.0 -
I had a quick look at a review for the S4 and it has a 10x optical lens. That's quite good so most compacts wouldn't improve on that by much if anything.
Next step up maight be a Digital SLR.
To achieve a 10x zoom on a DSLR costs big money for a good lens. And you'd need a good fast lens for concerts since the light will most likely be dimmed with spotlights.
Without having seen your photos I have to ask - who has complimented you on them? is it family? friends? bands?
The reason i ask is because family and friends will almost always be complimentary even if the shots are just ok. If your shots are "just ok" then moving to the next level with your equipment wouldn't be the best thing to do. You'd be better to improve to the point where your equipment is limiting you.
Also spending hundreds of pounds on equipment for concerts and nothing else may also be unwise - especially if you don't sell them. DSLR and a good lens could easily be £1500 so practising on lots of subjects to broaden your experience may also help improve chances of selling images.
Don't take the above the wrong way - I realise your photos may be excellent and the camera is limiting you but always be aware that a better camera doesn't mean better photos.
It's the photographer that takes the picture - not the camera.
Thanks for the advice, i've never done any courses, just enjoy taking pictures at concerts. All different people have commented on my pictures, friends, colleagues, even band members and a few have made it into unofficial calendars. Would love to improve on them in any way possible and of course to make money from them would be fantastic.0 -
You need to have a ProGallery.
It's been a while since i set mine up but it's nothing complicated nor do you have to be a professional! It simply allows you to set the prices for your prints.
Thanks, and damn...I have to wait til they have the new site before i can use the ProGallery as I did not have one set up already.0 -
Is there anywhere else I can sell photos online? I am UK based...0
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Flickering_Ember wrote: »Is there anywhere else I can sell photos online? I am UK based...
Anyone? I am new to all this as I never used to own a computer so could not use my photos or online.0 -
This thread was getting buried...still need help on this if anyone can help, please?0
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Firstly, I would like to thank everybody for their input to this great forum, and especially the effort that Krazy K put in. What I am looking for disappointingly does not seem to be available - or at least not easy to find. Myself and a friend went to a family charity event and took photos of families and children for free. Because there are around 500 photos, we said we would make them available online so that the parents could order prints. Because this was a charitable event and we are still learning we did not charge for taking the pictures.
However, the pictures are superb! We decided that after spending most of a day taking pictures, sorting them out, minor edits and uploading, it would only be fair to get a small return on our effort.
We were looking for something similar to photobox, where for example, the site would charge 15p for a 6x4 print, but we would up the price to 25p and keep 10p. For large prints we were thinking of charging 50p extra.
Because these are pictures of families and children, the gallery would have to be accessible to the people who took part, i.e. not public. We can't use photobox because their galleries are public, also I am not sure they even have the facility yet on the new website.
I have seen pro sites which want you to pay upfront fees, but this would completely kill the whole objective of making a (very small) profit.
If anybody has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.0
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