what made you decide to start selling?

[mark]

what made you decide to start selling your work?

 

[roteague]

To fund my ability to create more images.

 

[wildbill]

I've never sold a photograph. I've given many away. I've been paid very well to take photos but right now that's it. I need to start though, ebay, freestyle, and jandc are eating holes in my pockets. Does anyone have any recommendations for easy website development software for mac?

 

[claytume]

what made you decide to start selling your work?

well you have to make a living somehow don't you?


Clayton

 

[Jorge]

To fund my ability to create more images.

ditto......

 

[MurrayMinchin]

ditto......

CONGRATULATIONS JORGE ON PASSING 4000 POSTS!

I decide to start selling when I thought my work was good enough. People started buying (somewhat later) when they thought it was good.

Murray

 

[Dave Parker]

Fame, Fortune and the elevated Status of be and so called "Pro"!

Not!

I started taking pictures and gave alot of them away, cause people liked them, and a few people started offering money for images, and I started accepting the offers, cause I was out of work and needed to eat!

Then I got a call, and the art of being broke is history....!!!!

LOL

Dave

 

[removed account4]

had to pay some bills, and couldn't find work doing historic preservation work. i picked up my camera and 15 years later i am still doing it ..

 

[Early Riser]

I started selling work very young, I started shooting on assignment for magazines in my teens so getting paid for my photography seemed natural to me. However I didn't even attempt to sell any of my personal work until I was in my forties, when I was first asked to donate a print for Photo Soho, an auction benefit for the homeless. I was surprised that there were quite a few bidders for my work. With that and the encouragment of my wife I had a solo show in my town, which has a few galleries in it. The show did extremely well and it was the first time that I ever made serious money shooting my own stuff. It encouraged me to present my work to some galleries in Manhattan and on the first day I got representation. A year and a half later I closed my studio in Manhattan and do nothing but my personal work now. One has to make a living and I can think of no better way than to do photography.

 

[MurrayMinchin]

However I didn't even attempt to sell any of my personal work until I was in my forties...

Just visited your website - now I get the "Early Riser" handle

I find your images and the fact you started selling your personal work in your forties inspirational...(guess which decade I'm in)...thanks.

Murray

 

[Early Riser]

Murray thank you for your kind words. It's never too late to pursue one's dreams. In fact when you do it later in life you have a far greater appreciation for it. Again thanks.