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jonrpjonrp Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner
edited March 6, 2006 in Mind Your Own Business
Hi, I'm new on here and looking for your experienced recomendation as to pricing of my images . Also, is watermarking a deterrent to sales, or a help due to less pirating? Sorry, I don't do weddings free, and have worked too long to give everything away. Thanks.

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    DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 6, 2006
    Jon, I've moved your post from where you originally put it. This is a business/smugmug question and you put it in a thread full of requests for moderation within the dgrin forums.

    Hopefully you'll get some answers here in this forum (Mind Your Own Business).
    Erik
    moderator of: The Flea Market [ guidelines ]

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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 6, 2006
    jonrp wrote:
    Hi, I'm new on here and looking for your experienced recomendation as to pricing of my images . Also, is watermarking a deterrent to sales, or a help due to less pirating? Sorry, I don't do weddings free, and have worked too long to give everything away. Thanks.

    Hi Jon,

    A gallery link would be really useful naughty.gif

    You'll find folks equally divided on watermarking I think. Some use it, some don't. I like it for some of the work I do. We have some help pages on watermarking and security:

    http://www.smugmug.com/help/image-protection

    As to pricing photography, I *highly* recommend this book:
    http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1097113

    wave.gif welcome to Dgrin!
    Andy

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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 6, 2006
    Aha - made the connection between your help email and this thread :D

    http://jonrp.smugmug.com/gallery/1240357

    Hey Jon, your Havana stuff is very cool! I enjoyed my visit there to your gallery.
    Andy

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    jonrpjonrp Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner
    edited March 6, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Aha - made the connection between your help email and this thread :D

    http://jonrp.smugmug.com/gallery/1240357

    Hey Jon, your Havana stuff is very cool! I enjoyed my visit there to your gallery.
    ..
    Thanks a lot. I'l get used to this site after bit. We had a great guide, another photog. from Romania and myself. Want to go again someday.
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    bhambham Registered Users Posts: 1,303 Major grins
    edited March 6, 2006
    jonrp wrote:
    Hi, I'm new on here and looking for your experienced recomendation as to pricing of my images . Also, is watermarking a deterrent to sales, or a help due to less pirating? Sorry, I don't do weddings free, and have worked too long to give everything away. Thanks.

    I can't speak for everybody but I don't allow large or originals and I do watermark some images and not others.

    I right click protect everything and I tend not to watermark my wedding stuff but I do watermark events. Not sure if this gives you a good idea. Almost counterintuitively it seems but those wanting a really nice picture that are gonna pay for it are less likely to try to print from a low res on screen image but those that don't want to pay $2 for a print will be happy with a low res screen printed image for free. Hopefully the watermark discourages that, or at least everybody that sees the print knows they are cheap and a thief.


    By the way you may want to at least add .01 on to your print prices to be able to see and track your sales.
    "A photo is like a hamburger. You can get one from McDonalds for $1, one from Chili's for $5, or one from Ruth's Chris for $15. You usually get what you pay for, but don't expect a Ruth's Chris burger at a McDonalds price, if you want that, go cook it yourself." - me
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 6, 2006
    bham wrote:

    By the way you may want to at least add .01 on to your print prices to be able to see and track your sales.

    You read my blog! :D

    http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2005/07/19/tracking-at-cost-sales/
    http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2005/07/19/how-to-block-at-cost-sales/
    Andy

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