[STOCKPHOTO] Re: fine art prints / ink jet

[John Fowler]

>
>I was going to suggest that Paul not call his prints "ink-jets" and use the
>more upscale, cachet-laden term giclee (with the accent over the proper
>'e'). Why do you advise against using this term? (Unless you meant don't
>call them "Guy-clay" but instead the pompous-sounding "Zy-clay". Just
>curious...

If you want to sound correct (and Un-American, altho' I can't image why you
would), don't pronounce it "Zy-clay", especially with the American sounding
"Z" (and the Canadian/Brit "Z" is even worse!!!).

Learn the soft, slightly drawn out "j" sound the French often (not always),
use for "g". I can't think of a similar sound in either US or mid-Atlantic
English. Maurice Chevalier (what a lovely voice!) gets close to it in the
song Gi-Gi which you may be able to locate in the vinyl music collection of
someone as old as I :-)

John T. Fowler
Photography For Education
http://www.magma.ca/~jfowler

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[bhhc]

John;

I am fluent in French (lived in Quebec for most the 47 years I have been in
North America) . . . I know how to pronounce it, I just don't know how to
pronounce it without snickering and eventually bursting into laughter . . .
maybe I should take a sedative before each sale?

Paul Aparycki

[HPA]

Hello, I have a website, ebay store, and run auctions of my photographs. I
would say the daily average of sales is about $70-$125 and I work 7 days.
Most of my photos sell for $19.99, so this is 4-6 prints a day. My products
are 8x10 chemical darkroom prints that I make in batches of 25, and 13x19
digital prints made on a 2200. In order to attract traffic to my store and
web site, I auction some photos every week for half price starting bid. I
get some big sales one or two times a month, for example over the last two
months I have done a 3 story bank, a sports bar, and two restaurants, I got
$500-$2000 for each of these. People usually buy only one print, but every
week or so someone will buy two or three together.

I have experimented with other prices, and in my experience this price has
the best combination of volume and profit. I need to see at least $3000 a
month in basic internet sales. Most people who are selling digital prints
for over $25 sell only a few here and there, you can look at their ebay
feedback and you can see they are getting maybe $500 a month tops. I know
one photographer who does sell chemical b&w on ebay for $75 and he has sold
over 50 prints last summer, his name is George Provost in Alaska, he shoots
8x10 camera and makes contact prints on Azo paper, very nice. the
difference is that he is the photographer and signs his prints, i do not.

I call my 2200 prints "archival Ultrachrome". about half my orders from
ebay are for chemical, half digital. For example, my portrait of Ansel
Adams sells one copy every few days, and so far every order for it is a
chemical print. I plan to continue offering both chemical and digital
prints. I am seeing an exponential growth of purchases over the internet
this year, and expect the trend to continue. I might add that stock sales
off my site are laughable, as soon as anyone finds out they have to pay to
use my photos the deal disappears.

I am not a photographer. I buy dead photo studios and photographer estates
to get my film. Two weeks ago, a garage saler in Arizona found my website
and offered to sell a photographer's estate from Arizona, which I bought.
Two great shots of Marilyn Monroe at a Arizona Rodeo, 4x5 original film. I
specialize in historic subjects.

Here are my URLs. I designed the site myself. If anyone has any comments
or suggestions, I would love to hear them.

Website:
http://www.historicphotoarchive.com/

Ebay store:
http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=18292828&ssPageName=L2

good luck
Tom Robinson