all right so I hope you had an awesome
weekend or depending where you are you
are still having an awesome weekend
let's talk about selling prints this is
something that my interest photographers
in the room or aspiring photographers
who want to sell prints I'm gonna tell
you how I do it how I print them how I
ship them how everything about selling
them by the way if you prefer reading
I'm gonna be leaving a link down below
in the description to my blog I wrote a
blog post a few days ago about this I'm
gonna be sharing pretty much the same
information there is even a little bit
more information over there in the blog
so yeah if you prefer reading just go
over there you can't stop this video
right now anyway let's begin
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I feel like we should start asking
ourselves why do we wanna sell prints of
course one of the reasons or the first
reason that comes to mind is to make
money and that is a pretty obvious and
very good point but I think there is a
deeper and more important more
meaningful way to say here I believe
like many photographers that images have
a destiny or images are meant to be on
paper the process that begins with shot
in the field should end in a print on
paper and not on a phone screen or a
computer screen and even more important
than that is to know that someone really
liked your image so much that they were
actually willing to pay something for it
and to hang it on their wall I think
that's what most photographers are after
right to create meaningful work for
other people this being said they didn't
make my first image until May of 2017
last year it was pretty much a year ago
this was the image it's called st.
John's bridge I made this image in
Poland a very rainy day
lovely day by the way and means those
rainy days because it's too hot right
now but anyway yeah I had been waiting
for a day like that one like a foggy day
where I could go and take a photo of the
bridge without all the background all
the noise in the background I love the
image when I saw it on my computer and I
decided to make it my first printed
print so after doing a little bit of
research I found this little fine art
printing place in Portland I went there
I brought the print I chose the paper
they printed the print and I absolutely
loved it it was love at first sight I
loved everything about it the materials
it was the first time you have to
realize it was my first time seeing one
of my images and a very nice paper
printed with a very high quality printer
and that's a sight that if you take
photos and you have never done anything
like this you should do it it was then
when I realized that I wanted to sell
prints and they actually solved that one
a few copies there was celluloid problem
flaw in a few months time I would be
moving out of Portland if you've been
following this channel you might have
realized about some videos that belong
to a serious call American road trip
that was a road trip that we took in
October November December of last year
it was when we moved
out of Poland and that was an amazing
experience and I want to repeat again
but being on the road meant that I
wasn't going to be able to go to that
fine art printing place in Poland print
the print get it and ship it to someone
finding places to print my prints along
the way doing the road trip wasn't going
to work at all even if I was lucky
enough to find fine art printing places
in the middle of nowhere what I think is
not very likely the results could be
very very different different printers
different ink different papers different
people operating the computers it would
also mean that I would have less time to
actually be out during the road trip
making new images now once the road trip
was over I lived for around four months
in the Midwest since the beginning of
January to the beginning of May and I
knew that my time was limited there as
well I was going to move overseas in
just four months so finding a new place
around there wasn't an option either
because he was going to work for just
three or four months and then I will
have to find another place here what did
I do that well I got a printer I it was
two hundred two hundred and fifty dollar
canon printer it was relatively cheap
but it was supposed to create nice real
black-and-white pictures with real
blacks and three out whites hey I bought
the printer I bought nice paper I bought
a lot of things in total I believe that
the investment was well over 400 bucks
maybe 450 so it's not a huge investment
but it was a considerable amount of
money the idea was if I was able to get
nice results with that printer I could
either bring it with me overseas or buy
another one here because it wasn't that
expensive 200 250 bucks buddy didn't
work at all the results were very
appalling a the images had a very strong
color cast either blue or sepia and when
I did get the real black and the rear
lights and the photos and images the
resolution wasn't there the quality
wasn't good so once again I gave up fast
forward a few weeks I'm in Spain I had
completely forgotten about selling my
own prints I thought that it would be
impossible something that I could never
be able to do to sell high quality
prints from wherever I was because I
didn't have
in place I have a permanent home and I
thought that I needed either a place
where I could just bring my images and
print them or half a nice printer at
home but one day reading something
completely unrelated to this I found out
about drop shipping now this might sound
familiar to some of you most of you
might have already known about this but
I had no idea and drop shipping was
exactly what I needed a company offering
drop shipping could take care of both
the printing and the shipping leaving me
only with the job of going out to the
field creating the image editing the
image and then have it ready to upload
to their website you were really funny
to see how after finding about drop
shipping I was seeing it everywhere this
is like when you're looking for that
thing for hours and hours at home and
you can't just find it and a few days it
just shows up so yeah I found quite a
few companies offering these kind of
service I decided to try a couple of
these companies to actually see what the
the prints looked like before sending
them to customers and I have to say that
the one that I'm using right now it has
really high quality and I love the
prints and the frames so how does this
work for me I have this thing called
image of the month every month I release
a new image and for that month is being
sold at a reduced price after those 30
days I increase the price I've been
doing this for just two months so the
first print has already seen the price
increase the print for a new lie the
print that I have right now for sale the
print for August is this one of Manama
Falls if you like this image if you want
to have it on your wall now it's the
time because it's never gonna be this
cheap again anyway what I do is a month
or a month I have before releasing one
of those images of the month I go to my
local printing place here they don't
have a printer as nice as the other
place the paper is not as nice but it's
kind of close I bring them my image the
image that I have selected for that
month and I print it there you see it's
necessary to see your image on paper
because your phone or your computer can
deceive you so I printed there I check
that everything looks fine that it
prints well on paper that it doesn't
any flaws or any dust or any anything
that is just perfect after that I go to
the website of the company that does the
drop shipping for me I blowed this image
and I order a copy a print for me for
myself the same way that I good for any
customer since I'm in Spain and these
companies in Texas
it takes some two weeks to get here but
it does get here eventually this is why
I ordered a printing advance well ahead
of the release date and once again I
check that everything looks perfect the
the invoice the packaging the print I
don't want to send something that it
doesn't look good or that I don't like
myself to a customer that would be the
last thing I would want to do I'd rather
not sell prints out all that selling
ship to be honest drop shipping
investing only mean that that company is
gonna take care of the printing and the
shipping of your product but they also
package the thing the the way you tell
them to do that means that the invoice
is gonna have your logo and your address
and the the box the the box itself where
the print comes packaged it has your
other two so it looks like you actually
sent that and not that these that you're
seeing is the unboxing of the last of
winter this was the first print that I
sold as part of the image of the month
series it was the image of the month of
July it was also the first time that I
ordered a framed print from them I chose
this frame I wanted a dark frame and I
loved it I loved it it's a very high
quality compared to the ones that I'm
using at the exhibition right now that
they are from very well-known a Swedish
furniture company that I'm not gonna
name these frames really really nice
anyway as you can see it comes very well
packaged they do an awesome job much
better than what I could do this is say
what I like about drop shipping that I I
know that I don't have control a hundred
percent of the process and I will love
to see every image before it leaves the
warehouse because I would love to see
what the customers have gained but I
trust them I trust that they are gonna
get what I got when I order the print
from them if I loved what I get here at
home I know that I can expect the same
quality to be delivered to the customer
and this one that you are seeing here is
the unboxing of the second print day
image of the month of August it's called
a new beginning it's a photo of Moon AMA
Falls and this one it's a as you can see
a moderate print these are the two
finishes that I offer my website for my
images
it's either frame or matted and I wanted
to show you what they look like here in
camera this is the second print I framed
it now so I could take forest to put it
on the website and promote it to because
this is actually the the print that is
on sale right now by the way if you want
it this is the cheapest it's ever gonna
be on September 1st the price of this
print is gonna increase and will never
never be as cheap as it is right now but
yeah the frame is very nice I really
like it and the quality of the print is
very high - let me show you I have here
the first print that I sold this is the
last of winter it's the matted version
here and the reason why I sell these two
finishes only I don't sell the print by
itself is because I want to sell a
product another thing that I do is I
only sell this size is six by six inches
and the mat is two inches on either side
and the reason for that is because this
is the way I see the image when I go out
and create them I want a small print
I'm sorry I even want people like
printing them like super big because
that's not the way I see my images
that's not the way it's in my
photography I don't mind if a snapshot
that I take and I share on Twitter or I
have a knot and a splash again where I
give my photos for free I have some
color photos you can do whatever you
want with those photos but these images
this is my my work I really care about
it and I don't want to see it in a way
that I didn't mean it - I'm gonna try to
show you the paper a much closer maybe
with a different lens but I love it the
way the grain from the film looks and
this texture paper I absolutely love it
and it's something that I am very very
happy with coming back to drop shipping
this was not only a soft remotion but I
really wanted to show you that it's
possible to create really high
quality or in my opinion really
high-quality prints using drop shipping
now like everything drop shipping has
good things and bad things since I've
compromised everything is a compromise
for me by far the best thing about drop
shipping is that I can sell my prints to
anywhere I'm from anywhere in the world
and that has already happened actually a
few days ago I was in the field making
images I got a notification my phone of
my prints had sold and I was able to
actually fulfill that order from my
phone right away and that is awesome
because it frees so much time for you to
do other things like make new images
once you print your image and you see it
with your eyes and you like what you are
saying you have to trust those
professionals at that company the drop
shipping service that they are going to
replicate the image exactly the way you
want it to be every single time and that
allows me to travel without worrying if
I get an order what am I gonna do even
if I had a printer at home and I printed
like you know a stack of images to bring
with me in the car like say five samples
of each image just in case I get the
orders I can bring them with me but I
would have to bring also their shipping
supplies and the paper for the invoices
and the stickers for the box and now you
have to find a post office wherever I go
that would be a big no-no for me this is
the good stuff about drug shipping there
is bad stuff too as I said before I
don't get to see what is being sent to
the customer and I don't really like
that but after seeing the product in
person after getting some very positive
feedback from people who have already
bought the print so it's not only me who
thinks that the prints are high-quality
I really trust this professional so when
it comes to do their job another
downside of drop shipping is a cost if
you do it yourself at home after buying
the printer of course because that can
be a very big investment they can get
really expensive but once you have the
printer every print is really cheap to
produce and to create so if you sell a
lot of print a and you can afford to buy
a printer and you have a homework to put
it that's the best way to do it I could
make more money if I did it myself but I
just can't I guess
to be in the moon I need to keep moving
if I want to create new work and images
this is the way I work and this is the
way I get my inspiration if you are
struggling with how to sell your printed
work photographs drawings - whatever can
be printed give dropshipping a try and
that's all I had to say for today I
really hope that this helps someone out
there and I just wanted to remind you
before letting you go that this is the
image of the month of August it's called
a new beginning I took it
Moon AMA Falls you can watch the video
of how I made this image I'm gonna link
it around here and as I said the current
price is going to be the lowest it's
ever gonna be so if you want to have the
dimensional wall now is the chance go
ahead and get it last thing I wanted to
say is that when I send a huge thank you
to everyone who has already bought a
print from me your support means the
world to me means that I can keep doing
this for a little bit longer I hope I
can do it for the rest of my life but
for now your support it means that I can
keep doing it for for for a little bit
longer thank you so much for watching
once again and see you the next one