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I sold my first photograph recently. I got $80 out of it, which is pretty good, considering the output to make it was around ~$5. That gave me an idea: I'm going to sell photographs in my free time. I'm gonna make some mad bank.

I secured a domain from a friend a few days ago, and set up a very web 1.0-like page (looks best on Netscape). I tried something different: there's no flat price for anything. You pay what you want to pay, and we negotiate a price (I'm not going to produce at a loss; no one in their right mind would).

Basically, you submit an order form saying which art you want, what kind of frame you want (on a scale from 1 to 10), and a means of contact. I'll contact you as soon as I get your order form, and we work out a price. Depending on what you want, I can go as low as $30 (small prints and plain frames can go this low).

Everything's here.

I'd really appreciate it if you guys could help me out. Word-of-mouth is a pretty good form of advertisement, so if it isn't too much, if you guys could suggest me to people who are looking for artwork, I'd really appreciate it.
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Posting in a BMP thread.

You should take photos of downtown areas, tall buildings, if you live anywhere near something like that. Busy streets... Corporate fags like that stuff.
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Lol-amateur-photographer-thinks-he's-unique.jpg
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(03-24-2012 11:50 AM)Sapphire Flames Wrote:  Lol-amateur-photographer-thinks-he's-unique.jpg

But for $80 a photo? Hell, I'd do it.
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RE: Advertising myself

With the help of the friend who sold me the domain, I got a subdomain for my work and made it more web 2.0-friendly.

Click here.

Also, not every photo is going to be $80. Because I'm practicing price discrimination, I could go as low as half of that, depending on what you want. That's pretty good considering most professional photographers charge several hundred dollars per photo.
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Oh yes, I can see that your photography is absolutely wonderful by that bright blue gradient on your home page.
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(03-25-2012 03:35 PM)Fish20 Wrote:  Oh yes, I can see that your photography is absolutely wonderful by that bright blue gradient on your home page.

I'd like to see you do better.
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(03-25-2012 03:49 PM)BobManPerson Wrote:  
(03-25-2012 03:35 PM)Fish20 Wrote:  Oh yes, I can see that your photography is absolutely wonderful by that bright blue gradient on your home page.

I'd like to see you do better.

Oh looks like you changed it

before it was just a gradient.
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