Barcodes at Night

[Colin Southern]

Nice shot....I bet you froze your ISO!

Chuck

Thanks Chuck,

*** Note to self ***: PUT WADERS BACK IN CAR!

[Shutterman]

Had to stand knee deep in mid-winter water for about 20 minutes to get these (without my waders!). This particular shot is 2 minutes @ F32 @ ISO 400.

Colin,

That's dedication. And it was worth it, wasn't it??

[Colin Southern]

Colin,

That's dedication. And it was worth it, wasn't it??

It will be when it sells

[Dave Humphries]

It will be when it sells

Have you checked what price comes back when scanned?
Maybe it's incorrectly priced

[Colin Southern]

Have you checked what price comes back when scanned?
Maybe it's incorrectly priced

Actually ...

Funny you should mention that (no pun intended) (well - ok - just a little one!). I recently had a shop selling my canvas prints for $300 and they sold on average one a week for me. That shop closed down, but the manager moved to a new shop as assistant manager.

I was able to put 9 of my canvases in the new shop, but the manager (not assistant manager) wanted to sell them at $450. They sold 1 in about 4 months. My suggestion was to (obviously) lower the price, but he wanted to "keep his margin".

They weren't "core business" for him (just decorating his walls) - for the life of me I still can't understand why he'd prefer 100% of nothing over a lower percentage of a lot more.

I'm still trying to figure that one out. Bit annoying actually, as I put $1000 worth of stock in there - for what amounts to about a $150 return. Just hope I can sell them elsewhere!

PS: If anyone thinks that my work would sell in their country or location, don't hesitate to get in touch - if they'd like to organise the printing and do the selling then I'm more than happy so long as I make something out of it at this end (doesn't have to be a lot). (<-- shameless plug)

[Dave Humphries]

Sounds to me like wall decoration on the cheap IS his main motive, because if he sells one, he has a bare patch for a week or so I guess.

I guess you can only hope he moves on and the other person gets the job.

EDIT:
Unless it's worth doing the sums on paper for him, 4 months is 12 x ($300 - your cut) against 1 x ($450 - your cut), surely the balance must be in volume selling, as you say.

And they say there's no ACCOUNTING for stupidity (groan)

[Colin Southern]

Hi Dave,

My cut is $250, so (on a PA basis) 52 x $50 might have netted $2600PA @ $300ea for them whereas, say 4 sales PA with a margin of $200 only equates to $800. Either way, not a lot of $$$ for them - but - done right, we proved it can be a powerful draw-card to get people into the shop at which point of course, they have the opportunity to sell them other things.

When they first went into the shop they had the prints nicely displayed around the walls - but when I went back several months later there were a few on the walls - one on top of a tall piece of furniture - one showing from inside an office window(!) and apparantly one in the gents toilets(!!).

I was grateful for the effort and opportunity they made in trying to sell them, but that's not how I want my art presented to the public - so we agreed to "pull the pin" on it at that stage.

I'm building up stocks at the moment - think I'll hold my own exibition.

[Rodders]

Very nice shot Colin.

[Colin Southern]

Very nice shot Colin.

Thank you