If I could add one more thing, being self-critical of the editing process is important. How one chooses to edit the photo plays a role in how well it could sell. Edit the way you like, but keep in mind it could have an impact.
Yes great point you make here!! That can make all the difference and def worth considering. I saw you grabbed a print too! Thank you so much 😊 I will email you my guide in the morning lovely!
Thanks for the shout, Lucy! Don't sell yourself short. We are just two different styles. The portraits I make are FAR from very sellable in the commercial sense and I find it quite hard myself to find an audience for them. I am definitely leaning more towards "the art collector" which will probably hurt me financially in the short term but will hopefully pay off down the road. But who knows. I am just trying to figure it out like anyone else. Haha
Wow so honoured to have you here in the comments Bryan!!!! Thanks for watching we love your channel and I regularly hear from photogs that they love what you do and how you share your process! You are awesome and unique keep it up! Xx
Love this Lucy! These tips are gold! Especially connecting with buyers, discounts, etc… My biggest struggle is how to organize albums! I am thinking of doing a Digicam album 😊 Thank you!
Wow this video couldn’t have come at a better time! I’ve had a sloppy printshop for sometime, first through manual input/ squarespace, also moved over to Etsy but with POD by Printful… haven’t been feeling that fully either and have been doing mad research all week. Stumbled upon a lot of threads on darkroom yesterday and now I’m super excited to expand and market even more! Thank you for this video, first time viewer turned subscriber. Totally inspiring and helping to reduce my anxiety/ have a better game plan!!! ❤📸
Hey Jerri! Wow thank you this is lovely to hear. So glad the video could offer some and inspire you - that is the best feedback! I hope you have fun re jigging everything and give me a shout if you ever want to share your shop or have any questions! Good luck and thank you for watching. 🙋🏻♀️📸
Not sure a print shop is in the cards form me personally, but these are all really great tips and a nice way to approach setting up a shop for those who are interested. Well done Lucy!
The biggest thing for me is the shyness part. As I’m just starting TH-cam for my photography I’m definitely warming up and getting out of my comfort zone which is helping. Maybes later down the line I can start selling some photos. That would be cool.
Thats great you have started a channel it will build your confidence! Thanks for watching and good luck I’m sure you will start selling soon enough! 🙋🏻♀️📸🎞️
How did you feel about calling cards (business cards) ? Like when you meet someone new, say you are out tahi g photos and someone asks you about your camera (I have an old film camera that I inherited from my mom) and I'm often asked about it . So maybe if I give them a card they will be more in lined to remember where to get theprints online r?
Hi Lucy. Quickly, I do adore you before you put this in file thirteen and would like to pay something so please read to the end. I came upon your site purely by chance and as it is, used a Nikon D800 and about every other make until I gave it all away, at some stage or another. So on a further note asking with tears in my navy blue eyes, even more attention to search terms for purposes of our browsing will get you ten times more support because your stuff is way better than you give yourself credit for and I would like to see your art exposed like you deserve. Not only because you are very lovely but content and effort are superb, furthermore, your use of video is well balanced with beautiful interest and I liked the snippets about your partner and being a mommy too. Stick to sharing and don't lecture down and you will always be real like your photographs with its refreshingly honest voice. I haven't yet looked at all your videos and am already a fan. Also understanding that one wishes to own the site identity, but there are ways of referencing your partner that is also serious about photography and sharing this interest.. However back to the point, during the last Nikon phase I also used an Olympus XZ (1) which to my regret I also gave away to someone then interested in photography but who then dumped it in a drawer never to see the light again (or replace a cellphone). But because I found I always had the XZ on me and nobody ever seemed to get that "camera in your face" feeling of irritation, I took beautiful memories for myself and everyone else and only used my Nikon stuff for more serious events. I also enjoyed the XZ so much that I promptly looked for a small replacement which became the much underrated Lumix gx85, a gem (still favored and used like the XZ as invisible man everywhere) and needless to say being impressed by its value and surprising detail and image quality, I bought all higher Olympus m43 bodies and lenses - enough to shame any shop in Japan, rationalizing my way to hell and back because the pro stuff is still big and obvious (and I have the tiny lenses in any case). But nobody makes better optics anywhere so there is that, despite sensor size etc. and I do take meaningfully and lovely stuff. So I will stay and continue my Olympus obsession because the lenses will be useful even when I translate into other dimensions, wings or horns not withstanding. I will sponsor a photograph which you don't have to send to me because of mailing schlep and uncertainties, maybe email stuff, but which I want to vote on, so send me a "Pay Request" via Paypal to jogey@mweb.co.za J GEYER as I can't figure out how to donate and I am sure many others would like to do the same. The photo I vote for is portrait Resurrection but I couldn't choose between Adore, Polaroid (or in actual fact any of the other ones, but differently). Just not sure If your partner took those I point out or whether any were, I want to believe, self-portraits. My vote is because all your photos and the "preset style" are intriguingly retro and absolutely distinct in style as well as totally beautiful and highly ready for the art wall. I would love to have all of them. The question here to any photographer is always "how many make it to the wall and not just the album" or worse. I certainly found Resurrection and also Adore etcetera similar very sensual as with your appearance in the visual media, my being a healthy evolved being and in fact appealing to all genders I spoke to (unless the person is dead), to get that out of the way but the greater reason is this. There is a life story in your headings and there is an intense sensitivity to something indescribably beautiful, along the lines of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and most certainly not overstated or controversial in any way whatsoever. Same with the photo by the river, one could show them to any age and it will invoke desirable responses. I would certainly encourage the wonderful creative expression you have given this, which most photographers do not seem to have a real artistic feeling for anymore, maybe because we now live in a world where tasteless, ugliness and grossness seem to cloud beautiful and pure. Something was most certainly lost that we need to restore again as human beings. Anyway, would love to see your partner, your baby(s) and most eagerly you in future. Peace.
Like you noted, just putting a link in your stories isn't enough. Well, i sold a set of samples to myself 😅 it's honestly been a bit disheartening, I'll have to select a different set of pictures i guess.
Hello 👋🏻 thank you so much for your kind super thanks contribution! I really appreciate it. I hope the video was helpful and enjoyable for you lovely. Xx
I had a look through your prints and saw one of you cooking at a stove - it made me think that you might suit a “1940’s Pinup” style series of portrait. Unfortunately, that would require an investment in a lot of clothes, shoes, styling for that era… Would look great in B/W and color. (Colour)
Thanks for the advice! I just opened an account and made my gallery there, ordered some prints to check print quality and ordered a print from your shop as well :). I would've thought your shots in the "bangers" collection will sell more, than prints of pictures like Bryan ones. I think colours, textures, shapes and nice composition are more "hangable" on the wall than a stranger's face, and don't get me wrong I think his photography is awesome, but might be better presented/sold as a photo book or something like that? Idk Just my opinion. Thanks for this.
Hey Daniel! Great to hear you opened an account that is awesome. Thank you for grabbing a print - I can’t see your order in the shop though? Let me know your email address so I can send you my creative strategies guide as a thank you! Yeah fair point hey! I always worry my work will seem meaningless and lack that connection and story so maybe I’m projecting my fears there haha 😂 I guess it depends what a person is looking for when purchasing a print. I feel so grateful that people like my work enough to display it - it’s an amazing feeling! Thanks for watching lovely
Yes I have ordered prints for myself before many times and they always look great. The quality is really good and it’s a nice way to see your work printed. They do samples at cost price for you to order if you start a shop!
Hello, I'm a photography lecturer in the UK and the specifications on my course have just changed and there's a big emphasis on the students doing something commercial and this might work in terms of them marketing and selling their work potentially? The only problem I can foresee is that some of them will still be under 18 and this website might require them to be 18 - do you know if that's the case?
Hey Dave. I don’t think there would be any age resections for this website. I can’t see why there would be. You set up payment etc. and add in your details. I think it’s probably a lot safer than most social media really. Good luck I hope it helps some of them! Thanks for watching
@@LucyLumen Ah! Thanks for replying! Yeah I set up an account myself and started to work through the process and I think you're right. There seems to be a suggestion that you need a Paypal account if you're going to actively sell your work, in which case they do have to be 18. But no matter what, I can get them to go through the whole process and have everything ready to go waiting for their 18th birthday if that is an issue. Those that are 18 can start selling! Either way it'll allow them to meet their learning outcomes and address the criteria - which is all good. Thanks for the replying and that's a great video, I'll be showing them all soon encouraging them to subscribe as your content is really good, they may take a lot more notice of you as your so much younger than me and they see me as an old git!
Do you think i could sell them to tourists?? I would ask them to take photo of them (couples, group of friends or old couple) for like 3-5$ (€ at me)?? Do you think it could work?
Do you think i could sell them to tourists?? I would ask them to take photo of them (couples, group of friends or old couple) for like 3-5$ (€ at me)?? Do you think it could work?
And how to guarantee views on a TH-cam vid. Have a thumbnail of a good looking content creator in a wet T-shirt and panties….. I stopped by for the thumbnail but stayed for the content. Thanks for both!
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If I could add one more thing, being self-critical of the editing process is important. How one chooses to edit the photo plays a role in how well it could sell. Edit the way you like, but keep in mind it could have an impact.
Yes great point you make here!! That can make all the difference and def worth considering. I saw you grabbed a print too! Thank you so much 😊 I will email you my guide in the morning lovely!
@@LucyLumen No problem. Happy to join in the fun! I LOVE SHOOTING FILM!
Video Just on time! Sorting out photos for prints right now
Perfect!! I love that. Hope this offers some help! selling prints of your work is the best feeling. Good luck 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻📸
Thanks for the shout, Lucy! Don't sell yourself short. We are just two different styles. The portraits I make are FAR from very sellable in the commercial sense and I find it quite hard myself to find an audience for them. I am definitely leaning more towards "the art collector" which will probably hurt me financially in the short term but will hopefully pay off down the road. But who knows. I am just trying to figure it out like anyone else. Haha
Wow so honoured to have you here in the comments Bryan!!!! Thanks for watching we love your channel and I regularly hear from photogs that they love what you do and how you share your process!
You are awesome and unique keep it up! Xx
@@LucyLumen thank you! Very nice to hear that.
Love this Lucy! These tips are gold! Especially connecting with buyers, discounts, etc… My biggest struggle is how to organize albums! I am thinking of doing a Digicam album 😊 Thank you!
Wow this video couldn’t have come at a better time! I’ve had a sloppy printshop for sometime, first through manual input/ squarespace, also moved over to Etsy but with POD by Printful… haven’t been feeling that fully either and have been doing mad research all week. Stumbled upon a lot of threads on darkroom yesterday and now I’m super excited to expand and market even more! Thank you for this video, first time viewer turned subscriber. Totally inspiring and helping to reduce my anxiety/ have a better game plan!!! ❤📸
Hey Jerri! Wow thank you this is lovely to hear. So glad the video could offer some and inspire you - that is the best feedback!
I hope you have fun re jigging everything and give me a shout if you ever want to share your shop or have any questions! Good luck and thank you for watching. 🙋🏻♀️📸
Not sure a print shop is in the cards form me personally, but these are all really great tips and a nice way to approach setting up a shop for those who are interested. Well done Lucy!
Thank you so much for these tips! Defintley wanting to sell some prints this year, so I'm taking notes🙌
Thank you for watching! Let me know on IG how you go lovely - good luck!
@@LucyLumen thank you so much for this video 🙏🙏🙏
@@LucyLumen absolutely will do. thank you!
Hey, i just ordered 3prints, hope they come soon... 😉 Greetz, Olli... 😉😁😁😁👍
I think my issue is I’m my own worst enemy. I always don’t think I’m good enough to sell my photos. 🙈
X2 here
Solid advice! I’ve been thinking of selling my work also. I shoot 35mm film and Fujifilm digital. I will take a look at Darkroom this week!
The biggest thing for me is the shyness part. As I’m just starting TH-cam for my photography I’m definitely warming up and getting out of my comfort zone which is helping. Maybes later down the line I can start selling some photos. That would be cool.
Thats great you have started a channel it will build your confidence! Thanks for watching and good luck I’m sure you will start selling soon enough! 🙋🏻♀️📸🎞️
I've created a print shop already, and I keep arranging and making changes to it. No sale yet, but let's see
Excellent. Inspirational. Doable.
Thanks for this!
Thank you for watching Alex! Your channel is awesome stoked you watched my video. 🙋🏻♀️😊📸🎞️👍🏻
Great advice. I will look into creating my own darkroom page.
Lots of valuable tips in this video. Thanks a million
Thank you for watching! Appreciate it!
Awesome video Lucy!! Tjanks for putting this out there! Really great info 😄😄
To my surprise, I got quite a lot of great information out of this video. Thank you for putting it out.
That’s great to hear and thanks for giving me a chance! 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻
How did you feel about calling cards (business cards) ? Like when you meet someone new, say you are out tahi g photos and someone asks you about your camera (I have an old film camera that I inherited from my mom) and I'm often asked about it .
So maybe if I give them a card they will be more in lined to remember where to get theprints online r?
Hi Lucy. Quickly, I do adore you before you put this in file thirteen and would like to pay something so please read to the end. I came upon your site purely by chance and as it is, used a Nikon D800 and about every other make until I gave it all away, at some stage or another. So on a further note asking with tears in my navy blue eyes, even more attention to search terms for purposes of our browsing will get you ten times more support because your stuff is way better than you give yourself credit for and I would like to see your art exposed like you deserve. Not only because you are very lovely but content and effort are superb, furthermore, your use of video is well balanced with beautiful interest and I liked the snippets about your partner and being a mommy too. Stick to sharing and don't lecture down and you will always be real like your photographs with its refreshingly honest voice. I haven't yet looked at all your videos and am already a fan. Also understanding that one wishes to own the site identity, but there are ways of referencing your partner that is also serious about photography and sharing this interest..
However back to the point, during the last Nikon phase I also used an Olympus XZ (1) which to my regret I also gave away to someone then interested in photography but who then dumped it in a drawer never to see the light again (or replace a cellphone). But because I found I always had the XZ on me and nobody ever seemed to get that "camera in your face" feeling of irritation, I took beautiful memories for myself and everyone else and only used my Nikon stuff for more serious events. I also enjoyed the XZ so much that I promptly looked for a small replacement which became the much underrated Lumix gx85, a gem (still favored and used like the XZ as invisible man everywhere) and needless to say being impressed by its value and surprising detail and image quality, I bought all higher Olympus m43 bodies and lenses - enough to shame any shop in Japan, rationalizing my way to hell and back because the pro stuff is still big and obvious (and I have the tiny lenses in any case). But nobody makes better optics anywhere so there is that, despite sensor size etc. and I do take meaningfully and lovely stuff. So I will stay and continue my Olympus obsession because the lenses will be useful even when I translate into other dimensions, wings or horns not withstanding.
I will sponsor a photograph which you don't have to send to me because of mailing schlep and uncertainties, maybe email stuff, but which I want to vote on, so send me a "Pay Request" via Paypal to jogey@mweb.co.za J GEYER as I can't figure out how to donate and I am sure many others would like to do the same. The photo I vote for is portrait Resurrection but I couldn't choose between Adore, Polaroid (or in actual fact any of the other ones, but differently). Just not sure If your partner took those I point out or whether any were, I want to believe, self-portraits. My vote is because all your photos and the "preset style" are intriguingly retro and absolutely distinct in style as well as totally beautiful and highly ready for the art wall. I would love to have all of them. The question here to any photographer is always "how many make it to the wall and not just the album" or worse.
I certainly found Resurrection and also Adore etcetera similar very sensual as with your appearance in the visual media, my being a healthy evolved being and in fact appealing to all genders I spoke to (unless the person is dead), to get that out of the way but the greater reason is this. There is a life story in your headings and there is an intense sensitivity to something indescribably beautiful, along the lines of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and most certainly not overstated or controversial in any way whatsoever. Same with the photo by the river, one could show them to any age and it will invoke desirable responses. I would certainly encourage the wonderful creative expression you have given this, which most photographers do not seem to have a real artistic feeling for anymore, maybe because we now live in a world where tasteless, ugliness and grossness seem to cloud beautiful and pure. Something was most certainly lost that we need to restore again as human beings. Anyway, would love to see your partner, your baby(s) and most eagerly you in future. Peace.
Hi I just made an darkroom account, thanks for the tips and like the way you explain things carry on the good work
That is so awesome! I’m glad this was helpful good luck with your darkroom site and thanks for watching!
Like you noted, just putting a link in your stories isn't enough. Well, i sold a set of samples to myself 😅 it's honestly been a bit disheartening, I'll have to select a different set of pictures i guess.
I’m a month in and definitely feeling the same way as you Phil 😅
@@macgyver205 it's a struggle! Gotta keep the grind up...
Also thanks for the video ❤
Fantastic and useful tips Lucy. I’m about a month in and haven’t sold anything just yet. Hopefully one day soon! 🙏🏻
Always enjoy your videos.
Do you record your talking heads videos with a Fujifilm?
Thanks lovely! Yes we do a fujifilm XT4 but my partner does all that side of stuff and the editing as well.
@@LucyLumen right on, I use an X-T3 as my "Family Dad Cam" LoL. I thought I recognized those colors.
Keep up the good work 😎👍
Great video! Tip #1 resonates for me, I've always been to nervous to try to sell prints. I took some notes, maybe I start selling prints in 2023!?!
Thanks
Hello 👋🏻 thank you so much for your kind super thanks contribution! I really appreciate it. I hope the video was helpful and enjoyable for you lovely. Xx
I had a look through your prints and saw one of you cooking at a stove - it made me think that you might suit a “1940’s Pinup” style series of portrait. Unfortunately, that would require an investment in a lot of clothes, shoes, styling for that era… Would look great in B/W and color. (Colour)
A very cool surname for a photographer :-)
Thanks for the advice! I just opened an account and made my gallery there, ordered some prints to check print quality and ordered a print from your shop as well :). I would've thought your shots in the "bangers" collection will sell more, than prints of pictures like Bryan ones. I think colours, textures, shapes and nice composition are more "hangable" on the wall than a stranger's face, and don't get me wrong I think his photography is awesome, but might be better presented/sold as a photo book or something like that? Idk Just my opinion. Thanks for this.
Hey Daniel! Great to hear you opened an account that is awesome.
Thank you for grabbing a print - I can’t see your order in the shop though? Let me know your email address so I can send you my creative strategies guide as a thank you!
Yeah fair point hey! I always worry my work will seem meaningless and lack that connection and story so maybe I’m projecting my fears there haha 😂
I guess it depends what a person is looking for when purchasing a print. I feel so grateful that people like my work enough to display it - it’s an amazing feeling! Thanks for watching lovely
@@LucyLumen thanks for the guide! I’ve been practicing some tips already. And thanks again for the info and advices on your videos. 🙏🏽
awesome info, thanks for sharing.
Do you order a print at first for yourself …. To make sure it prints nice?
Yes I have ordered prints for myself before many times and they always look great. The quality is really good and it’s a nice way to see your work printed. They do samples at cost price for you to order if you start a shop!
Thanks a ton!!@@LucyLumen
Hello, I'm a photography lecturer in the UK and the specifications on my course have just changed and there's a big emphasis on the students doing something commercial and this might work in terms of them marketing and selling their work potentially? The only problem I can foresee is that some of them will still be under 18 and this website might require them to be 18 - do you know if that's the case?
Hey Dave. I don’t think there would be any age resections for this website. I can’t see why there would be. You set up payment etc. and add in your details. I think it’s probably a lot safer than most social media really. Good luck I hope it helps some of them! Thanks for watching
@@LucyLumen Ah! Thanks for replying! Yeah I set up an account myself and started to work through the process and I think you're right. There seems to be a suggestion that you need a Paypal account if you're going to actively sell your work, in which case they do have to be 18. But no matter what, I can get them to go through the whole process and have everything ready to go waiting for their 18th birthday if that is an issue. Those that are 18 can start selling! Either way it'll allow them to meet their learning outcomes and address the criteria - which is all good. Thanks for the replying and that's a great video, I'll be showing them all soon encouraging them to subscribe as your content is really good, they may take a lot more notice of you as your so much younger than me and they see me as an old git!
Do you think i could sell them to tourists?? I would ask them to take photo of them (couples, group of friends or old couple) for like 3-5$ (€ at me)??
Do you think it could work?
THANK YOU FOR THIS YOURE THE BEST
Excellent video, thank you
Thank you 🙏🏻 I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Did you find you had people requesting prints of your work before you set up the shop on Darkroom?
Do you think i could sell them to tourists?? I would ask them to take photo of them (couples, group of friends or old couple) for like 3-5$ (€ at me)??
Do you think it could work?
Bryan Birks and who? couldn't understand, language barrier sry 😭
Haha sorry! Sissi lu look her up on IG she makes awesome work!
@@LucyLumen thank you!
on Darkroom do you have pay to get photos to appear mocked up with frames in collections?
And how to guarantee views on a TH-cam vid. Have a thumbnail of a good looking content creator in a wet T-shirt and panties…..
I stopped by for the thumbnail but stayed for the content. Thanks for both!