I also do not believe one can sell lots of 60'' prints in weddings but even if we sell some it's great. I also believe that as good artist as you can be (or consider yourself to be, and that’s a different thing – and a good theme for a podcast!), you still must marketing your services and talk to people. Never underestimate yourself or your public as this worldwide consumer and fashionable market is always changing.

The big prints market it's not a new thing, it comes from the painting big portraits from the past. The richer and important people always had (and still have) their portraits painted mostly from famous painters, but that’s a different story.

Back to the theme, I wouldn't think so much in big prints for weddings but more for portraits, product or companies.
If you look around you can see companies pictures (the building itself), the portrait of the company President, group shot of the employees, politicians, product pictures, restaurants/food, decoration in pubs/bars and so on.

Another business idea: last year I shot a wedding and the couple asked me to do a wallpaper with a collage of pics of their marriage printed in B&W for their room (behind the bed), I find it was a nice idea as they were thinking in a minimalist / ”clean” way of presenting it, to fit their room décor. Now I always speak in the wallpaper when I'm presenting my services, it's a different thing one can do.

Cheers!
Tiago Valente

I also do not believe one can sell lots of 60'' prints in weddings but even if we sell some it's great. I also believe that as good artist as you can be (or consider yourself to be, and that’s a different thing – and a good theme for a podcast!), you still must marketing your services and talk to people. Never underestimate yourself or your public as this worldwide consumer and fashionable market is always changing.

The big prints market it's not a new thing, it comes from the painting big portraits from the past. The richer and important people always had (and still have) their portraits painted mostly from famous painters, but that’s a different story.

Back to the theme, I wouldn't think so much in big prints for weddings but more for portraits, product or companies.
If you look around you can see companies pictures (the building itself), the portrait of the company President, group shot of the employees, politicians, product pictures, restaurants/food, decoration in pubs/bars and so on.

Another business idea: last year I shot a wedding and the couple asked me to do a wallpaper with a collage of pics of their marriage printed in B&W for their room (behind the bed), I find it was a nice idea as they were thinking in a minimalist / ”clean” way of presenting it, to fit their room décor. Now I always speak in the wallpaper when I'm presenting my services, it's a different thing one can do.

Cheers!
Tiago Valente

It most certainly is NOT hard to swallow that photography is an expression of art…for you. I love doing what I do, I love making great images, I love making my clients happy and maybe that makes me an artist of sorts but that is not where I classify myself.

I do not feel this is going to my head, but if I can make more profit off each sale and it makes my clients happy, and provides a value that they are happy to pay for, than have I not done my job properly for that client?

I will probably never even try to sell a 60″ print but I will certainly start testing the waters for 24″ – 32″ prints. In the end, the only thing that matters to me is that I made my client happy. If they loved the images and they loved working with me, and they loved whatever size print I sold to them, then I did my job.

I know it's hard to swallow but photography is another expression of art and if you make money doing something as woderful and enjoying as photography then great, more power to you but don't let it get to your head. I'm also a photographer but it's not how I make a living, it's a passion I have in life and I don't expect anyone to feel the same, just putting in my 2 cents.

Good luck selling your 60″ canvas!

The show was intended to show a viewpoint of increasing sales with one potential method. I do consider myself more businessman than artist and plan to continue to find ways of becoming more profitable and looking at larger prints than I have been really offering in the past does not seem that crazy to me.

I tolarate maybe a 24″ print but big framed portraits on a wall are not that cool anymore. There's a big reason why 8x10s are so popular, todays homes are not really designed for the most part with these types of decors. I much prefer a group (3-4) of 8x10s than a large eye sore of a 60″ frame on a wall. Comon guys get with the program!!! And also thus young guy dreams, eats, poops, breathes $ bills. It's all about the benjamins for him, he was making me sick. Other than that, I really enjoy your podcast……. Most of them at least!

Rick

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