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Flat Owl Photo

9 Years Ago

Pointers, Tips, And Feedback Wanted :)

Hey everybody! Glad to be a part of this website. :) I'm relatively new at all of this and was wondering if any of you had any pointers, tips, or feedback for two main areas: 1) best way to promote art on this website (from your experience), 2) feedback on my art--is it best suited to this site? any others that have proved successful in promoting and selling art? AND last of all, any improvements I can make in the future to be better? (specifics would be helpful on individual pieces). Any feedback would be welcome and appreciated!

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Murray Bloom

9 Years Ago

Welcome. Since your emphasis is on landscape photography, you should understand that it's maybe the most popular genre and you will have a LOT of competition. Rather than concentrate on promoting your work on this site (which is generally ineffective), the best strategy is to promote it on social media and in the real world. Think of FAA only as your printer. The site does not market individual artists or images.

You should also know that the FAA image search is strongly biased toward successful sellers and images which have already sold here.

 

Flat Owl Photo

9 Years Ago

Thanks Murray! That makes a lot of sense. I went ahead and made a facebook page and uploaded some of my other stuff a few weeks ago. That does seem like a better idea to promoting art than here. Posting one or two images a day to different groups seems like a lot of work (which I am ok with and willing to do, but I'm open to more efficient ways of promoting art). Thus far I have just over 100 views in 16 days. So that said...I guess getting people to "like" my Facebook page may be one better option.

Thanks again!

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

it's easier to do a search for marketing tips - because i know there are many threads about it already. you'll want to watch your aberrations, i'm pretty sure it will print despite that, but i'm not a 100% certain of it. any art can sell, and i can see a few sellers in there. but the fringing takes it down a notch. the edges are a bit oversharp as well, they stair step in places.

you'll want to add more keywords, and a bio that doesn't sound like your fresh out of school. increase the price of the card, people buy them as small prints.

marketing - you'll have to find the people that would be interested in your art. that's the hard part.

---Mike Savad

 

Flat Owl Photo

9 Years Ago

Thanks Mike! Much appreciated! That makes sense on the bio. What is an acceptable price range for those small prints? On the aberrations I've been experimenting a lot with HDR...but I do realize not everybody is into that style. I take it that many of the artists here have premium accounts...currently I'm limited to 25 with the basic account. On many of my other photos I've basically just color corrected to give it some life. (facebook.com/flatowlphoto). I'll have to look up some of those threads on marketing. Thanks again!

Preston

 

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