Question For Faa Staff- What Size Photographs Sell Best?

i keep the prices low for the small and work my way up because it could scare people off. not to mention confuse them greatly as to why the small one is more expensive then the next size up. that said, i don't sell many small prints, most of mine are 24-36" or larger. what sells best depends on the person making the art, the art itself and who is buying it. some people don't even sell that size and start at 12". some buy a small print and a large frame. the prices should be linear, low to high. the card prices should be high, closer to being a small print as it's bought that way.

---Mike Savad

I doubt there will be an official answer by my average size is probably in the 24x36 range. People have also purchased the smallest size, as large as 40x60, as well as cards.

It probably depends somewhat on the subject. Watch the recent sales for a few days and see what shows up.

Suspect there are too many factors in this one to give a solid useful answer.

"It depends" is probably the real answer. Depends on the customer's needs, the subject, the price the artist set.

My print sales today are typically on either end of the spectrum, customers buying the largest size I offer and some the smallest. Some pick in the middle sizes, probably based on a space they have to fill, but I can tell most are just going for either end of the offered sizes. Years ago when my prices were much cheaper, they nearly always went for the largest...

Anything you would likely get from FAA would at best be an average that would only tell you what sells at a given size across a multitude of art styles, prices, etc. It wouldn't tell you what size will sell best in your style/subject. Or what effect marking up that size would have on your individual sales.

It's one of those statistics that could be sliced and diced so many ways. What size sells best in X style/subject? What size sells best when the artist mark-up is over x value or x percent of the base cost? What size sells best when the economy is up? What size sells best when it's down? Etc.

Depends if the image is "over the sofa" ready or if its more of a card type image.

I have one sale to my name so far, so my average print size sold is 7.5"x10" ;-)

Patrick, one thing to keep in mind...Don't sell ANY size that can be placed on a typical store purchased scanner and copied in full.

technically you can scan a18x24 print on a home scanner if your patient enough. i wouldn't worry too much about people scanning things in. you won't sell anything if your going to worry about it that far.

---Mike Savad