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You have to advertise. You have to blog, enter and win competitions, use social media like Twitter, be in the news

12 pictures for a photographer isn't going to get much attention unless they're especially amazing. Otherwise you need to take a lot more, and each one needs to be as great an example of its kind as you can make it.



And then there are keywords, so that if someone's searching for a specific type of thing they might search 'river', but more likely a specific river, like the Colorado River. You only have rocks, water, nature, landscape, and no description. You need to tell a story at least about where it was taken, perhaps why you took it.



Here you've berries, nature, focus but not what type of berries. And generally the background should be either cropped or more interesting/colourful. The berries only take up a small part of the picture and thus actually most of the picture is out of focus



Here at least you've included Arkansas, but it still needs a description of where and why,

Why only 12 images?

if you haven't been viewed it means your not advertising at all. you have to advertise or no one will see you but a few bots.


this isn't even for sale. you have a total of 12 images and nothing jumps out. this image is mostly background, has no keywords, has no description of what it is.



this isn't interesting. its soft for the most part, or soft where it doesn't need to be soft. its just a cross with hands holding it. would you buy it?

you have no bio at all, your avatar makes you look a bit sad, don't shoot downward, shoot right at your face. don't make the viewer feel depressed when they see it. sepia vanishes into the background keep it color.


selective color only goes so far. and it doesn't help this shot. while broken buildings can be interesting, this one is not. its hard to tell what i'm looking at an why. the sky is washed out and the rest are trapped in midtones. you have no descriptions and the keyword is all one long word.


this looks like there was an accident. either the doll was killed by that ball, or a kid was. a good picture tells a story easily. and all i see is some stuff on the ground. taking color away only works if the image has interesting lighting. this is flat and dull and too high in the frame. keywords need commas and more of them.



this isn't remotely in focus. its also in shadow, there is a thing on the left. the tags are all one word again. this won't even print.


here's the color version, but its not an interesting building. your making these FOR someone. who is this for? the person that collects broken burned down sheds? that will be hard to find. and the fact you could only scrape up one keyword, it shows you that if you can't muster up a few words, its probably not worth uploading at all.


this one could have been interesting if you included more of the stair case. but its very noisy. there is no description, no tags

overall you have many snap shots. i would call them practice shots. you only have 12 things and i can't imagine too many people that would hang these up. that's the brutal truth. you have to ask - would i buy my own images? frame them and hang them? would i give them as gifts. and if your the slightest bit hesitant, you shouldn't sell it. you need well more than 12 things and they should all be high quality.

you need a bio talking about what you specialize in, once you practice more. you need good descriptions as to what we are looking at. doesn't matter if you think its obvious. more tags, using comma's in between words. once you have a nice gallery of images that have the same level as you see on the sales page, then you have to advertise out. sitting here won't get you anything.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Mark Blauhofer is dead on.
The long and short is you have to spend as much or more time selling than shooting.
Sorry. That's the reality.

interesting

You need to add more images for a good chance of selling one piece of artwork. Good luck.

@Stefanie - i guess you never came back to see the thread?


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

if you want buyers to see you as a professional photographer you need to upload a more professional looking icon than the one you have.