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 p.1 #15 · How To Price Your Fine Art Photography | |
Grandmas, your above comment diminishes many of the traits, abilities and requirements that go into fine art photography. I will speak of the genre I know best - wildlife. Part of the problem is that a holistic perspective is not taken when commenting on the 'art'. Much goes into creating art that is not purely artistic. So looking at the "whole", there is vision, patience, commitment to early hours and long days, research on subjects and locations, packing heavy gear, intimate knowledge of how to maximize the use of that gear, tolerance of intense heat, biting cold, swarms of mosquitos, compositional skill, anticipation/timing, understanding of the subject's behaviour and environment, wilderness knowledge (you may be trying to get that fox shot but you better know about bears!), post-processing skills, printing knowledge (whether doing your own or working with a fine art print shop), etc, etc, etc.
And when talking about the "value" of a photo, most people do not consider gear costs, printing costs, shipping costs, travel costs (air, boat, vehicle rentals, gas, hotels, food). Yeah, everybody might have a camera in their back pocket but their not getting the photo of a wolf in Yellowstone with it.
Putting a photographic device in everybody's hands no more makes them a fine art photographer than putting a stethoscope in everybody's hands makes them a doctor.
That photography is misunderstood and under-appreciated, there is no doubt.
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