Photography=Fun, Selling Photos !=Fun

So my photos are going up in a store in Royal Oak in about a week or so, and you know what I'm realizing I don't like selling the stuff.  It's a pain in the ass with printing and framing and trying to make some money. So the store is on Washington Ave. by Lilli's seafood, and if they finish the upstairs, or if they open the upstairs they're thinking of having me exhibit my photos, but for now there's going to be 5-6 of my framed 8x10s available for sale, all for the low low price of $80.  If you read this blog and like some of my photos email me for pricing. Now back to why it sucks, so there's like 8 different printing options that I can choose from I love the metallic printing I've tried but the store owner doesn't, no biggie right oh well. Framing is a pain in the ass and sucks trying to suit peoples needs, also custom framers are kind of dicks when it comes to pricing, but that's maybe for a different post.  I'm backed up with photos that I still need to go through and not quite sure when, and unlike last year at this time I'm realizing how important sleep can  be.  Alright enough about updating about me, back to work on photos.

Come together right now

About time things finally started to come together.  So this whole photo thing is finally taking off, finally.  Selling photos, working on an exhibit, and there's a store/gallery that wants to put my stuff up and sell them.  Good for me, now comes my biggest headache: pricing.  There are 3 different pricing schemes: friends, strangers, and galleries. The cheapest is for friends, I barely make anything from this, for strangers I make a decent profit, for galleries you get ripped off, but they take a decent cut out of every sale so photos need to cost more.  I'm almost at 32,000 views on Flickr and I'm getting more and more complements for my photos, now who's got an upcoming event that isn't really important and wants photos taken?  I need more work with objects that run away or move.  But I'm feeling good about this. Now to keep trying to figure out pricing.  Well enough of that time to go watch mindless explosions and go see Iron Man 2.

Everyone come and drink with me!

I'm writing this on the Wi-fi I intalled at the bar (Go me!). It's been a while since I've posted and I've had a few shots and beers but WTF! I'm saying that to the what the hell is going on? I've ran into 4 previous (can't say exes) in a 4 day span.  Is there some sort of I hate Konrad support group that I'm not aware of, and if there is can you give me a warning so I can avoid all of you.  Seriously there was one where I was out taking photos for a paper and was like shit, but I'm still friends with your best friend and we talk.  Well I handled that as well as anyone could I asked and I quote "would you like your photo taken?" your friend laughed you looked like you wanted to kill me.  I remember this stare from the last time we talked, and damn you you've somehow improved it.  Oh well please come visit me at Donovan's Pub.