Wonderful thinking, Robert. That's exactly what we're talking about in the
ASMP seminars. What can I do that is different than everybody else out
there with a digital camera? Right now what I'm working on is scanning all
of the old film from all of the remote places that I went and interesting
people I met long before digital. What I'll do with it is still to be
decided, but it's something nobody else has got. Value? According to the
speaker yesterday, it's only worth what somebody will pay me for it. So
far, that's not a lot as stock. Depressing!!
Tina
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes. The current "in" phraseology is "Blue Ocean". Put yourself where no
> one else is; you have all the fish in that area to yourself.
>
> So as I said and Tina reiterated, the big boxes are underpaying employees,
> importing from low cost labor countries and have made the commodities they
> sell as inexpensive as possible (i.e., what has happened to stock
> photography). So where will we find Blue Oceans? Is it in custom printing?
> Environmental portraiture? Workshops? How can we find these niches in the
> places we live that have a market with enough business and reasonable
> margins to sustain ourselves.
>
> Some do weddings (Chris in New Orleans (and now all over the world), does
> photo journalistic type wedding photography blended with some traditional
> images). Kyle does wonderful surreal work for books and music albums,
> Charlie Cramer does amazing landscapes as do others, but offers workshops
> on digital techniques that mimic dye printing with digital processing and
> imaging. Sexton has a following of devotees for BW wet darkroom work. The
> list goes on.
>
> I think this is what the smaller retailers do; how do we find that niche in
> our home towns?
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > When the masses have oversaturated a market, such as stock photography,
> > driving the prices down to the point where no significant income is
> > possible, then we must go where nobody else is. Even if the overall
> dollars
> > are lower, if you have little competition, you get most of it to
> yourself.
> >
> > The key, though, is to make sure you have enough income potential to
> > satisfy.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
> >
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