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5 Ways Canvas Prints Make Photographers More Profitable
One of the most difficult jobs for a professional photography is marketing their product. Sure, people are apt to hire photographers to shoot important events, but as a photographer you have a unique opportunity to increase your profitability and customer base by offering more than just the basic traditional photo prints. People want unique and inventive ways to capture and display their precious memories, and photos no canvas fit that criteria.
Free, Quality Advertising
Many professional photographers offer popular businesses in their area discounts, or even free prints, to help promote their work. Business owners love this because it gives them something unique to build the aesthetics of their business and attract clientele. Bustling coffee shops, busy gyms, even banks and malls have a plethora of blank walls, ripe for the displaying something as beautiful and unique as canvas prints. Giving these establishments free canvas prints that bear the name of your photography business, or the photographer, as well as portray an image well suited to your specialty, is a fantastic way to show off your work and drastically increase your exposure.
Filling a Niche Market
Canvas prints are still quite new to most consumers, and offering them to existing and potential customers allows you to fill a niche that other professional photographers in your area have not yet tackled. Additionally, you can add to this by offering unique options, such as caricatures, pop-art effects, and other specialized custom designs that give you a leg up in the field, attracting clients and increasing print sales.
Network, and Be Part of the In-Crowd
Effectively networking yourself and your photography business is often the key to success. By doing so you can create quite the buss for yourself in both the professional and consumer worlds. Many art and photography organizations offer a broad range of membership options and free events that give you opportunities to show off your unique work and get your name out. By effectively networking you not only increase your stature in the industry but also mingle with other business owners, creating quality life-long clients and adding to your sales.
Singling Out Demographics
There are a lot of small demographics out there that can be quite ideal customers for your canvas prints. Some events that you may not have considered yet are dog shows, food festivals, even restaurants. If you target your prints towards these industries you’ll be surprised as to how well they are received. A classy display of a popular dish or food item, or just a unique portrait of someones dog can go along way towards building your client base. Really, anywhere that you can reach a demographic that will be interested in the product you’re offering is a good place to display and promote not only your photography business, but your unique offering of canvas prints.
Incentives and Bonuses
It is often beneficial for photographers to give away a service or product to help with marketing. For example, you can add a special service to your canvas prints that will make you and your product stand out above all others. This could be as simple as a discounted price on a future order, or even a special art effect of a finish such as a frame. These bonuses can be creative, diversifying your print product line, or financial, giving customers more incentive to buy. Of course, it is always up to the photographer to decide which path to take.
Getting a Gallery Wrapped Photo On Canvas is Easy as Pie
When you go to a museum and see those wonderful canvas paintings hanging on the wall, you instantly appreciate the fine art in front of you. Beautiful works of art almost hold something magical, as they pop right out off the wall at you, with a life all their own. You can see every single detail, every stroke, every line – providing a sense of being right there in the painting. It’s easy to see why people say all of the time that a certain painting speaks to them in a wonderful way that they can’t fully explain. These feelings are evoked because of the texture of the canvas and painting itself, as only with a canvas painting can the ink really reach it’s true potential. Over the years, this same feeling has been something that photographs have longed to reach – and now they can, with canvas prints.
Canvas prints have become a beautiful way to take an ordinary photograph and turn it into a museum quality work of art. And, when you create a gallery wrapped picture on canvas, you make it possible for anyone that sees it to feel the same way that they do after seeing a painting in an art gallery. No longer do you have to wonder what it’s like to be a true artist, simply get out that digital camera, point and click your way to awesome canvas prints of your favorite photos.
But many people don’t quite know what gallery wrapping of a canvas print really is. Basically, when your photo is gallery wrapped on a canvas print, it means that the picture is stretched enough so that the photo wraps around the sides of the canvas – giving it an instant 3-D feel.
You can easily create a gallery wrapped canvas print online as well, without spending time driving around to different shops in town. Simply upload your favorite photo to a website and then choose the desired frame and size for your canvas print. The printer will then do the rest of the work, printing the photo on canvas, stretching it onto the frame, and creating a wonderful, unique photograph that looks like a museum quality painting. Suddenly, that single dimensional photo you sent in becomes a pop out, 3-D work of art that makes you feel the same feelings that a hand-painted oil work will. They are beautiful when completed, and can instantly be hung anywhere you desire – plus they will stand up to the test of time.
These beautiful gallery wrapped canvas prints are a wonderful way to share memories, favorite photos, and create a wonderful gift for anyone. Some of the most popular pictures that are sent in to become canvas prints include family members – such as baby pictures, wedding photos, family pictures, family reunions, vacation photos, graduations, and so many other events in our lives that we hold so dear to our hearts. Canvas prints are simply the best way to keep them alive and well in our homes for generations to come.
Ready to get your favorite memory placed on a gallery wrapped canvas print? ZaZa Gallery can help you. We are the leader in producing beautiful, museum quality gallery wrapped canvas prints to help immortalize your favorite photos.
Photography: 10 amazing HDR Images some photo real & Surreal
This Photo was taken in a little town called Inverness in Marin county Ca. We have printed it on canvas several times and It looks great. If you view the image in the larger form there you can read on the front of the boat where it say Point Reyes
Taken in the Tetons national Park this is a crop of a much larger image. The portion you see here makes up the center of the panorama. The larger image was created from twenty five exposures.
We plan on printing the first canvas print of next week in an 18 Inch x 6 foot 4 inch art piece and in the future in a 30 inch x 14 foot.
This is Yosemite on the right is Bridalveil falls. This picture was taken the day the storm set California on fire.
This image was Sonoma Ca. The mustard is in bloom
Glaicer Point
this Vineyard was taken at BR Cohn Winery.
Sonoma
This Is a very rare perspective of Half-Dome
Bodega Bay
Pagoni Winery in Sonoma
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