The home for all my websites
Finally managed to get my main site, http://gavinthorn.com, representing Gavin Thorn Photography designed, on-line and live. Phew. It’s taken a while owing to a lack of time from all the shoots I was doing towards the end of last year more of that in a future post) and the fact I wanted a clean, simple and uncluttered design but couldn’t settle on one.
I now have an account with Zazzle and am planning to use this as an alternative outlet for my images. The beauty is that Zazzle cover all manner of products from clothing through to canvas prints. My store on Zazzle can be found here: http://www.zazzle.com/qtdesigns and here: http://www.qzazzle.co.uk/qtdesigns for the USA and UK respectively. This re-opens a whole new product line opportunity for me to supplement the existing designs I have with SpreadShirt.
The initial products I have are posters and canvases but I will be adding clothing designs in the not too distant future.
I’ve spent a lot of time recently reworking the products on my QTImages site.
The main reason for this was to add framed prints as a product line and to simplify the unframed prints offerings. In the end I elected to completely remove unframed prints from the site. Clients now have three simple choices to make:
Simple. Well, to me anyway. I just hope the client sees it that way too.
A secondary reason for doing this work to to review the images and to put my prices up. Selling unframed prints was hurting my strategy: an unframed print is just that, an unframed print. My goal is to sell my images as art and for my clients to recognise them as such. I don’t want to sell an image because it is cheap. I want to sell an image because it is deemed worthy to hang on the client’s wall in their home or office.
Writing content for this blog has definitely helped me to consolidate my thoughts. I recently described the entire range of photographic activities that I’m working on, and it is bigger than just the portrait and wedding work that I undertake. Over the years I’ve taken many thousands of photographs, a few of the more recent digital ones are now available through my print and fine art site: QTImages.
QTImages predates my other work by several years. It was one of the first serious websites that I built with a view to marketing my images and is now in its second generation. I use it as an outlet to market a selection of images that clients may buy as wall art. Every product is printed/manufactured to order by a lab that specialises in supplying professional photographers. I’ve compared prints from them to those I’ve had made by other, cheaper labs typically favoured by most people and the results speak for themselves. Obviously there is a cost associated with this which eats into my margins but nevertheless, I’d rather bring the client something they cannot get on the High Street.
QTImages offers the client stretched canvases, framed and unframed prints, and heavyweight giclée prints. I’ll be updating the range from time to time to introduce new products and images to the site.
If you’re in the market or know someone who is, wander over to http://qtimages.co.uk and have a look 😉
I’ve wanted to consolidate my sites for some time now, particularly as I’m running my photographic endeavours as a business. When I bought this domain, thelightmatters.com, last year my intention then was to use that as my business name. I may well do this in the future but for the moment, leaving it just as my blog fits better with my longer term strategy and branding. Continue reading Gavin Thorn Photography… »
Hi, I'm Gavin the photographer.
I used to work in IT until a few years ago. I was under a lot of stress at work and getting really p*****d off. Then one day I chose to give it all up and follow a dream. Everyone I knew thought I was nuts, that just made me try harder :-)
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