Posts that are specific to QTImages
The celebrate the launch of the new QTImages Photo Art Gallery website I’m offering readers of my theLightMatters Blog a discount of 10% against any purchase.
To take advantage of this offer simply visit the new QTImages website and browse through the gallery there. If you see something you like, add it to your cart and enter the vouche code TLMAUG10 at the checkout Continue reading Special Offer: 10% Discount at QTImages »
Been beavering away at QTHQ over the last couple of weeks designing and building a new, improved site to replace my existing image sales site, QTImages.
It’s probably the most complex site I’ve designed to-date featuring a full e-commerce solution, 125 products spanning nearly 10 years of digital photography and 15 variations on each image giving a massive 1,875 products. With SEO and social networking built in from the outset its a huge improvement over the existing site.
After 2 weeks in development the new site is almost ready for launch – just a few little tweaks and testing still remain.
Technical details about the site available here: http://qtsoftware.co.uk/blog/qtimages-new-website-sneak-preview/
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’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 😉
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 :-)
I believe any photographer can do what I did, earn money from their photos, maybe even start their own business.
Join my VIP members today (it's free) and make your first step into professional or semi-professional photography.
PS, You can also find me on Google+
