Some time ago I wrote a little piece, penned the day before Apple introduced the first iPad.
I bought one before they were officially introduced to Thailand, so it cost me more than it should, and so I limited myself to a 16GB version. This was swiftly used up with applications, leaving no room for me to use it for an original justification; showing people my photos so they would go “ooh!” and buy them from me.
Never mind, then came the iPad 2; and a few months ago I took the plunge and bought a 64GB version (she who must be obeyed immediately claimed the original model, so now we are a two iPad household). I loaded up my new toy with photos and prepared to put the tablet in the hands of my clients.
Most of the people who might want to buy my photos are very rich and lead lifestyles that bear no comparison to my own. If someone took photos of me doing something interesting (which is unlikely), I would happily sit for an hour or so, trawling through images to find the ones that I liked; and then go through the necessary process to buy them.
Not so my customers. They are too busy doing whatever jet-set people do and they certainly can’t be bothered to spend time on-line looking for photos that they may like. But when they are relaxing with a beer and you stick an iPad gallery in front of them; then it is easy for them to point and say “I want that one”, and they are not particularly concerned what “that one” may cost.
And so it was that I sold 11,000 bahts worth of photos on the first evening I passed round my iPad 2 to prospective buyers, and this has been the way I have sold most of my photos since. Not only do I prepare galleries from previous events for them to browse, I also upload the current day’s shoot so they can have a quick look for anything they might like. I still sell a few shots on-line, but most of my photo sales now come via the iPad.
Last night Apple introduced the new iPad with double the screen resolution, which will make my photos look even better. Will wait until it is released in Thailand, but it looks like we might become a three iPad family.
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2012-03-08| Spanky saysYou using Portfolio app when you do this? I just read about it and seems pretty cool.
2012-03-08| Spike saysI used Photosmith, which is overkill but does enable multiple tagging of photos. But it takes a while to index a gallery. Just trying the new iPhoto app which looks promising.