Sell & re-sell your photos

by Rohn Engh

Book Overview

Professional photographer Engh teaches independent photographers how to successfully sell and re-sell their photos through the mail and maximize their income with every photo. Updated (second edition,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898790468
• ISBN13: 9780898790467
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I owe it all to Rohn Engh!

I read an earlier edition of this book shortly after graduating from journalism school in 1983. I wanted to make money with my photographs and Rohn Engh's book answered every question I could imagine. I followed his advice and for years was a successful stock photographer. I was also a stay-at-home mom homeschooling three kids, so I only worked a few hours a week, yet still managed to plump the family income. Now I'm a portrait photographer and still do a little stock on the side. I advise anyone who is interested in selling their photos to read this book and save a lot of time in the process.

Business and Pleasure

...I think the lesson that is easily overlooked by critics of Mr. Engh's book is that those that follow it's practice GET TO TAKE PICTURES FOR A LIVING!If you love to take pictures, for God's sake, buy this book and do what you love!! Quit working in Target for the rest of your life in the hopes that someday when you retire you'll get to spend more time on photography. No, you won't be able to quit that Target job tomorrow. Mr. Engy doesn't promise that pipe dream. What he DOES do is point out things which I've found to be dead-on correct through experience.... 1. Slow but steady wins the race. 2. The dilligent hand maketh wealth. 3. You don't get anything you don't work for. 4. Just because you like it, doens't mean anybody else will.Another note to the purist that would say that the practitioner of this book's premises is a "Sell Out". If it's art that you want to make -- so much so that you would work a different job as the main monitery support for said art -- why can't you make your 'Art' photography when you finish your work for the day as a 'Stock' photographer?The question is: Do you want to look back at the end of your life and say "I created a picture that rivaled Adams" or do you want to look back over a life in which you can say "I really had a great time with my family and friends. See, here's my wife in 'Ladies Home Journal'. Here's my brother at my gallary opening in New York in 'The New Yorker' (pictures by me). Here's that thing we did down in Cozumel and I didn't have to pay a dime. What a great time!"If you'd like the latter. Quit messing around:1. Buy the book. 2. Read the book. 3. Read it again. 4. Keep it on a shelf as a reference while you DO what it says. 5. Buy all the books in the bibliography that you can afford and are applicable.

Easy to Read Must Have

As an artist and stay-at-home mom starting a new career in stock photography, this book is inspiring and full of valuable info. I couldn't put this book down! I checked it out of the library and now I am going to buy it because the info and resources are that good!

Excellant Guide to Stock Photography

Author Rohn Engh has written an excellant book that serves as both an introduction to stock photography, and a practical primer for stock photographers wishing to increase their sales. His method of photo analysis (P= B+P+S+I) allows the stock photographer to simply analyze the marketability of a photo before the shutter is released. Mr. Engh definitely re-invigorated our photo game plan with a book that was fun to read and hard to put down. One of the best we have ever read.

Very Informative and Inpsiring

If you are beginning a business in photography as I am, this book is a necessity. From years of experience, the author gives all the information you need to start your photography business and send out your first photo submissions in four weekends. Some of this information includes determining markets specific to you and your interests, explaining how to take marketable pictures, and describing how to submit photographs to the markets specific to you. Also provided are details about photo pricing, copyrights for photos, types of rights given to photo buyers and taxes for a photo business. Being a chemical engineer, details and specific outlined procedures are important to me. That is what "Sell & Re-Sell Your Photos" provides. My dream is to quit engineering and be a full time photographer. "Sell & Re-Sell Your Photos" has put me on the right path to achieve this goal.