Does anyone sell photos from thier website?

[rudder]

My daughter is finishing up her last softball tournament for the year. Last weekend we had another tournament and a lot of the parents saw me taking photos and asked to get copies.

I also had a lot of idle time in between games so I thought I could go hang out at another game and take a few pictures (actually saw a coach from another team doing this) to sell.

Since I dropped about $150 for hotels and $50 for food last weekend I thought it may help recoup some costs.

Anyway to the point... my quick solution is to use a paypal cart and set up the website quickly. BUt was wondering if anyone else had any experience with any other carts.

I want to, easily as possible, upload a photo, offer 3 sizes for sale, and be done with it. At this point I do not want to use anything that has a monthly fee. My teacher showed me a website she uses that will send the prints without any interaction from her... but I think it had a $30/month fee. well I am cheap... plus for now this is just a short term deal.

Oh and if you have a link to quickly add watermarks to multiple pics... that would be awesome as well. anyway off to google!

 

[rudder]

Cool smugmug has it all!... but at 149/year. They do have a 14 day trial... so the pressure to get it done for the weekend is off.

 

[randomlinh]

yeah, i was going to say go w/ smugmug. I wish I was good enough to even try.. i'd like to recoup some equipment costs.. haha

 

[episodic]

You can sell from zenfolio for 40$ a year. I love the site

 

[troytime]

i have a photographer web client who's happy with smugmug

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: troytime
i have a photographer web client who's happy with smugmug

Smugmug looks perfect... just don't know if I can do this enough to justify $149/year. I'll see how it goes this weekend.

 

[troytime]

try zenfolio or fotki

 

[episodic]

So what is wrong with zenfolio.com

I just noticed, you can even sell with the 25$ account.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: episodic
So what is wrong with zenfolio.com

I just noticed, you can even sell with the 25$ account.

cause I've never heard of zenfolio Looks very much like smugmug in interface though. They have a free trial too so worth a look I would say.

I just like the smugmug guy. Not too keen on $40/yr, so I'm w/ flickr. I can convince more family members to shell out $25/yr so we can easily share our photos. they are two farily different target markets tho IMO.