If you did it right, you could make alot of money during the Airshow season, by even setting up a stall at a local town near X airshow or if you could happen to get permission to sell at an event or even hand out fliers, to people with a weblink and you just print and frame what they order.

I don’t think it would be that easy, taking at the airshow and selling on site, as the majority of attendees will have their own equipment and will be taking their own. The work flow could also be quite high considering the number of images taken at an airshow and how quickly they could be sorted to filter out the crap.

Not quite relevant here, but what does sell and sells very well are images of peoples animals and if given permission to take them, children. We recently took our event unit to a dog agility festival and cleared enough in two days to buy a generator for the unit and part way towards a WFT transmitter unit for the cameras.

I have thought that using a prop such as a cockpit section with a suitable back drop may be an angle to try at airshows. However, for us, that will sometime down the road before we can even contemplate trying it.

Out of interest this is our unit on site at the local steam museum on May 9th.

Sorry I thought we were talking about the principles of photography not the exact period of history, I stand corrected.

Again my point is the principles are the same, you press a button, a shutter opens, light is let in by the aperture onto a medium, whether that is film a digital sensor or straight onto silver or chloride emulsions, the science is the same. Yes all act in a different way to each other and produce different results, but DoF, exposure, focus are all still as important to each other.

I’ll give you an example of why I think JP is at times just a happy snappy dumping ground and ask you what quality this photo has ? I know the photographer and see him on a regular basis, I also know that he vehemently refuses to change his settings sticking to the tried and tested sports mode on his 350D. The last time I saw him to speak too for any length he was taking anything and everything to get his 1,000th photo on JP.

I don’t class myself or my wife as professional photographers, we both have day jobs, but set up our photography business in order to pay for the hobby. It may come to a point whereby we are doing it as our main source of income but that is a long way off as the current income wouldn’t come even close to paying a third of our mortgage.

I also don’t profess to know everything there is, I’m learning something every time I pick up my camera and there are far more proficient aviation photographers around than I will ever be, the talents of which I can only aspire too. Also as I live on an island it limits my access to interesting aviation subjects, so I have to make do with other topics.

Out of interest by the end of May we will have covered 2 weddings, 1 christening, 1 funeral, a Tai Kwon Do grading event, a dog agility festival, two Catholic first communions and a Liberation Day celebration event at our local steam museum. On the back of these events and the images we have sold, we have three full weekends booked in June including two more weddings, a local motoring festival, a celebrity cricket function, and the local air rally. July is similarly booked up as is August, during which we will be flown down to Florence to cover a wedding for a local lawyer. So we must be doing something right and our past clients have been pleased with what we have accomplished.

There are aspects that in time I would like to master such as portraiture and the use of studio lights. Hopefully in time and with the funds available it will be something we will get to tackle more proficiently than we are at present.

Duxford, I would say in some respects you are right, exposure, focus, DoF etc are all the same no matter if its film or digital, Box Brownie or EOS 1DS Mk3.

The real upside with digital is the instance play back and the ability to retake straight away if things aren’t quite what you wanted or expected.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of people who post here haven’t improved their photography in some way by using digital.

Robbo we maybe be backward but not everyone here is a fool and if the turnover from the past month is anything to go by, we maybe giving up the day jobs much sooner that we anticipated, all I can say is both the dead and dog owners pay dividends 😉

I’d like to see their sales figures!

Anyone with the slightest bit of sense wouldn’t touch photos like that with a barge pole.

If you’re looking to sell images, keep the price modest to begin with. Are you looking to sell at exhibitions mainly or also online?

Including fancy frames bumps up the cost and is far more expensive to send out to customers. I find selling digital negatives much more cost affective, and is something worth considering.

Thanks for the advice GE. Having set up own photography business 16 months, covering everything from weddings to dog agility shows we are well aware of what sells and what doesn’t.

If the images we saw on show sell for anywhere near the asking price then there is something very wrong.

P.S. We are not trying to sell the images we posted, we wouldn’t consider it. We used them as a representation of what we saw in a local gallery.