Digital BW, The Print

First of all, I think that there is no comparison between photography 
and fine art painting, but just because a painting takes hours to 
complete doesn't mean that it has any real value at all.  There are 
many terrible painting done by bad artists every day which have no 
value.

Photos are different, even traditional prints.  Many traditional 
prints can be duplicated just as successfully as digital images, in 
fact I would avoid almost taking any shot that I knew would require 
hours of darkroom manipulation... since there are infinite images to 
grab, while pick ones that are going to be hard?

Value is set by those paying for the photos, there is no inherent 
value to anything.  If people are happy to pay you might as well be 
happy to sell to them:)

mark

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> There seems to be a lot of people on this site that sell their 
digital
> prints.  How have you rationalized this in your mind?  Do you sell 
a limited
> edition of an individual print?  Once you sell out of a popular 
print are
> you tempted to hit "print" again and make more?  It would be easy 
wouldn't
> it?  :)
> 
> What does everyone think about this?
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