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Show us your portfolio
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I'm curious to see what a professional photographer portfolio looks like.
What are the do's and don't in creating a portfolio?
Do you include "irrelevant" pictures (i.e natur photo if you are showing a portfolio for a model shoot)
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This is some breathtaking work. Looks like tons of natural light only? So well done. Bravo sir!
Advice on producing a professional portfolio
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As the title states, I don’t know what’s the best route or what’s the industry standard as far as portfolios. Is it a website, or a collection on an image platform? If you have any useful info it would be greatly appreciated.
I’m an amateur just trying to branch out so this is all new to me
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There's no industry standard, and what is common in one niche is not in others. The only universal necessity is that you have strong work that is well presented for the person doing the hiring. You also need to put it together very intentionally, it should show your strengths and your interests. A bunch of random pictures (not matter how nice) is not a portfolio.
I'd start with a website - look at professionals who do work you think you might want to do and learn from their presentation. While some people get hired from their IG, it's usually by marketing agencies wanting to exploit their follower counts, it's less to do with their photographic skills. These photographers are more visible in social media but they are not the primary engine running the photo industry - many, if not most pros getting good jobs have the right work for the client and are nearly invisible in the social media sphere. They're the ones hired for the skill/vision not their follower count. Those two things are not mutually exclusive necessarily, but they are often unrelated.
Print portfolios are still best for person to person meetings IMO - nothing gets the conversation flowing about the work like the prints - but iPad/tablet portfolios are relatively common in this situation too. You also can't fake a print portfolio like you can a bunch of low res IG pics.
How to make a photography portfolio
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A few weeks ago I got an overwhelmingly positive response from you all when I asked whether you'd like me to write a guide about "How to make a good photography portfolio": https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/5zpnbk/how_to_build_a_good_photography_portfolio/
Well - I'm finally done writing the guide, you can read it here: https://colormelon.com/diy-photography-portfolio-website-guide/
It's a completely non-technical guide, doesn't matter which platform you use or what your design looks like. I focused on the core principles of a solid portfolio website. Once you know the basics, it doesn't really matter which platform you decide to use.
After reading that article - if you still want even more in-depth content, PM me and let me know what exactly you're looking for. I might add that to my to-write list.
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thanks for putting this together
Optimizing photos for online portfolio
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Hi all,
I'm in the process of building an online portfolio and am having a lot of trouble optimizing the photos I upload. The images I'm uploading to my portfolio (I'm using Adobe Portfolio) aren't as sharp as the images on photoshop and even image preview on my Macbook Pro (I have a retina screen).
Here is an example:
This is what I want my image to look like
This is what it looks like on my portfolio
As you can see my subject isn't as sharp.
Here is my process for uploading my images for web:
- I resize in photoshop from 24x16in dpi 240 to 12x8in dpi 240, and tick off bicubic sharper.
- I then save for web, check off sRGB, and then bring the quality of my JPG down to 90% quality.
What am I doing wrong? Are there any other best practices I should consider? Is it impossible to get the same image quality on photoshop/lightroom and on a web browser?
Thank you for reading!
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I would bet your photos are being "optimized" (AKA compressed) by Adobe Portfolio because your uploads are large, both in file size and dimension.
- Determine the Adobe Portfolio display parameters and upload to exactly that size on long edge pixels (you are currently uploading 2880 pix) otherwise they will be compressed. EDIT: Your portfolio is 1200/2400 pixels wide, so you need to upload exactly 2400px long edge photos.
- Read this analysis of jepg export quality to optimize file size with sufficient image quality. Hint: around 80% is best for web. Above that % the file sizes grow almost exponentially and if you upload files too large they will take too long to load or get compressed by the site.
TL;DR: Export from LR at 2400px 80% to avoid recompression
Compressing High Res Images for a Photographer's Online Portfolio
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Hi folks,
I'm a junior web developer helping a friend get their photography portfolio online. From my research on online photography portfolios, I noticed one major thing: almost all sites took forever to load! I know this is because the users are likely uploading their images as large as possible and not doing anything to compress it.
Obviously, I want to avoid this issue and already plan to run all of her images through a compressor. What else can I do to load the images as fast as possible without losing quality?
For context, I am not using a template or site-building service, so there won't be much else bogging down the load time. The homepage is a 4 column + sidebar layout with the 4 columns being populated with her photos. This means upon loading the homepage, there will be about 16 photos and more "below the fold".
Any advice would be helpful!
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You may want to also consider looking at using the <picture> element, if you're not already.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/picture
How to go about building a portfolio?
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I've just begun my photography journey. This new creative outlet has really opened up a new world for me and I'm really enjoying. Little by little I am figuring out what type of photography I like to shoot, style, etc.. But right now I'm just getting out as much as I can and taking as many pictures as I can and then editing them.
I do realize I still have a lot to go before I become "good"/"professional" or at least get a little side business, being that I just started, but what is a good way to build a portfolio? Besides just going out to take pictures - how does one potentially do photoshoots for free in order to build up skills, a client base and practice? How do you find said people?
I'm starting a blog soon and going to incorporate my photography in it along with my progress. From there, I want to build a photography portfolio off of my blog.
How did you guys build a portfolio when you were just starting out?
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Constructing a photography profile is not the most convenient point for beginners like me. A few of the things that are clear to seasoned professional photographers can be brain surgery if you are just beginning. Among one of the most important facets of digital photography is figuring out who you actually are. Keep true to yourself and also just shoot what you intend to photo as well as what brings you pleasure. Realize what makes your heart sing and also what makes you want to press yourself to become better. What makes you delighted and also hungry for even more?
A portfolio is a chance for you to provide your work, however, it's important to take into consideration why you require this profile. If you have no idea what photos to post to your profile, or you have no pictures yet, you require to do some thinking. You're building your profile in hopes of obtaining extra clients, suggesting that you do not have numerous image designs knocking at your door. Start photographing your friends totally free, fire some occasions for charity, and even ask a prominent wedding event photographer from your location to employ you as an aide, just to obtain wedding photos for your profile.
As the primary demand for your profile, you'll need to take as numerous (good) pictures as you can. And as a newbie, you most likely will not have actually paid gigs yet, but that's fine. Take the opportunity to do complimentary or economical strive individuals you recognize up until you have fairly enough images to start your profile with. As you accompany, you can add more (as well as better) pictures that customers will certainly intend to see.
Model release needed for online portfolio?
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I have read past posts and googled the topic of model releases but I have found many different answers. Do I need model releases for photos I publish on my own website? In my case, I had the verbal permission of all my subjects but I am afraid that one day they could take it back. Also, what is the validity of electronic signatures if I email them a release now? (Those who I can still reach, at least.) Thanks for the help!
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It's always wise to have a contract with someone whose picture you want to use. If it collects dust, great, if not it's good insurance.
Next, I'm not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice, and these sorts of laws vary throughout the world, so you would be wise to talk to a lawyer who is familiar with the laws in your jurisdiction!
Model releases are absolutely needed for commercial work (the release is normally a person releasing liability for their likeness to be used in commercial advertising).
For other uses, it likely depends on your state's laws. New York famously doesn't require a release, for a likeness to be part of a work of art. However, a portfolio might be considered commercial work by your state's court system. It would likely take someone (ie a lawyer) who is familiar with your state's case law to give accurate advice about this.
Even when a photographer has a release/iron clad usage contract, it's generally not worth the risk to one's reputation not to take down a model's images if they ask for it.
Since the release is a disclaimer of liability, I'd expect that most jurisdictions would allow the liability to be released after the fact (even long after the fact) but it's probably worth investing in a self addressed stamped envelop or better a short trip.
Going forward, here's a simple model release to print and keep in your camera bag for situations that arise: http://www.nyip.edu/photo-articles/archive/basic-model-release
Suggestions for managing a Gatsby photography website?
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Hi!
I'm currently running a Wordpress blog and a separate Smugmug photography portfolio, but I would like to migrate to a self-hosted Gatsby site, where I have all content under the same roof. I have already exported content from my Wordpress blog and converted into Markdown, and that seems to work fine.
I'd like to manage the website using a CMS instead of pushing changes to a Git repository by hand, but I haven't been able to come up with a good solution for managing my photos and their related metadata like captions/titles, while keeping the photos easily migratable later.
In the ideal case I could keep the full resolution photos in the Git repository with their original filenames and sane locations, and they would be downscaled and watermarked only during the build process, but I don't know how image captions and other data fit in to the picture.
I have been looking at Netlify CMS, but the Media Asset manager does not allow to attach any metadata to the images, and Netlify CMS renames and stores the files based on some hashes, making it difficult to migrate later.
Do you have any suggestions for better content management systems for photos? I would prefer self-hosted open-source stuff if possible. There are commercial solutions like Cloudinary and such, but the less dependencies to third party services I have, the better.
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Hey I have a couple thoughts on how you might set this up, hope it helps!
- Keep WordPress as your CMS. Gatsby is purpose built to pull data from multiple sources, and while many tutorials show MD as the starting point, it's not always a good idea to use it like a database.
- You mentioned your goal is to go self hosted, and you've got many options in this regard. With self hosted WP you can now run whatever plugins you need to build your site, or expose the WP REST API. I prefer a small managed hosting plan on something like WP Engine or Flywheel.
- I generally use Netlify for the Gatsby builds and static hosting.
- You can access your WP data a few different ways:
- Use `gatsby-source-wordpress` to query your data: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-source-wordpress/ This is probably the most well documented/supported CMS, besides Contentful.
- Add a GraphQL API to WordPress: https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql Then use the `gatsby-source-graphql` to query the data.
- Image hosting: You should avoid hosting a huge WP install with all your photos in one folder, on one server. I haven't used this one personally, but you can upload all media to a personal Amazon S3 bucket with this plugin: https://github.com/humanmade/S3-Uploads/releases
- Alternatively you can look into Git LFS for hosting large media in a git workflow, though I'm not sure if you'll run into issues using it with `gatsby-image`
- Lastly plenty of alternative CMSes for Gatsby exist:
- primeCMS: OSS, cloudindary integration, graphQL native
- Strapi: OSS
- Contentful
- Sanity.io
- And many more: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/headless-cms/
Let me know if you have any other questions or want to share a repo, it sounds like you have a pretty cool project!
What size ( pixels and kb ) did you use on your photo website ?
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Currently I set my Lightroom to keep full native résolution ( 3456x5184 ) but I've limiter the size to 2048kb. My website id slow now I have past 1go of pictures and I want to optimise it.
How do you guys handle this ?
EDIT = I follow everyone advice and I set my pictures to 1350x900 to keep 3:2 aspect ratio and my website is way faster than before ! you can check it here PIX | Onigami.fr
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1500x1000, 72 dpi, try and keep the kb under 250.