Comments on: 10 Secrets to Successful Online Photo Portfolios

By: Khizar

Khizar — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:49:07 +0000

liked the line ‘If people are constantly praising the design of your portfolio website, then you are probably doing something wrong’

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By: Pedro Pimentel

Pedro Pimentel — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:31:47 +0000

Amazing and super relevant info. Thank you very much. Also tried to adjust mine @ http://www.pedropimentel.net All comments are deeply appreciated.

By: London Wedding Photographer

London Wedding Photographer — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:37:06 +0000

Get tips, thank you!

By: Jan Wieczorek

Jan Wieczorek — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:49:40 +0000

Nice article! Very helpful. I tried to follow it on my portfolio http://www.janwieczorek.com
Except the keyboard thing :/

By: Chris Owyoung

Chris Owyoung — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:32:04 +0000

Hey Derek,

I just tried linking to specific photos in Tony’s music portfolio and it worked just fine. As long as you see the url changing as you move through the photos on any website, you can copy that unique URL and link to that image specifically.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:43:19 +0000

Good advice, well-written. But on point #3, there seems to be a mistake. The writer seems to say that with a photoshelter site you can not only link to specific portfolios but to exact photos within that portfolio (“Tim Snow has a portfolio that’s easy to link to, even if that means linking to a photo in the middle of a sequence. All PhotoShelter portfolios automatically work this way.”

I did not find this to be the case. Using the Tony Snow portfolio given in the example, I tried to link to a specific photo in the sequence of one of the galleries and it did not work. The link always took me to the beginning of the gallery/portfolio.

By: Elen

Elen — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:40:00 +0000

While many of these tips are useful to any photographer’s portfolio, there is one phrase that simply doesn’t turn my crank: ‘If people are constantly praising the design of your portfolio website, then you are probably doing something wrong.” I disagree whole-heartedly with this sort of comment. If you can create a unique and eye catching website, then it is more likely that your viewers will be interested in what else you can produce, i.e. your images. Of course I agree with keeping your site clean and organized, but unfortunately people tend to take this to a level which I can only describe as boring. Don’t you want to be unique? Whats to help your potential client from deciding between that helvetica site with a white background and wedding photography from that other helvetica site with a white background and more wedding photography? Instead of conforming to the photography design standards, take yourself out of the box and show your clientele what you are capable of on a grander scale and that you are not just a one trick pony. Defining yourself does not have to be just through your images, the surrounding design will also say a lot about the photographer.