Posts Tagged ‘Photography portfolio website’

A portfolio is a tightly edited collection of photos. It can be presented online, or in hard copy, such as a book. It is not necessarily only your best photos (though the photos do all need to be good), but rather a set of photos that go together.

A good portfolio can help you attract new customers, or gain a foothold into a new genre of photography that you have little previous experience in. Whereas a bad portfolio can do just the opposite.

In this article we'll look at some tips for how to put together a good photography portfolio.

A website is almost essential for photographers today. It helps you market yourself 24 / 7. It lets potential clients easily see the sort of work you create, the services or products you provide, and will bring in new clients or sales. Even if you are not interested in sales, it still lets you share your vision with the rest of the world.

However, there are quite a few factors that go into creating a successful photography website. In this article I am not going to go into how to code a website or look at a specific website provider.

Rather, I will go over the important points you need to consider when building a photography website. These are the same whether you are having a website custom built for yourself, or using one of the many photography website providers, such as Zenfolio or Smugmug.

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