Jim Hobson responded:
Sorry, but I’m not sure what your business is. Maybe I missed something. In general, your portfolio should be 10 - 12 images of your best work. Your pictures should be in focus, well exposed, well printed and interesting. I’ve found more than 12 bores people. Not many customers will go through all 24 images. A wedding portfolio should be larger and cover the whole wedding. They will go through the whole thing. Do not include image styles you don’t intend to do. How you display them is up to you. Many people do it many different ways. I always used a binder so pages could be updated easily.
SareBearPhotography responded:
Sorry Jim…services not business. I’m tired today. I haven’t been sleeping well. :( Stressing about when I am being paid off and how I am going to pay bills and what I should take in school while people are telling me I am stupid to take what I want. Stress! HAHA
Jim Hobson responded:
Stress….. I know that one. Step back, take a deep breath. Try to think logically, as if you were someone else looking at you. If you were in the medical field, try to stay there. That’s where your experience is. If you heart is in photography, do that as a secondary occupation. I read a book once on "How to make $25,000 A Year With Your Camera". It had a lot of good ideas, if your feet aren’t lazy. Do the portfolio and hit the pavement.
Jim Hobson responded:
There are a lot of tough decisions when you have to feed a family, and photography is a tough business to do it in.
Sorry, but I’m not sure what your business is. Maybe I missed something.
In general, your portfolio should be 10 - 12 images of your best work. Your pictures should be in focus, well exposed, well printed and interesting. I’ve found more than 12 bores people. Not many customers will go through all 24 images. A wedding portfolio should be larger and cover the whole wedding. They will go through the whole thing.
Do not include image styles you don’t intend to do.
How you display them is up to you. Many people do it many different ways. I always used a binder so pages could be updated easily.
Sorry Jim…services not business. I’m tired today. I haven’t been sleeping well. :( Stressing about when I am being paid off and how I am going to pay bills and what I should take in school while people are telling me I am stupid to take what I want. Stress! HAHA
Stress….. I know that one. Step back, take a deep breath. Try to think logically, as if you were someone else looking at you. If you were in the medical field, try to stay there. That’s where your experience is. If you heart is in photography, do that as a secondary occupation. I read a book once on "How to make $25,000 A Year With Your Camera". It had a lot of good ideas, if your feet aren’t lazy.
Do the portfolio and hit the pavement.
There are a lot of tough decisions when you have to feed a family, and photography is a tough business to do it in.