5 Common Portfolio Mistakes (Commercial Photography)

[@sarahdaniels3222]

Haha, Jenny Lake is an excellent choice! Thanks for the hot portfolio tips, Joanie!

[@josephchan4198]

Thanks for the tips on writing contact page and much more.

[@scottcunningham4115]

Hi Joanie Whilst I do love these “lectures” I’ve noticed of late you have steered away from the practical education. A few years ago I started following you because you literally showed me how you took photos. How you styled and how you used the lighting to produce an image. I learnt a lot. But now it seems you just sit and talk. And don’t get me wrong, another reason why I followed you is cause you are easy to listen to. You are a lovely lady. I just wish you’d go back and do some more practical “how to” videos. I miss the how to Joanie 😊

[@TheBiteShot]

Thanks for note Scott! Will try to incorporate more active how-tos in the coming calendar!

[@creativephebecooks]

I literary wrote down all of the points you mention in my handy photography notebook because I will surely be taking heed as I look forward to revamping my site! Thanks Joanie. Much appreciated. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@MollyPinon]

This was so helpful! Thanks Joanie!

[@benharris3949]

Brilliant, thank you so much. I’m rebuilding my website, so this is well timed. “Available for remote” is a key word that’s definitely going in my availability.

[@petercerrato8447]

Is your video setup on these videos with the Nikon Z7 as well? Image is very nice.

[@julielairdjohnson7259]

This is so great. Thank you!

[@wildthistlekitchen]

Such a helpful, info-packed video Joanie! Bravo and thank you, as usual. ❤️

[@edytagirgiel3168]

thank you so much for these tips! A great video, as always!

[@nicolasblum9975]

This is great content, so practical and full of examples. Applying these 5 points to my portfolio

[@TheBiteShot]

Awesome! So glad to hear!!

[@besosdenyc]

Developing my website as we speak. You were right on point with questions I had and ones I didn’t even know I had. Thank you!!!

[@Houston1906]

Very good information here! Right on time, as I am in the process of building my product photography site.

[@ravelg]

Another excellent video! So helpful! You’re also so kind with your critiques!

[@nikkiastwood7395]

Such a great video, so helpful. Thank you Joanie!

[@flymetotheveganbuffet]

That kitchen really turned out amazing!

[@craigstelmack9762]

Thank you. Revamping my website as we speak! Clear, concise content like always.🙂

[@bro7269]

Well, so much for starting my food photography business in Phoenix! Clearly the competition is way better! 😂😂😂

[@TheBiteShot]

I don’t do a lot of local work 😅 most of my clients are outside of AZ

[@Sugarjukebox]

Hi Joanie, thank you for your input on portfolios it was interesting to watch. You make it sound like you are new to motion (which is my thing), so I went visit your portfolio. I hope you don't mind I give you some feedback about the motion section. The GIFs: the quality is not very high and show sometimes green pixels, even when the files are quite large (13 -18 MB is too much!). I would suggest export them better quality and then scale the file size down, you can get them easily down to ~500kB. Or make looping video's on repeat without displaying controls. It gives a much better result!

[@luckykazivlog8782]

Amazing! 😍❤👌

[@ChristineSiracusa]

Great points, Joanie. Thank you.

[@TheBiteShot]

Thanks for watching!

[@ellefrizzell5263]

As I'm currenlty building my webiste and portfolio, this is invaluable information; thank you.

[@TheBiteShot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@leilaturlybek300]

Thank you ! 🌸

[@AtlantaTerry]

Joanie, is there some KZbin "law" that says on camera presenters are supposed to wear a black shirt?

[@TheBiteShot]

:) No law, just lots of shooting going on here so gotta wear the black

[@exploringsoutheastarizona2167]

Hi Joanie, enjoy watching your channel. How did you start out, did you cook your own food? Did you buy pre-made food? Just curious. Thank you in advance for your answer. My son( a chef for Marriott Hotels) asked me last week about food photography. (His boss was wanting to know) I referred my son to you and sent him links to a few of your videos.( My name is Lee Peterson, I live approx. 50 mi. SE of Tuscon)

[@vinceknowseverything]

Great Stuff💙

[@yeevang8751]

Will you talk about how much you should charge as a beginner and into expert level?

[@ullawalder331]

You are just SO good! Totally nice and friendly and positive. I got some useful information that I didn’t think of myself. Struggle with my homepage constantly - never sure if it is good enough. And it is just so much work doing it by yourself 😊. What I would like to know is how you scale your photos so that they are sharp but not too “heavy”. Love from Austria

[@lefthandright01]

I got asked to submit a portfolio for a photographic ambassadorship for a camera company. I got asked to submit a portfolio of 5 images.

[@zawis.p]

Hi,,, from Indonesia

[@misato321]

its strange that most of them is food photographer.

[@mohamadalfalah3456]

Hello, how are you, I hope you are fine. I work in the field of montage and I am still a student and I need to work online. I can work with you for permanent work. I am honored and pleased to work with you. Thank you. I wish you a happy and successful day

[@tedming3515]

Oh, common, Joan! Photography is a visual art. I judge photographers by their pictures not by what is written on their website under the section About. If I like the pictures I hire the person even she writes about herself: "I am just coping because I am a bloody loser" U-u-u-u-u-u, somebody give me a tissue to wipe my nose!!! A-a-a-a-a-ah...!

[@Miz-Newsy]

Whilst your point of view is valid, Google ranks sites based on content (text) and keywords. So text is a necessary evil for good ranking so the photos actually get eye on them.

[@tedming3515]

@@Miz-Newsy Nonsense. It's simply statistically impossible. Because the vocabulary of keywords is pretty limited and the number of those aspiring to get into the first 10 of search engine results is astronomical it's at least naive to think that if you put right keywords into your web page your progress will shoot through the sky. Try to move your webpage from 10 358 position in Google search results to... let's say 10 353 by simply editing your About section (putting "right" keywords in it) and see what happens. There is something else in play.