Professional photographer Natta Summerky offers you these great tips over at 500pxISO.
She has great ideas on how to improve both your workflow and your images, and doing some of these things has helped me move forward in my photography.
Forget about your watermark. As much as we all don’t like our pictures stolen or used without credit, probably all professional and truly successful photographers never stamp their photos with a watermark. In the early days, it was an artistic tool to make sure a buyer knows that a particular work is genuine and carried a certain “quality stamp” attitude with it, but nowadays watermarking is primarily used by amateurs and therefore is regarded as a bold sign of unprofessionalism.
Constantly edit your portfolio. A good idea is to always take some time and take a step back to trim and re-edit your portfolio. Make sure it is always consistent color-wise, has your recent work and does not include multiple takes from the same shoot if they are only slightly different from each other. Mix and match your photos in an interesting way, put your wide angle shots next to close ups and see if you can make a connection, a story even if the shots might not be taken around the same time. If you see that your older pictures don’t match your current style don’t hesitate to either delete them or, if you are feeling sentimental, put them in one of your galleries and out of your Profile.
Be aware of creative trends and work your style around them. That includes following such trends closely in a timely manner, or on the contrary, ignoring the established trends and working to find some new photographic elements that might develop into future trends. Although certain subjects are timeless and will be photographed year after year, many ideas tend to age really fast. Another thing you might consider not putting into your primary professional portfolio are detail shots of flowers, insects and such unless it’s done in a truly unique and technically challenging way.
Read the full article with more tips over at 500pxISO.
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