When I started freelancing as a professional photographer, I knew I had to put together a printed portfolio. Unfortunately, I found it very hard to find useful resources on the Internet on how to actually do this. As I had some experience in bookbinding I managed to bind my first book by myself, but after three books I realized that in this stage of my career, I needed to have something a little more flexible.
There are tons of portfolio builders out there for you to choose from, from popular options like Photoshelter and SmugMug to lesser-known options like Cargo Collective and Dunked. So how do you choose the best one?
Putting together presentations often involves breaking out either PowerPoint or Keynote. But while both programs are great, they're designed to work just as well for the high school student, business professional, and creative professional. Fortunately, there's finally a program that focuses on the last of these.
Over the last year, WordPress owner Automattic has launched pages specifically targeting bands, brides, restaurants and even cities. Today, we can finally add photographers to that list.
This new page is meant to attract photographers, designers and visual artists looking to build a quality portfolio where they can display their work. Not that you couldn't build portfolios using WordPress.com before, but this is the first time the company has reached out to photographers personally, adding them to the list of demographics it's gone after in the past.