How Many Images?

Grant Menmuir

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To be honest, yeah the 5000 random images endless scroll thing folks do always makes me click away, it's overwhelming. It also means I don't get down to tagged images.

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Huw

4090!

For me it’s about giving a snapshot of what my skill set is and my style to a model who I’m trying to book. So one image max from a shoot with a limit of around 20 images in total that are diverse.

I know that I’d just move on as soon as I get beyond 6 row of images on a portfolio so apply the same principle myself. If someone wants to see more they can look in the albums.

I have a shuffle around and refresh once a month really.

I have 82 images the rest are in albums, I just like them. But every month or so I drop down to a standard member and just have 15 for a while, when this happens I think to myself I must do a proper cull! (As an aside I was thinking why 15, it looks really odd on a desktop and then looked at my profile on a mobile and 5 rows of 3 looks good!)

Camelot Photography said

I often return to the eternal question of “How many images should a portfolio on PP contain?” It...

Albums.

https://purpleport.com/group/general-chat/184118/albums-anyone-might-have-usefully-perhaps/page/1/

Also, why keep returning, "often"?

Resolve the question, write the article, describe the pros, cons, agreements, disagreements, work rounds.

What is a portfolio for?

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Camelot Photography said

I often return to the eternal question of “How many images should a portfolio on PP contain?” It seems to me that if there are too many then people won’t ever get past the first few, too few and they might not get a fair view of your work. What do you do in terms of numbers? What about order? Last shoot first or group all images of a particular model together?

I will be interested in what other togs (and models) do and why.

Thanks

1. Plenty of people can get by with the 15 allowed for a free port. If you choose carefully a selection a dozen or so gives a reasonable impression BUT it makes it harder to keep old favourites and show new work .

2. Put the stuff you want people to see at the top. If people re-visit, then I'd want them to see the newest stuff so I let stay at the top but I do shuffle things together as people move down. If your profile is quite static put the best stuff / most liked stuff where people will look at it - i.e. first.  The optimum order is not too random without large blocks of shots that are much the same as each other. 

3. There's the old standby of "if you think there are too many pictures put some in folders and hide them from the main page." HOWEVER I've seen plenty of people who have a gazzillion folders and I've no idea if I want to look in the "Jane, Feb 2021" folder - the chances are I want to look at their B&W or their portraits, or their location shots, and they have probably organized PP the way they arranged their hard disk - logical to them and only them and counter productive for viewers. 

4. I've uploaded about 650 pictures to PP and have deleted a shade under half.  Of the survivors about 1/4 are hidden in folders, and I think 200ish on the main page is too many, but imagicide is always hard, there's that one you think everyone should love and no-one does or the one that got 20 loves but no one has loved or commented on for years and soon. 

Sometimes in the creative world you have to kill your own children.

In the same way in the old days bands/singers would record 14 or 15 songs for an album, but the medium of the day only allowed for 10 - and the others ended up as B-Sides.

CalmNudes said

 

 plenty of people who have a gazzillion folders and I've no idea if I want to look in the "Jane, Feb 2021" folder - the chances are I want to look at their B&W or their portraits, or their location shots, and they have probably organized PP the way they arranged their hard disk - logical to them and only them and counter productive for viewers. 

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https://purpleport.com/group/general-chat/184118/albums-anyone-might-have-usefully-perhaps/page/1/

notes that an image may be in several albums.

It may be that the best or preferred set of images on initial display changes from week to week.

Making the home page images just another album, and allowing one click to select which album is now the home page would be interesting.

I'd suggest that if a user lists several genres they work in, their home page would helpfully show an image in each of those genres. Either as an image, or as an album.

Can I butt in and ask a question related to this?

I'm trying to tidy up my port. I appear to have a lot of images on my home page which are dupliacted in albums. Is there an easy way to delete them from the home page without deleting from the album?

Paul Monty said

Can I butt in and ask a question related to this?

I'm trying to tidy up my port. I appear to have a lot of images on my home page which are dupliacted in albums. Is there an easy way to delete them from the home page without deleting from the album?

If you go to the purple cog, click image manager and just scroll down clicking the hide from "your portfolio" boxes that will do the job.  From the pull down at the top you can select "pictures in album whatever" so you don't even need to pay attention to choosing the right ones :-) 

Paul Monty said

Can I butt in and ask a question related to this?

I'm trying to tidy up my port. I appear to have a lot of images on my home page which are dupliacted in albums. Is there an easy way to delete them from the home page without deleting from the album?

The word you're looking for is Hide.  You can hide an image from your portfolio, and that will leave it only in any albums that it's in.

The only risk to deleting it from everywhere is if you Delete it :)

Thanks both

I haven't added any images for quite some time but one strategy might be to add the majority of your images to folders and limit your 'loose' images to what you consider to be your best work (or if applicable to what you are currently promoting/ casting for). That way, you might grab your target viewers' attention and they can dig deeper if they are inspired to do so. I believe Farcebook et al have developed this into a precise science! I had a go digging into the algorithms when I was advertising on Farcebook but it made my head spin/ left me cold. Not really my sort of thing.