Portfolio re jig

Contemplate putting a lot of text in the notes for an album called "Words" represented by a picture of thd word "Words" and linked to from points high and low on your profile page. 

An example is available on my profile.

Embed at least one picture high up your page.

I suggest splitting an album of pictures of your home studio off the nearby locations. Then you have text about that as a link rather than a paragraph.

My browser is set to show text easily for me to read, making it all bold doesn't improve on that. Making a few words or lines bold or italic may. 

Edited by MidgePhoto

I have taken all advice on board.

Condensed my notes, got rid of most capitals except the bottom section of important information.

Included a stark portrait of myself so people can see who they are talking to.

Removed any images not physically shot in my house from the home album.

Now to work on about 20 adverts and events I have to do for the rest of the year, phew!

MidgePhoto said

Contemplate putting a lot of text in the notes for an album called "Words" represented by a picture of thd word "Words" and linked to from points high and low on your profile page. 

An example is available on my profile.

Embed at least one picture high up your page.

I suggest splitting an album of pictures of your home studio off the nearby locations. Then you have text about that as a link rather than a paragraph.

My browser is set to show text easily for me to read, making it all bold doesn't improve on that. Making a few words or lines bold or italic may. 

Edited by MidgePhoto

This is a great idea.  I put my "Terms and Conditions" for TF in an album as it would just overwhelm my profile notes.

Everly Rose said

I have taken all advice on board.

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If you can bear one more bit of detail?

On my tall, not wide, screen, the image you've put in the body of the profile is wide-enough that it displaces the rest of the text and contents a long way down, appearing only below the side-bar, and leaving an acre or so of white space above it.

Narrow it a bit, I'd suggest putting into the img tag that defines it scale=50% or width = 400px   and then everything should line up.

If you make the image a link to the image file, anyone clicking on it or poking it will be shown the whole thing.  You might choose to do that in a new window, for desktop displays.

Included a stark portrait of myself so people can see who they are talking to.

Now to work on about 20 adverts and events I have to do for the rest of the year, phew!

 Stark, starkers, starkest might be the progression?

Put links in to your adverts, perhaps in your words album?

Or have an adverts and schedule album??

Everly Rose said

I have taken all advice on board.

Condensed my notes, got rid of most capitals except the bottom section of important information.

Included a stark portrait of myself so people can see who they are talking to.

Removed any images not physically shot in my house from the home album.

Now to work on about 20 adverts and events I have to do for the rest of the year, phew!

This is much better and I actually made it to the images… but..

• My name is .. Not needed.. your name is at the top of the page.
• Why is your intro using quotation maks?  Not needed.
• From rates down its much better,  but there seems to be an inconsistence in text sizes..  full day / half day booking gets lost.
• I charge a extra.. should be I charge an extra.
• Tours and events..   heres a list etc.. doesn’t need to be caps or have a bullet ..
• bulleted dates..  date should be bold, followed by normal text.

Page formatting still needs a bit of work, but for me its much better..  :-)

I mean I just think your brilliant 🤩 your port is fire 🔥 and so are you xx keep doing what your doing xx

Thanks everyone

Its all now completely amended with links to my events which there are alot of under the events tab. I've tried to keep it short and sweet.

Hi Everly, the content is succinct, which is great but your 'font sizes are all over the place. Also on my tablet the large picture of you, which is a great pic btw, is creating a huge gap between your text sections.

I have come to this review after 4 days. So I have the benefit of hindsight in relation to what others have said.

My first bit of advice would be to delete that black and white image in your profile notes section. It’s still sized far to big and is causing 80% of your main text to appear below the column on the right.  I also don’t think you need that black and white image. You have more than enough images to see what and how you model and how you look as a model. 

You have removed the capitals in the first paragraph, but it’s still all bold. You need to just have a heading in bold and the rest of the text in normal paragraph size and font.

Despite lots of advice, you are still setting your text to the middle rather than to the left. I would cange this now. This is because people read text on a phone, tablet and pc in a different way to paper. It needs to be to the left for digital.

You also need to break the top paragraph into several sections to make it easier to read.

I know all the above sounds a bit harsh, but given you have done so many shoots, it’s such a shame not to make your profile just a bit better. 

As for your home studio album. You have fallen into the same trap as many studios in that you show images taken AT the studio, rather than images OF the studio. 

I hope this helps. If you want to take a look at my profile you will see what others have said about headings, paragraphs, bullet points etc. You will also notice I haven’t made any suggestions about your content. Like you, most of us struggle with this. I am on iteration number 5,000 and still don’t feel it’s any where near good enough. Yours has the right content. It just needs laying out a bit. And you are definitely not alone with your over thinking. 

Its the same with images. I have changed my main images about 1,000 times. Both content wise and layout. And I still feel it’s not right. But luckily for photographers on here, it’s not as important as for models who are effectively selling a model service we buy.

I have tried grouping my images into headshots, genre, colour, black and white etc. I then look at it and feel it looks good, but then look at it the next day and change it all again. It’s now all over the place so I have given up. But it’s been good looking at yours as it helps me understand my own better. So I will be back to laying it out as suggested above soon. It’s also I suggestion I put to you. No wrongs or rights though. 

Good luck 👍