to cull or not to cull?

Is it really essential to cull? 

If your portfolio is principally a selling aid, I can understand the need to reduce it to a 'hold the viewer's attention' size. But if, like me, you use your portfolio as a sort of personal photo album full of memories of great shoots and lovely people, why cull?   

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Orson Carter said

Is it really essential to cull? 

If your portfolio is principally a selling aid, I can understand the need to reduce it to a 'hold the viewer's attention' size. But if, like me, you use your portfolio as a sort of personal photo album full of memories of great shoots and lovely people, why cull?   L

I think Alyssa Taylor made a great point about it being a long scroll down to refs, so I’m gonna put a bunch of stuff in an attic folder

I would put my portfolio in the same place as you Grewy and that I think I should cull down or reorganise in some way

Grewy From the grey cog on your profile, there's a direct link to your References. If that were more prominent, I think the scrolling would be less of an issue.

Grewy said

Orson Carter said

Is it really essential to cull? 

If your portfolio is principally a selling aid, I can understand the need to reduce it to a 'hold the viewer's attention' size. But if, like me, you use your portfolio as a sort of personal photo album full of memories of great shoots and lovely people, why cull?   L

I think Alyssa Taylor made a great point about it being a long scroll down to refs, so I’m gonna put a bunch of stuff in an attic folder

Fair point.

Sensual Art said

Grewy From the grey cog on your profile, there's a direct link to your References. If that were more prominent, I think the scrolling would be less of an issue.

Most probably don't know about the cog, so you could perhaps put something near the top or bottom (or both) of your bio with the link from the cog saying 'tap here to go straight to references' then it covers all bases. I find as the world becomes more and more fast paced people pay less and less attention to what is in the bio anyway. As much as you can reduce the need to scroll the better. Phones sadly exacerbate the problem. Many of us togs are probably on a computer screen most days, where 4 lines of text may not look too wordy, but on a phone, that can become 10 lines and people go "I'll read that later" and never do. I'm guilty of it myself.

Firstadekit exactly

Every now and again I remove a bunch of images. In no time I’m back thinking ‘I should remove some images. Trouble is I’m not sure what I’m trying to achieve in doing so.

A far from unique problem.  

You have very few duds, you can weed old the and underperforming, and spare the favourites... but the effort to do it is more than the saved space is worth. 

You might use the well worn trick of creating a few albums by theme shunting some into those and hiding from the main page. Even then work to reward ratio isn't great :-(

Stanmore said

JDS said

You have a lot of great shots, but my advice is what i got learnd at uni:

have your best work be 10-20 images. absolute FPI worthy top tier.

put the rest in folders.

categorise folders by genre not model.

...more reason, how much more reasonable can it get?.. 30-40 images, that's how much!

And that FPI 'thing' ... meaningless outside of 'PP World'.

Edited by Stanmore

agree, but we're in the PP world, so it works here. The objective is to gain more work, having nothing but FPIs would be a strong selling point. Make a separate website or IG account for the larger portfolio.

JDS said

Stanmore said

JDS said

You have a lot of great shots, but my advice is what i got learnd at uni:

have your best work be 10-20 images. absolute FPI worthy top tier.

put the rest in folders.

categorise folders by genre not model.

...more reason, how much more reasonable can it get?.. 30-40 images, that's how much!

And that FPI 'thing' ... meaningless outside of 'PP World'.

Edited by Stanmore

agree, but we're in the PP world, so it works here. The objective is to gain more work, having nothing but FPIs would be a strong selling point. Make a separate website or IG account for the larger portfolio.

Gain more 'work' = Time for Money.

...but we're in PP world...

Good luck with that.