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<blockquote data-quote="riverside" data-source="post: 170165" data-attributes="member: 14054">Without a distinctive, professional portfolio showcasing your best photographic achievements, not a cluttered personal website, you won't get much work. As others have said, how you construct your portfolio and the message it carries either leads to the first interview (consultation in the trade) or not. From there its all sales pitch in establishing the comfort level a customer requires. What's in the portfolio is highly dependent on what type of work you're seeking. If you're after weddings, better have some sharp, well-composed wedding pictures in there and so on. Don't forget humans have extremely short attention spans and keeping the KISS formula in mind is always good advice. Don't attempt reinventing the wheel. Spend a bunch of time looking at web portfolios presented by commercially successful photographers who specialize in the work you're after. Yes, I did say specialize.&nbsp;&nbsp; For a start-up I wouldn't worry about people questioning whether or not you've been paid for anything in your portfolio, they're more interested in your talent and price (not necessarily in that order). If the money gets serious the bright ones will ask for references.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="riverside, post: 170165, member: 14054"] Without a distinctive, professional portfolio showcasing your best photographic achievements, not a cluttered personal website, you won't get much work. As others have said, how you construct your portfolio and the message it carries either leads to the first interview (consultation in the trade) or not. From there its all sales pitch in establishing the comfort level a customer requires. What's in the portfolio is highly dependent on what type of work you're seeking. If you're after weddings, better have some sharp, well-composed wedding pictures in there and so on. Don't forget humans have extremely short attention spans and keeping the KISS formula in mind is always good advice. Don't attempt reinventing the wheel. Spend a bunch of time looking at web portfolios presented by commercially successful photographers who specialize in the work you're after. Yes, I did say specialize. For a start-up I wouldn't worry about people questioning whether or not you've been paid for anything in your portfolio, they're more interested in your talent and price (not necessarily in that order). If the money gets serious the bright ones will ask for references. [/QUOTE]

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