Building a Photography Portfolio Online

Some tips for building a photography portfolio.
Did you know you can make money off your pictures?
Free Stock Photos
I recommend using Flickr where you can easily change the settings and tags on multiple pictures and albums at once.

Summary:

  • Creating an Album on Flickr with your Stock Photography (Images people can use for free).
  • Another album for your professional photos.
  • Using descriptive tags and captions to help people find your images and albums.

Understanding Creative Commons


On Flickr you have many licencing options for your photos.
Use "Creative Commons - Attribution" to make an image free to use, and you should receive credit from any site or media that used your image, by name and preferably a link to your portfolio. It can help to specify in the descriptions how they can credit you. It's a good gig; people often search for free to use images to use in their projects, and they might come back to you for more.

Video: How to create albums and edit batches of photos

Make your best images "All Rights Reserved", meaning nobody can use them without permission; and write a small description of how to contact you.
How much to sell the images for is up to you. I suggest starting with small prices $20-$100 until your portfolio is more popular.

Organize your folder so that the best images are featured on top, then people are more likely to browse your albums.

Social Media

Don't forget to feature your best images on social media. (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube?).

On Facebook make a Public Album of your best photos. When strangers visit your Facebook page, they can only see your public albums and updates. Write a description on how to contact you or where to find the rest of the images.
You might want to think of a way to not use the exact same image and description as from your Flickr or other album, then some search engines will like you more.

On Twitter and Google+ I suggest sharing the images over time. Don't upload them to the network but share the Flickr link. Maybe share one image per day, or every couple hours if you have a whole bunch. You don't want to spam your followers with 1000 pictures in one day, sharing them at timed intervals can help you build a following.

On LinkedIn I suggest linking to your album every now and then when there are special updates - batch of new images.

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