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Response to please critique my image site

from tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com)
Shawn... do not get freaked out. You will make it work. You have an intensity and desire that exceeds anyone I have ever encountered except maybe Chris Verene and all he had that you haven't picked up yet (and you're very close) is a tight focus on a specific goal... not style, not genre, but goal. But neither have I. The biggest reason I don't have a website yet is the range of material will be very diverse and I'm mystified. I'm going with the flow chart method, circles with titles connecting the disparate bodies of work and the images in each and then the people I want to see each and what's appropriate text and yeeeeaaaahhh...... I have a hard time just filing the film, forget organizing a website or a portfolio.

You have one genre of work you're handling and maybe two markets. Your task is simple, spread the prints out and organize them like an exhibit, see Alan's advice "You might consider reorganising the thumbnail pages. Instead of grouping by model, try some other stronger visual characteristic: pose, attitude, head vs half-length vs full-length, whatever" It will make the website more about you instead of about the model, which is what you've got now. People looking for a photographer don't care what the models' capabilities are (different "looks") or even what his/her name is, they're there to see your work and what your capabilities are. Keep banging at it, and don't worry, you'll get a shot at mine one day (hoo boy, that'll be fun)... t

(posted 8823 days ago)

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