As an artist, your portfolio acts as your resume and shows the world exactly what you’re capable of. The emotions you elicit or impression you give can be the most important determining factor for whether a client decides to reach out to you and, ultimately, hire you. So whether you’re just starting out, looking to level up where you are, or looking to branch into a new genre of photography, this component of your game has to be rock-solid in order for you to attract the right clients and get the work that you want.

In this one-hour session, we do a deep-dive into your portfolio and identify where there may be weak points, identify breaks in fundamentals, and ultimately get you on a path to putting together a body of work that reaches the right audience and you are proud of. Before our session even begins, you have the option to submit any body of work you’d like for me to review ahead of time.

During my years of teaching and mentoring across multiple disciplines, I’ve found that a hybrid approach to imparting knowledge and feedback has been the most effective, for artists especially. In our session, I will drill down on certain fundamentals that everyone needs to have locked down, but also tailor it towards your specific goals and stylistic vision as an artist and creator.

Topics we may cover but are not limited to:

-your artistic philosophy

-storytelling with still imagery

-leveraging your strengths towards carving your unique path

-how to capture and create more dynamic photos

-shallow dive into editing and color theory as it pertains to your body of work and goals

-stylistic choices and achieving consistency

-shooting for the look you want to achieve

-how to better tailor your work for your target audience

-platforms for hosting your portfolio (Squarespace, Wordpress, Pic-Time, etc)

-social media audits

*Please note that this is not a workshop on editing. While also very important, this session focuses more on the foundations of how you shoot and present your work, and improving the final product through that. Editing style is something we’ll touch on during the session and I am more than happy to give pointers that you can immediately implement into your work, but this will not be a deep-dive into editing— that will be reserved for a technical mentoring session that I will be offering later in the year.