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8 Common Mistakes in Food Photography Portfolios: What I Discovered Reviewing 234 Portfolios
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0:00 Intro.
1:02 Mistake #1
1:56 Mistake #2
2:33 Mistake #3
4:01 Mistake #4
5:16 Mistake #5
6:43 Mistake #6
7:25 Mistake #7
8:37 Mistake #8
9:22 Outro.
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ALLIE!!!!
It's generous of you to ask for portfolios and also help people make theirs better!
I thought it would be the photos themselves, but it's more about how they're presented. I have a few sites I've jury rigged together using the free pages through Adobe portfolio. I should probably redo that.
Thank you so much for creating such an informative piece of content. I'm absolutely in love with your work now!
Super helpful Joanie! Thank you ☺I don't have too many mistakes but I can still do better! The portfolios you showed were stunning 👏
Wow, great advice, Joanie! I have a multipurpose website that includes food writing, cookbooks, etc. ., so I guess my takeaway is I need separate website just for photography? So helpful! thank you.
Great video! Thanks for the tips!
Wonderful, Joanie! I learned I need to add some more images to my portfolio. 😊
Thanks Joanie for this. Thankfully I'm almost away from the 5 points. Just the under the fold part I need to work on it :)) . Can you please elaborate on the 6th point. What images should be there in a portfolio. Thanks.
As always, great advice❣️ Even though I am not, and never will be, a food photographer by trade, these are great nuggets to incorporate on my site for my customers’ experience!
I love the colour gamut of the video…Feels like a pretty expensive lens.
Awesome!! Thanks for the tips. I will practice some basic food photography at later date.
Great video, thx! Saw a new layout that is very appealing that I will use :D and happy to see most things I am already doing!
Now working on styling and composition, so can't wait for your new lessons/ pdf/ video in that department ;)
Great video, very helpful tips. I’m just building my website and know the last few things to check.
thank you so much I have been thinking about changing my website up a little and indeed you have helped.
I wish I'd seen the call for portfolio sites! I recently moved my bio above the fold because a photographer teacher told me to, and now I wanna move it back down. It bugged me having it be what clients see first, but she said that method helped initiate a connection with the client? Like, "Hi, I'm a real person whose work you're about to view." Any thoughts on that?
A lot of good observations regarding UI, but very few regarding the actual work that haven't been mentioned elsewhere
Oh Joanie! What a timely and informative video. Just what I needed, and you've given me lots to think about as I work on building my portfolio. Thank you for the suggestion of having 20 – 30 images, because I never knew how many to have. Thanks for all that you do. You're a treasure!!
i want to buy your book but im Brazilian and Amazon doenst allow me to do so. Can you help me ?
the way i show my gallely is wrong and i tottaly agree with what you said. I will fix it as soon as possible. thanks a lot ( kisses from Brazil to you )
I love this! So good to see you on YouTube again Joanie! Appreciate you peeking at all of those portfolios so that you could make this one! Off to see how many mistakes I made! :)