Avoid These Website Mistakes + Reviews

Making a good photography website is key if you want a commercial photography business and you want to make money from your passion. In this video I use several photographers website in order to give feedback on how you should make your own killer website.

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[TinHouseStudioUK]

Its been a busy few weeks of shooting, so let me know in the comments below if there are any videos you would like to see from me as I am about to do another filming day :)

[Joaofariach]

Thank you so much for the feedback Mr. Choucino. I'm the third photographer and It is Brazilian Portuguese, you are right! I've already changed the files format, they were really big and a mistake and now everything is more organized, tidy and fast! I will take the chat out and try to make a more direct design (taking out the home page for instance). Again really happy for your feedback!

[greenlemon]

Thanks a lot for your critique. Indeed I have an identity crisis so your pieces of advice mean the world to me. I'm really glad that you chose my website and I didn't expect that. I guess I have to reorganize stuff around and make up my mind about what type of photographer I want to be. Thanks a lot again!

[Sawta]

Thank you for this video. I didn't submit my website, mainly because I didn't realize you had asked, but I found a lot of the same mistakes on my website that you had covered here.

It's important to not just get a critique, but to get one that is clear and obvious, like this one was. I like that you manage to give people feedback in a way that they can actually use. It's not simply "Oh wow, great job." or "Oh, that's bad." You make the effort to explain why it's bad, or what could be done to improve.

I have quite a bit of work ahead of me, but I'm glad to finally start seeing _what_ it is that I was doing wrong, and _how_ I can improve my site.

[smepable]

Super interesting video, would like to see another round from time to time!

[chillarychillary]

Would love to see this as a regular video series

[douglasbarnes]

Great feedback for those folks. Thanks for posting. You must have had a load to choose from!

[benharris]

Love it, learnt a ton. I’m scrapping tomorrow’s test shoot to go over my website.

[essychan]

Thanks for this video, and all your other videos too :) Loved how you went through these website with the pros and cons. Very informative!
I’m also not a fan of contact forms, also because you lack administration of your send message.
Do you think combining portraits, travel and business (real-estate) is too much?

[longliveclassicmusic]

I really don't think the problem is so much that people put a too broad range of genres on one website. I think it's more to the fact that almost no one does the multiple genres they put up equally well. If your beauty photography is killer and then you have another section that is landscape that is just extremely poorly done, people who may otherwise hire you for beauty will be left doubting your abilities based on the poorer work. It always comes down to you will always be judged based on your worst photograph. Always.

[tundrusphoto]

Hello, Scott: It is interesting that you commented on the lack of a date on some the copyright notices. You noted that without a date you couldn't tell whether the photographer is still in business. I would point out that a date is not required in many countries to assert copyright. If a date is what you are looking to see to determine the status of a photographer, that is an interesting assumption when the date is not a legal necessity.

[TasteofTaboo]

something super important nowadays is missing, your website has to be responsive and has to work superfast and easy from a phone and even with a not superfast connection.

More and more people hate using computers and want to do everything on their phones, I hate that but I have to adapt for that.

[Popa_Bogdan_Light_Drawing]

Thank you :) working on it right now :) Hope to sent it to you for review in the future:)

[TheTraveller]

Tons to learn from this series. I am photographer from India too, I was just about to get my website. This opened a lot 😊💯

[ItsAllSubjective]

i'm the owner of the final website, I will take this advice to heart and analyze your advice. THANK YOU for the advice man

[MariosKarampalis]

how we can send you our site - portfolio?

[AMPhotographer]

Thanks for another awesome video :) I really need to iron out my website 😆

[fastbacktina]

Great tips! Thanks so much for sharing. :-)

[hipbdaniel]

FYI, a bunch of the links in the description got cut short for some reason.

[robertmaxfield]

The last website I was trying to figure out what all the plants had to do with anything.