If you want to be a Professional Photographer what should you start creating first - a blog or a website?
I started with a blog first, but am yet to perfect it!
MorryJooh Photography Thank you for the feedback. How will your photos get to people, so that they like or criticize your photography?
Paweł Kadysz There are a lot of photography communities you can use to get exposure for your work. Tookapic, Flickr, 500px, Instagram or even Facebook would work. And it's much easier to gain some following on those sites than promote your own website or blog.
MorryJooh Photography Woow thank you for that advice i will follow it to the letter
Richard Morwood
I am currently starting my photography business. At the moment I'm getting to events when I can and using the event's social media account to share my photos.
For example, I recently attended a rally hosted by RallyNSW. I put the photos in a public gallery on my Facebook account then RallyNSW shared my gallery to their timeline. Their account has the engagement and reach, mine hosts the content. From doing this, I've now got extra friends.
In each image of the gallery, I link to where prints can be purchased from. I tried putting this on just the gallery then found very few people knew the link was there, ggrrr! Print sales currently go through shutterzoo.com.au. It's just gallery hosting, not a website for me to show off. Definately not one I hand out to people like "Hey! Check my Shutterzoo account!"
Next step is to setup social accounts for my business, then invite all my friends to like my page. I didn't do this first because I was dumb, didn't have a name and din't have a logo.
I'll be using Facebook to host most of the images as users really won't go out of it to your website to look at the gallery. Plus I don't really want them to. When users like images, the engagement score of the gallery goes up, and the gallery gets shown to more people (friends of friends - "Hey! You might like this content!")
After my social is setup, I'll be making a website to host portfolio images. This will only be for portfolio content and contact details. Maybe a few hero images for events I've been at recently. Not sure I'll use a blog on it yet.
MorryJooh Photography That is a mile step to grow your business
Mouhsine Idrissi I guess at first not only you need to be good at photography but good at the type of photography you want to be professional at, than no matter what your social media platform is you will always need to have a website that people will go back to and discover you or get to know more about you. Once you have that you can blog on your own site and not having a website does not stop you from having a blog about whatever you are passionate about.
Monika Mo Doesn't matter. There are pro photographers without any of them. Blog or a website - they are just some way to promote your art/business. If you find a better one - there is nothing to stop you from being a professional.
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Paweł Kadysz I think, that if you want to be a professional photographer you should start with getting good at photography. So good that people start asking you to take photos for money. No blog or website is necessary.