This is obviously very brief as theres lots we can't discuss online BUT For a VERY limited time you can book an indepth call with my agent to discuss your work with her via zoom tinhouse-studio.com/product/portfolio-review-with-karen-my-agent/
I know I don't have the level to have my portfolio validated by an agent yet. But if you can do this regularly, I definitely will come back to get mine reviewed!
Loads more of this content is great, I shoot live stuff for the most part but I really like seeing how other pasts of the industry work out and you have pushed out so much good knowledge. Love it.
Whilst I don't personally operate in the realm of product and high end food photography, this was an insightful conversation. I'm looking at redoing my website so I'll definitely be thinking about some of the things you mention :)
Finally, I get to see your work! It’s fantastic, unique and every piece can stand by itself as an artwork. My favorite one is the still life with the pomegranate. The overall look of the portfolio is commercially, but I think that’s the whole idea for what you do. I imagine that many of the shot setups are painstakingly and meticulously done. Most excellent job❤
Good to see a complete other Scott.... bit shy even. Where you used to see a teaching Scott it's now a listening Scott with as I can see a lot of respect to your agent... Nice!
I'd go with 3 collums rather than 4. too busy for me but it's all subjective isn't it. Great work I'd love to see more decor work like the chair that caught my eye. it's interesting to see you communicating with someone on camera. brings out your more sensitive side. don't take that the wrong way 😂
I'm not reacting to the content of your photos but rather to its layout: If you'd like to make the photos on your overview page more appealing I would suggest to mix all of your landscape photos more evenly throughout your whole page, and never have two landscape photos on top of each other. I think you can slim down your overview page to contain two thirds of the work you currently have. Bonus points if you can get the images on the bottom of the page to line up better and get rid of all that white space. Cheers!
I really liked the pictures which move but not 2 in the same view. For example the can on the left hand side and the purple cocktail next to it. Just made me want to turn the page off as it was sensory overload! Was nice to see you at the photography show last week sorry didn’t have time to stop and say hi but you were engaged with folk on stands ❤
I enjoy your style, insight and thought process. Keep the great work going and fingers crossed on some more big shots. Feedback on audio: 1. Mics on the inner side, so if you look to your guest your closer to the microphone 2. lipsync issue when on browser with small video at the left bottom
the thing you don't say enough in your video when you critique others is that you do get a lot of critique and you do accept the opinions and use them to boost you up instead of letting them bring you down. product photography is something i think i would like to do and before i saw your videos i didn't see the technicality of how it's made and i think i would love troubleshooting all day long until i get the result i want. nice work
Would love to know what Wordpress these or gallery plugin you’re using? I’ve had quite a few issues with my these especially on mobile and even on desktop with a recent update moving around my images
Intellectual property (IPr)? In commercial creative work this is defined by contract. In my country, if not agreed by contract, then the IPr is with the party that pays. If the commercial client hired an art director, the art director may own the majority. Owning IPr aside, the right to publish may not be with the photographer. And in commercial assignments, the photographer, vendors in general, may not have the right to publish the name of a client as "brands I worked for/with" as a way to give status to your business rather than the client's They may not want to see their product next to another brand's. Etc.. These are the kind of details that would lead to a talking head video without illustrating images.
The elephant in the room is, "are my style and palette contemporary and attractive enough?" Which is preceded by the question, do I want to do "me" as in art, or do I want commercial success? The latter is not mutually exclusive ("or" is not exclusive). In "art" (history) we see e.g. painters changing their "palette" and/or "style" being changed after a phase in one. Look at Picasso's work in chronological order. The phases are very different in style and within phases there may be a palette change. Having grown up with art teacher parents, Picasso could paint/draw in a photographically correct style already at a very young age. Photographically correct, also called "after nature", was the highest level of art since Greek/Hellenist antiquity (so 2,500..3,000 years before present). When photography spread through the world, such an "after nature" ambition became feasible with the click of a button on a box and a chemical process. "Art" needed to reinvent itself. The connecting theme between the phases in the case of Picasso was that he was on a quest to become able to paint like a child. He felt he had skipped that phase in his life with his father and mother. Maybe he accomplished that with his gouache paintings after WW2. Naturalist young adult phase, vivid potentially exuberant caricatures, cubist variants, gouaches (vivid and almost abstract figurative that is painted fast in coarse brush strokes). Your client's art director at some point may want a different look and feel. How do you go about that?
When they want a different look and feel they use a different photographer. Unless its a non important job, then they use the person they like the most.
Hey Scott, some advice from someone who's built websites for high performance: try looking at your site on a slower PC or a lower end mobile phone. All that video and huge images create crazy CPU load and make the website very slow to load and scroll. You don't see it because you're using a top of the line Macbook.
If I were you I’d have the Coca-Cola shot much closer the top. Because to me, that picture shows a wide range of skills along with your artistic insight
Don't reject beautiful shots because they don't conform to your current main style. They may be just what someone is looking for. Variety is not a detriment.
From a consumer of your index-page… it’s not an overview… it’s confusing! If you should improve it, maybe categorize your shots - “food”, “products” etc., or by some non-obvious categorization… “commercials”, “portraits”… so, maybe consider ending up with a 1 row (1 column on a smartphone) layout, where each item in the layout represents one of the categories, and when you scroll over each item, the different images in them appear on-scroll… I think the confusion here is actually simpler… there is no distinction of variety in your work… is it summarized as “products” (the why so many of 1 variant), is it “food”, “products”, and then again… why only 2 variants that literally boils down to 1- product?
… so in other words, if I were a product-photo potential client, I would feel off-put if my products wasn’t food, and or of a physical size which is holdable… what if I were producing cars? Why no shots of fashion… clothes? Questions like this come into mind
This is obviously very brief as theres lots we can't discuss online BUT For a VERY limited time you can book an indepth call with my agent to discuss your work with her via zoom tinhouse-studio.com/product/portfolio-review-with-karen-my-agent/
Thank y'all SO MUCH for offering this! It will be a great help I'm sure!
I know I don't have the level to have my portfolio validated by an agent yet. But if you can do this regularly, I definitely will come back to get mine reviewed!
I didn't realize there are so many people to work with when selling photos. This is really an inside peek into the world of commercial photography.
Great insights. I love the interactions with your agent. It’s funny to see the master being so humble with the all-knowing agent :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Those photos are stunning! I like that huge cheeseburger and tall multi layered sandwich shots!
Loads more of this content is great, I shoot live stuff for the most part but I really like seeing how other pasts of the industry work out and you have pushed out so much good knowledge. Love it.
Whilst I don't personally operate in the realm of product and high end food photography, this was an insightful conversation. I'm looking at redoing my website so I'll definitely be thinking about some of the things you mention :)
Finally, I get to see your work! It’s fantastic, unique and every piece can stand by itself as an artwork. My favorite one is the still life with the pomegranate.
The overall look of the portfolio is commercially, but I think that’s the whole idea for what you do. I imagine that many of the shot setups are painstakingly and meticulously done. Most excellent job❤
This was insightful. thank you to you both
Good to see a complete other Scott.... bit shy even. Where you used to see a teaching Scott it's now a listening Scott with as I can see a lot of respect to your agent... Nice!
Glad you enjoyed it
another incredble vid helping out photographers! so great!!
The bottle with water reflections is my favourite,great lighting and layout. I can see why you are professional.
I'd go with 3 collums rather than 4. too busy for me but it's all subjective isn't it. Great work
I'd love to see more decor work like the chair that caught my eye.
it's interesting to see you communicating with someone on camera. brings out your more sensitive side. don't take that the wrong way 😂
It's responsive.
Fascinating and so so so helpful. Thank you for this!
I'm not reacting to the content of your photos but rather to its layout: If you'd like to make the photos on your overview page more appealing I would suggest to mix all of your landscape photos more evenly throughout your whole page, and never have two landscape photos on top of each other.
I think you can slim down your overview page to contain two thirds of the work you currently have.
Bonus points if you can get the images on the bottom of the page to line up better and get rid of all that white space. Cheers!
This is invaluable information, thank you both for making the industry a little less opaque.
Thanks for asking the qns i asked scott! alot of value here :)
I really liked the pictures which move but not 2 in the same view. For example the can on the left hand side and the purple cocktail next to it. Just made me want to turn the page off as it was sensory overload! Was nice to see you at the photography show last week sorry didn’t have time to stop and say hi but you were engaged with folk on stands ❤
I enjoy your style, insight and thought process. Keep the great work going and fingers crossed on some more big shots.
Feedback on audio:
1. Mics on the inner side, so if you look to your guest your closer to the microphone
2. lipsync issue when on browser with small video at the left bottom
the thing you don't say enough in your video when you critique others is that you do get a lot of critique and you do accept the opinions and use them to boost you up instead of letting them bring you down. product photography is something i think i would like to do and before i saw your videos i didn't see the technicality of how it's made and i think i would love troubleshooting all day long until i get the result i want. nice work
Oh, I use to be at Agent At Large as well! Karen is so lovely to work with. Hope it’s all going well ✌️
Was great to work with you and Karen last year. She's great.
Saw you at the photo show but didn't want to interrupt your shopping to say hi but I saw lots of people beaming when they spotted you
- “studio burns down” when I worked as an in house photographer for a fashion company… their cheap softbox set fire from the flash 😂
Would love to know what Wordpress these or gallery plugin you’re using? I’ve had quite a few issues with my these especially on mobile and even on desktop with a recent update moving around my images
Business Scott is so calm!
Haha, this is mostly how I am. I’m very introverted
I would like to see a photo or a couple of them that you really love and explain why they are not on this portfolio.
Intellectual property (IPr)? In commercial creative work this is defined by contract. In my country, if not agreed by contract, then the IPr is with the party that pays. If the commercial client hired an art director, the art director may own the majority.
Owning IPr aside, the right to publish may not be with the photographer.
And in commercial assignments, the photographer, vendors in general, may not have the right to publish the name of a client as "brands I worked for/with" as a way to give status to your business rather than the client's
They may not want to see their product next to another brand's.
Etc..
These are the kind of details that would lead to a talking head video without illustrating images.
Very interesting video. Loved the Spam Lolly. Have you done a 'Jarrow Dummy' = half child's dummy half saveloy 😮
Really enjoyed this great stuff.
I think the Christmas image could just be used for socials at that time of year?
I would remove the shoes from the top of the page - so many great images on your overview page
6:07 don't know if the audio is linked up with the video probably
Noticed it, too. Specifically, I saw it at 10:11 and thought "How does he laugh like that? Ohhhhhh wait"
@@SydneyJones-zh7yq glad wasn't the only one, there was few times there were few mistakes, not just this one but one other mistake as well
The ominous background music the whole time is hilarious.
The elephant in the room is, "are my style and palette contemporary and attractive enough?" Which is preceded by the question, do I want to do "me" as in art, or do I want commercial success? The latter is not mutually exclusive ("or" is not exclusive).
In "art" (history) we see e.g. painters changing their "palette" and/or "style" being changed after a phase in one.
Look at Picasso's work in chronological order. The phases are very different in style and within phases there may be a palette change.
Having grown up with art teacher parents, Picasso could paint/draw in a photographically correct style already at a very young age. Photographically correct, also called "after nature", was the highest level of art since Greek/Hellenist antiquity (so 2,500..3,000 years before present).
When photography spread through the world, such an "after nature" ambition became feasible with the click of a button on a box and a chemical process.
"Art" needed to reinvent itself.
The connecting theme between the phases in the case of Picasso was that he was on a quest to become able to paint like a child. He felt he had skipped that phase in his life with his father and mother.
Maybe he accomplished that with his gouache paintings after WW2.
Naturalist young adult phase, vivid potentially exuberant caricatures, cubist variants, gouaches (vivid and almost abstract figurative that is painted fast in coarse brush strokes).
Your client's art director at some point may want a different look and feel.
How do you go about that?
When they want a different look and feel they use a different photographer. Unless its a non important job, then they use the person they like the most.
8:57 don't know if that is a mistake having both of you in big and in the small screen at the bottom, I noticed it few seconds ago it happened then
Can you get Karen back to do a review of our websites with you? Be really interesting to get feedback from you both.
nice photos, but where are the photos of tin houses?, as that is the name, so where are they.
Hey Scott, some advice from someone who's built websites for high performance: try looking at your site on a slower PC or a lower end mobile phone. All that video and huge images create crazy CPU load and make the website very slow to load and scroll. You don't see it because you're using a top of the line Macbook.
I really appreciate this video. I’d say that the “blurry coke bottle” doesn’t help the overview page
If I were you I’d have the Coca-Cola shot much closer the top. Because to me, that picture shows a wide range of skills along with your artistic insight
I wouldn't have the sneakers up top with all that food.
They evoke a musky odor that is unappetizing.
Don't reject beautiful shots because they don't conform to your current main style.
They may be just what someone is looking for.
Variety is not a detriment.
Karen is worth her weight in gold!
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From a consumer of your index-page… it’s not an overview… it’s confusing! If you should improve it, maybe categorize your shots - “food”, “products” etc., or by some non-obvious categorization… “commercials”, “portraits”… so, maybe consider ending up with a 1 row (1 column on a smartphone) layout, where each item in the layout represents one of the categories, and when you scroll over each item, the different images in them appear on-scroll… I think the confusion here is actually simpler… there is no distinction of variety in your work… is it summarized as “products” (the why so many of 1 variant), is it “food”, “products”, and then again… why only 2 variants that literally boils down to 1- product?
… so in other words, if I were a product-photo potential client, I would feel off-put if my products wasn’t food, and or of a physical size which is holdable… what if I were producing cars? Why no shots of fashion… clothes? Questions like this come into mind
Great photography. Terrible diet.
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