Seperate Personal Work Fine Art site?

[bhursey]

So I watched the creative live seminar with Zack Arias he brought up a good point of keeping personal work and professional work separate.

My personal work includes, architecture, landscape, film, city scape photography. My Professional Work includes Portraiture, family photography, children Photography, and weddings.

The point he made is if some one comes to your webpage and sees say a Mix of personal and professional work in your portfolio. They can get confused on what you actually do and be turned away.

So here is what I am thinking. I have my main site Brian Hursey Photography and have my artistic site at either brianhursey.com or like a new domain. The blog will still be covering both but It will keep my personal portfolio and my professional portfolio separate. What do you all think? Who knows I might even sell some fine art prints.

[BigFuzzy]

Originally Posted by bhursey

The point he made is if some one comes to your webpage and sees say a Mix of personal and professional work in your portfolio. They can get confused on what you actually do and be turned away.

That is one piece of advice that I always give to folks creating websites (and one I still haven't fully rectified on mine) is to ONLY put images on there that are directly geared towards what you're selling, nothing less, nothing more. If you're selling yourself as a portrait, wedding and kid photographer, ONLY have those images there. Hit the client fast and hard with a select number of images that say, "THIS is what I do and I'm GREAT at what I do"
End of story. Anything else diminishes your site in my humble opinion. It's exactly why long rambling About Me pages that talk about how you grew up with photography and blah blah "capture moments" blah blah "freezing special events" blah blah should be destroyed. It should be a quick and easy (and witty if possible) way to say "I'm the man for the job" ..
Having said that, I've not seen your about me page, so that comment isn't geared towards you in case you took it that way.. hehe.


EDIT: I just read your about page, it's not that bad.. hehe. A bit cheesey (for me, the king of anti-cheese), but if it's real and you're happy with it, go with it. Just ask yourself, with everything you do, on your professional site, is does the client care and does this help sell me? If not, dump it. If yes, keep it and enhance it if possible. Good luck!

[happyme]

Yes, that is essential if you need to walk straight on one single path. If you merge the 2, your life will only be hell and no fun.