Photography Portfolio Using Tumblr

[ScottWebb]

Hey Guys and Girls,

I have been considering the use of tumblr for my photography portfolio.

I wondered what you all think of that?

Tumblr is an outstanding community and makes it DEAD SIMPLE to get great stuff linked and re-blogged. This is a wildly viral way to spread and I think it can become way bigger than it on just another page of your website.

It feels like it would be a great place to display and increase the chances of people seeing your work.

With Tumblr you can use your own domain - which could be a simple subdomain like portfolio.yoursite.com. It can basically look like it's not even tumblr but still benefit from the great community.

I wondered if anyone has been doing this or decided against it.

What do you think?

[ScottWebb]

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Any thoughts on this? Is it considered unprofessional to you?

there must be some reaction? What does your gut say after reading it?

[summerbl4ck]

I'll jump in here just to say that I don't quite get tumblr. I have a friend who started a tumblr blog recently and all she does is post things from other blogs (I guess that's the community aspect?) which has been a bit boring honestly. It looks like it could be an option for blogging--or micro-blogging, but what does that mean really? just blogging shorter?--but the photography sites that I have seen via tumblr haven't been great. I would think that if you're looking to post your portfolio that you should invest in a full website. Blogging might be part of it but that you'd want more functionality too. My two cents...

[junglebear]

From what I've seen, Tumblr sucks because it uses Disqus for commenting, which is really irritating as you have to go through extra pages and clicks to post your comment.
At the end of the day, it's just another blogging service, nothing revolutionary.

[Gaurav Prabhu]

Simply open up a blog on wordpress or blogger which would be much better. Seriously speaking a get some websapce alongwith a domain & install wordpress, a suitable photoblog theme 7 you're ready to go.

[ScottWebb]

I have a full blog website set up at nuwomb.com - but for a portfolio I like the idea of tumblr.

Yea the comments are disqus right now but it may change sometime. Who knows.

What I'm looking at is the community aspect of twitter. the act of re-blogging and favoriting plus every tuesday you can recommend another tumblr. You could have your site or portfolio sitting at the top of the directory for photography and it could be seen my a massive number of people.

I can install wordpress with my eyes closed in 35 seconds, so the ease of tumblr is not the big thing for me. Tumblr is just plain simple.

I was thinking more of a subdomain. they do have some fantastic portfolio premium themes now to that are not very expensive.

I am leaning to try it because it does cause some resistance in me. Anytime I'm faced with a feeling that's like hmm that seems kinda iffy and might not be a good idea, I think I should try it and see what happens.

These are the 3 themes for portfolios:

there is no such thing as an affiliate link on tumblr as far as I know lol. This is pure love

Tumfolio Theme
Simplefolio
Photofolio

I plan on trying subdomains or nuwomb.com. So it does become a part of an overall photography website and blog.

Tumblr doesn't have to be about short blog posts. I've seen insanely long written content posts. There are massive names moving over to tumblr because of the sharing community aspect, the possible reach of your photo / graphic / writing / art. The recommendation on tuesdays could be pretty great for exposure too.

It's a bit diff and I know this is why a lot of people are iffy. My friend thinks that he would never want a possible client to find him in google and be sent to a tumblr page. I think it might just be a values thing. I like certain things about tumblr and I align with them.

[Gaurav Prabhu]

Does Tumblr keep your copyrights safe i.e. with you? I don't know, maybe you should think on this to avoid FB like situation. The UL bandwidth & storage is a definite plus of Tumblr if someone doesn't has a Flickr PRO account.