Create your online landscape photography portfolio.
Are you ready to show your landscape photos to the rest of the world? Maybe sell fine art prints or downloads, use your site to apply for grants, book work more easily? Take the next step in your career or side hustle with a landscape photography website.
How to create a landscape photography portfolio.
1. Get started.
Without a doubt, getting your photography online will take your career to the next level. There are many options for creating a website. Consider your goals when selecting the right platform for your portfolio. If you plan to sell your art in an online store, you should narrow your search to platforms that include integrated labs and selling tools.
2. Gather your work.
Likely the most time consuming part of the process, gathering and organizing your work will be an important step in creating a landscape portfolio. You’ll want to choose the best 20-30 shots for your homepage series, and then figure out how to organize the remainder of your best images on your site, thematically, by sub-genre, etc.
3. Choose a template.
You have plenty of options to choose from and can always change your mind later; don’t let this step make you feel overwhelmed. Choosing a theme that works for you and your photographs can be a fun part in the process, and even better if they are also optimized for all digital devices and platforms.
4. Personalize your site.
Customize your landscape portfolio website with colors and fonts that work for you. You can even brand your site if you have your own logo, and add your custom domain. Think about the look and feel that resonates for you and will connect you to the landscape photography audience you are aiming for.
5. Integrate your social media.
Keep that conversation going and make it easy for users to invest in you–having a seamless way to call out your social media accounts is an advantage of a landscape portfolio website. This way it’s easier for users to follow you, get a closer look at your work, and be in the know about new work available in your online website store.
6. Consider the business end.
With Zenfolio, you can easily monetize your site through automated workflows. Sell prints, digital downloads, offer a special discount, create photo packages, or allow visitors to book your services with the tools that will help you make money from your landscape photography. You’re worth it.
What to include in a landscape photography portfolio.
Get off to a great start–make a list of what you need to include in your landscape portfolio website so you can get there faster and more successfully.
A curated selection of your work.
You’ll want to show a depth and breadth of your skill-set without overwhelming your portfolio website visitor. Carefully make a selection of 20-30 of your most impressive work and group them on your site so users can navigate through various shoots. With Zenfolio integrations and upload capabilities, this task will be relatively painless!
Ensure compatibility and quality.
Nothing is worse than having your images not display properly on your landscape portfolio website. Ensure you’ve optimized your photographs for the web and utilize our tools to batch size, organize…we can do a lot to ensure this fidgety process benefits your site.
A way to contact you.
You’ll probably have site visitors keen to learn more about your work. So what better way to keep the conversation going than a quick e-mail capture? The modern day exchange of business cards, an online contact form allows users to express interest in staying in touch with you. A great thing to include in your portfolio.
An online store.
What better way to expand your business than to offer ways for website visitors to invest in your work? By including an online store in your landscape portfolio website you’re able to better monetize your photography, whether it is in the form of framed or standard prints, canvas wraps, metal prints, greeting cards, or downloads–take advantage of our powerful selling platform.
Don’t forget your bio.
Your biography will be an important piece to your landscape portfolio website. It gives potential clients a snapshot of your experience and a better idea of who you are as a person. Our tip? Feature a photo of yourself and a stunning landscape in your background. Live into your brand.
Landscape photography portfolio examples.
Get inspired by a stunning collection of real-life examples, showcasing the creativity and distinctive visual aesthetics of landscape photographers.
James Harris is a PPA Master Photographer (M.Photog.) and a Certified Professional Photographer (CPP) based in Colorado. He specializes in Fine Art Landscapes. James started his professional career in photography with an assignment for the National Park Service in Utah, shooting primarily with a Linhof Technika 4×5 view camera. He is very involved with the Professional Photographers of America (PPA), the American Society of Photographers (ASofP), the Professional Photographers of Colorado (PPC), and serves as a board member for the Professional Photographers Guild of Colorado Springs (PPGCS). James also enjoys sharing his passion and inspiring others by teaching photography.
Nicholas Parker is a fine art landscape photographer native to Western Montana. He started shooting landscape photography with the dream of having his work printed in National Geographic Magazine. After achieving this three times, he has also been printed in many magazines and news outlets worldwide, most notably, New York Times, Landscape Photography Magazine, National Geographic Magazine. He’s spent most of the last decade mastering a technique that allow him to capture high quality images with bold color, distinct contrast, and sharp detail, conveying to the viewer that they’re present in the scenes he captures.
Edward Hasler is a London-based photographer specializing in landscapes and cityscapes. Much of his early work was inspired by wandering around London at sunrise and sunset with his camera, but he has also photographed in Cuba, Iceland, and Tuscany. Edward keeps his post-processing to a minimum, preferring to get the look he wants in camera while shooting. To keep his images clear and sharp even in the low-light periods around sunrise and sunset, he utilizes his favorite Gitzo carbon fibre tripod.
Jeff Mullins is a landscape, wildlife, and aerial photographer based in Northeast Tennessee, home to his favorite National Park; The Great Smoky Mountains. An US Army veteran, he began hiking and photographing as a form of therapy; the combination of time in nature, movement, and creating art allow him to celebrate and reconnect physically, mentally, and emotionally. In addition to selling images through his online portfolio website, his work has been featured in local newspapers, and are displayed in several local businesses. Jeff hopes that work inspires others to travel, explore, and experience their own adventures.
Ernest J. Schweit is a fine art landscape photographer based in Illinois. Each image he creates is an attempt to communicate his experience and vision of the photographed scene. Like a painter wielding a bush or a pallet knife, Ernest plays with colors, shapes, and textures to mold them into a representation of his mental image when clicking the shutter. A former photography teacher and commercial photographer, he is most satisfied by a day spent with his camera in hand chasing the perfect light, a foggy morning, or the tail end of a storm.
Aaron Liang is a San Francisco, CA based landscape photographer. An open water swimmer, he especially enjoys sharing the beauty of ocean sunset and lake views he experiences. Aaron is a proud dog-dad to a Samoyed girl and occasionally incorporates her into his work.
Why build your portfolio with Zenfolio?
Templates you want to use.
Get started seamlessly by choosing from a variety of templates or let us suggest ones for you based on your photographing style. It’s that simple. Our templates are tested and true, and will help put your creative product front and center for your viewer.
Time spent vs time saved.
With our scheduling and booking system, e-commerce options, marketing, and photo upload tools, we’ve built ways to give you more of your time back. This way you can spend it shooting, editing, building professional relationships, maybe even just taking more time to recharge and sleep!
Search engine optimization.
Our SEO features will help you chart or stay on course to show, share, and sell more of your photography. Utilizing our image title, alt text, and keyword customizations with relevant text helps your portfolio website appear higher in search results. From our social media integration, user-friendly blog creation, and the ability to add content blocks with relevant text and locations, we have you covered.
Easy ways to communicate with visitors and clients.
We make it easy for you to stay in touch with past art buyers, as well as build and manage your client relationships. Utilize our contact forms, e-mail templates, in-gallery image favorites and commenting, blog features, and more.
Security for your work.
Your photography deserves to be protected. Zenfolio has been protecting photographers’ work for over 15 years with security and privacy controls. We offer image size display controls, cloud storage, custom watermarks, and options to password-protect select galleries to help your work stay more secure.
Generate more revenue.
You can earn more by utilizing Zenfolio’s robust selling tools. Our powerful and customizable online store allows you to generate money for your photography business via products offered by one of our integrated labs or your own custom, self-fulfilled products. We can even help you set your prices and generate promotional campaigns to increase sales.
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