Nature photography portfolio examples

Ideas

Nature photography portfolio ideas worth stealing

Seven things that hold up across every nature photography portfolio worth the scroll.

• 1

  Show fewer pieces than you want to

  An editor who sees twenty strong frames remembers you. One who sees eighty remembers nothing. Cut until it hurts, then cut two more.

• 2

  Lead with one strong image, not a menu

  The first screen decides whether there is a second. Give it one photograph at full width and let the navigation wait its turn.

• 3

  Put contact one click from everywhere

  Commissions are lost to friction more often than to taste. A contact link that follows the visitor down the page costs nothing and closes that gap.

• 4

  Own the domain

  A portfolio sitting on someone else's subdomain reads as a trial. Your own name in the address bar is the cheapest credibility available.

• 5

  Split the galleries by subject, not by trip

  Birds, landscapes, macro, each in its own gallery. Nobody looking for your work is searching for Iceland 2023, and a trip-based structure hides your best frames inside your worst weeks.

• 6

  Open each gallery with the frame you would print a metre wide

  Not the one you shot most recently. Chronology is a filing system, not a viewing order, and a homepage sorted by date ages badly.

• 7

  Give every image room

  A dense grid suits a wedding set. A 3:1 panorama needs a single-column scroll and nothing sitting next to it.