How should I categorize my photography?

[fuzzybabybunny]

I'm trying to figure out the categories of photography that I want in my website: http://www.victorlinphoto.com

Currently there's Landscape, Cityscapes, and Real Estate, but this isn't going to work going forward.

The stuff that I take pictures of include:

Animals (zoo/wildlife)
Insects (macro)
Flowers
Product
Landscapes
Cityscapes
Real Estate

Possible areas of expansion:
Travel
Clubs
Weddings
Engagement

I don't want the categories to get too wide, but also not too deep. Depth of 3 MAX, 2 preferable.

I'm thinking that I want the main categories to be Real Estate and something like Fine Art or Artistic. A third main category could be... uhhh... Couples (need to get more images first before adding this category)?

Real Estate is obviously real estate.

Fine Art is a dumping ground for landscape, animals, product, macro. I'm a little concerned with this because while my shots are nice looking, I'd hardly consider it fine art...

Couples for Weddings and Engagements.

Too messy?

 

[corkyg]

Interesting concept. On the whole, very subjective. You could include animals, insects, flowers, trees, etc. under Flora & Fauna or Nature. Couples of whatevers could simply be People

 

[ghostman]

From the look of your current website, this is mean to be client-facing. Not sure if you follow Zack Arias blog. He has a website/photo video critique every so often. He often criticizes websites for being unfocused on their goal (ie. Are you a real estate photographer or are you a wedding photographer? Do bug close-ups belong on the same website as photos of million-dollar pools?). I'd imagine that he'd suggest you split your business photos from your personal photos onto different websites entirely.

http://www.zarias.com/

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: ghostman
From the look of your current website, this is mean to be client-facing. Not sure if you follow Zack Arias blog. He has a website/photo video critique every so often. He often criticizes websites for being unfocused on their goal (ie. Are you a real estate photographer or are you a wedding photographer? Do bug close-ups belong on the same website as photos of million-dollar pools?). I'd imagine that he'd suggest you split your business photos from your personal photos onto different websites entirely.

http://www.zarias.com/

I gandered at the critiques for about three hours. I've got some design flaws that I really gotta work out. And my photography sucks. Other than that everything's peachy.

EDIT: I've come to the conclusion that my website design sucks as well.

I want something minimalistic and clean:

http://jasonqtran.com/

http://www.desfocado.com/

http://portfolio.debsphotographs.com/

http://www.drewgardner.co.uk/

http://www.jeffcreech.com/

Damn it!

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
I gandered at the critiques for about three hours. I've got some design flaws that I really gotta work out. And my photography sucks. Other than that everything's peachy.

Your photography does not suck, FBB!

Just because it's not the "best of the best" does not mean it sucks!

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
I gandered at the critiques for about three hours. I've got some design flaws that I really gotta work out. And my photography sucks. Other than that everything's peachy.

Your photography does not suck, FBB!

Just because it's not the "best of the best" does not mean it sucks!

Well, it's not the best of the best, but I honestly don't think it's good enough to compete either when it comes to getting money and making a job out of it. And that sucks.

BTW, redid the website, hopefully making it look more minimalistic and clean: http://www.victorlinphoto.com/index.html