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