? for those who photography sports and portaits...

MRudland

Question : for those who shoot sports as well as say portraits. How do you organize your website? I shoot both the normal human photography as well as equine sports, some high school sports. I'm needing a way to make my website easier to navigate and separate the sports from the normal human stuff. Would love to see your websites and hear your thoughts.

Photogbiker

One thought is to not mix them, create a totally different website and even company name. Maybe your name 'Rudland' is in your current wedding/portrait business, then you create a different site for "MR Sports Photography". I think customers for one or the other service would think you're really a pro who concentrates on their specific subject when they see a site dedicated to it. Would you hire the best Sports Illustrated photographer to shoot your wedding?

Just an idea to toss out there.....

tartan snow

I do horse racing and other equine stuff as well as soccer, rugby and landscapes. I just have them in different folders

jmphotocraft

Photogbiker makes a good point and if I was full time I would probably do that. But I'm not, so I just have my one SmugMug pro site. SmugMug makes organization a snap, highly recommended. www.jmphotocraft.com

RikM

That's a nice clean looking site Jack.

I do it the same way and organise into separate galleries. I shoot dog agility and acrobatic gymnastics as well as (if I am honest) anything I feel like. Since I shoot for the clubs rather than just myself, I put the event shots in passworded private galleries. I am in the process of getting more releases signed, so I can copy some of the best ones to my front page 'portfolio' galleries.

There's a link in my sig. if you're interested.

JimKarczewski

My top levels are:

Events
Sports
Portrait
Clients
Landscapes


In sports, for example I have everything separated by season. So 2011-12, 2012-13, 2014-14, ...

Under that is individual sports like Basketball

then below that is yet another category boys and girls

Yes, it's a lot of navigation but typically when I share on social media I'm posting a direct link, as I am with a portrait or commercial client.

jerryr

Hi - I worked with Tom Snitzer on his customization and organization of his SmugMug site. We took one SmugMug site and created four themes - Nature/Travel, Sports, Corporate/Organization and Theatrical (http://www.snitzerphotography.com/). So basically separated Sports into its own area and theme.
This also makes it easy for him to send out an unique link : http://www.snitzerphotography.com/Sports
- jerryr

jonh68

I don't think you need to have separate websites especially if you don't make a big amount from it. The simplest thing to do is just have better organization as others have suggested. Have a sports and portrait section.