instagram is not your portfolio 

Ron Swanson is on RU-vid and I’m here for it

Welp, this was the advice I didn’t realize I needed! Thanks for the kick in the pants!

Love your videos man, thank you for making them. I exist in a small town (so small market) and find it hard to resolve the art vs commercial work on my site. Through assisting I was taught my personal style should reflect itself in my paid work, which I find difficult, but I'm learning my site/style can be more than one thing. Anyway, appreciate your thoughts and how you present them.

amazing tips! I started my website portfolio, i'm still not satisfied with how it looks but its a start. Instagram is great to meet people and show to an audience, a website is necessary to sell, it's so much more organized and you can do it however you want

Such great advice!!! Thank you.

This was short, but the style and the advice given really reminded me of those Magnum series. I'm sure I've already heard a lot of the talking points when watching the portfolio section of one of them. Which is meant to be a compliment! You usually have to pay a lot of money for tips that come as much from a place of experience and confidence as yours. Of course this video is shorter, but then again I couldn't think of anything explicitly missing, either. Great work.

This video made me go back and watch Bookworm and Home Position again. I swear, Home Position has the best surprise ending of any short I've seen. Makes me crack up every time!

A friend of mine just redid his site. And now this. I can take a hint. Fine. I’ll redo my ancient web site.

Damn. Just discovered you and your work. Your portraits as so so good.

great editing and filming!

Yup. Need to update my portfolio. Thanks for the reminder. I started in photography back in 2004. I wanted to go to university to study photography. In Ireland college places are heavily based on academic performance and then specialist courses require a portfolio. Its a points based system. I was heart broken when i got full marks in my portfolio but my academic exams were terrible. Max 600 for school exams and 600 for portfolio. The course was 1000 points. So I didn't get in having low exam scores from school. Long story I took alternative routes and ended up studying film in several other institutions. I was only recently thinking about it though. How the lectures awarded people full marks for their portfolios and then their class the following year is full of people who probably did better academicly and maybe did only ok in the portfolio. It's a weird system that needs reviewing. It has changed slightly in the past 20 years. But its still heavily dependent on academic performances not a reflection of the the working industry. In short i missed out on a photography degree because I wasn't great at Maths and German. 😂

That is good advice and an interesting video.