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.
I live in a small town too, and if your market is there, its tough. My commercial work doesn't really match what i would make if i was doing completely independent art, but i can at least affect my commercial portfolio so it starts to bring in more work i'm excited about. Good luck on the journey!
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.
Thanks for your feedback. Being compared to a magnum video is a high compliment! Part of this is advice, but also a bit of catharsis, and nostalgia maybe a bit too. Maybe a tinge of regret for not maintaining a printed portfolio these days
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
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!
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. 😂
I remember almost failing art class in high school because my painting's accompanying essay wasn't that good... at least know that noone's ever asked me where i went to college outside of small talk during interviews. The portfolio wins every time...
@@jessesenko That's the challenge isn't it? The are many times I'm still in "the gap" as described by Ira Glass. But seriously, thanks for the reminder. I really do need to redo my site and reel.
Ron Swanson is on RUclips and I’m here for it
Hey, what's up!
@@CristianMercadoYT yo dude, you came to the right channel. Jesse is the real deal
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.
I live in a small town too, and if your market is there, its tough. My commercial work doesn't really match what i would make if i was doing completely independent art, but i can at least affect my commercial portfolio so it starts to bring in more work i'm excited about. Good luck on the journey!
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.
Thanks for your feedback. Being compared to a magnum video is a high compliment! Part of this is advice, but also a bit of catharsis, and nostalgia maybe a bit too. Maybe a tinge of regret for not maintaining a printed portfolio these days
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
Building your website, or more broadly, your portfolio, is such an important, personal creative exercise.
@@jessesenko it is! Maybe that's why it's so difficult to do
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!
Thanks Kenny! gotta make more stuff like that.
Yes, you do!@@jessesenko
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. 😂
I remember almost failing art class in high school because my painting's accompanying essay wasn't that good... at least know that noone's ever asked me where i went to college outside of small talk during interviews. The portfolio wins every time...
Such great advice!!! Thank you.
Damn. Just discovered you and your work. Your portraits as so so good.
Thank you!
A friend of mine just redid his site. And now this. I can take a hint. Fine. I’ll redo my ancient web site.
Chris, i just want you to know exactly who you are creatively... or who you want to be.... or, worst-case, who you want to pretend to be!
@@jessesenko That's the challenge isn't it? The are many times I'm still in "the gap" as described by Ira Glass. But seriously, thanks for the reminder. I really do need to redo my site and reel.
great editing and filming!
Thank you!
That is good advice and an interesting video.
Thanks Gary!
@@jessesenkoI think having a website for an online portfolio is very important to have these days.