Rishi is not a professional photographer,because he always busy with his work,but he loves photography.One fine day he got a call from one of his friends who was dare to hire Rishi for a photo shoot but,before making an agreement they wanted to see some of his work.
Then Rishi captured some stunning photographs over many years,but they are not sorted in a arranged manner that can be shared easily with a client.His photographs can be found all over the social web- from Facebook to Instagram to Flickr- But,for lack of time and technical know-how, he never considered building a portfolio website to showcase his work.
Then Rishi captured some stunning photographs over many years,but they are not sorted in a arranged manner that can be shared easily with a client.His photographs can be found all over the social web- from Facebook to Instagram to Flickr- But,for lack of time and technical know-how, he never considered building a portfolio website to showcase his work.
How to make a Photography website
There are WYSIWYG website building tools, Square space and WordPress for example, that make it extremely easy for you to build beautiful photography websites but the little downside with these tools is that you’ve manually update them every few weeks or months.
Siftr is a new web app that is trying to tackle the same problem but with a “build it, forget it” approach. The app, created by ex-Adobe employees, monitors your Instagram and other social networks, and automatically makes a portfolio website by pulling your ‘best’ photographs. Unlike other website builders that require you to manually upload photographs, Siftr syncs pictures from your social accounts, where you are actively posting pictures anyway, and puts them in your portfolio website.
Here’s a sample photography website that Siftr created using my Instagram page. It created the website and curated the photos automatically and the total time I spent in the entire exercise is 0 minutes. The website is responsive and looks great on a mobile too. Here are better examples.
Smart Categories, like Google Photos
You may be wondering why would anyone need such a tool when similar functionality can be emulated in WordPress using services like IFTTT. For instance, you can have an IFTTT recipe that will automatically cross-post your pictures to WordPress as soon you put them on Facebook or Flickr.
Well, there’s more to Siftr than just syncing your photos from social networks. The tool uses object recognition techniques to automatically classify your photos in categories. For instance, there are categories like “Nature”, “Buildings”, “People”, etc. and the photos are tagged automatically based on the pixels. So if a prospective client is only interested in the landscape photographs, you can directly point him to the relevant tag.
Siftr offers a host of layout templates and you also have the option to remove pictures that you do not wish to show in your portfolio website. At the time of writing this, Siftr can import your photos from Instagram, Flickr and Facebook but there’re adding support for 500px too, all the popular destinations where you’re more likely to upload photographs.
Siftr.co is completely free at though some of the upcoming features, like custom domains, templates, etc. could only be available to premium users.
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