Craig Goldsmith

Im struggling with this myself at the moment Craig

Same here. But I’ve been looking at your portfolio, Craig, and I must say it’s a hard choice to pick one. You have excellent pictures!

OK – Hard choice. I would cull this one because you have another similar shot that i think is better.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/innovativevisions/art/32224-1-white-bellied-sea-eagle

Thanks Guys, please keep the suggestions coming. I agree the eagle should go I’m thinking maybe all the birds should, as they haven’t been popular.

Honestly?! I would stick with the landscape and architecture shots – these are fantastic!! Agree re the bird shots and maybe the flower ones too (they don’t really fit with the rest of your portfolio)...

I think you have a few duplicates or nearly identical shots. Pick one of the dupes and let the other go.

Others I think are weak Efiel tower and statues.
Louvre shots, not as good as the rest of your work
Banksia, Down the Path, and Urban Gunk all standard treatments though quite nice shots.

Overall a really nice portfolio. I find it hard to cull my own stuff

And the two self abstract portraits. Not sure if they should be there.

By the way I love most of your photos.

The first one was the fire picture. It didn’t seem to show on the first comment above.

Hi just a suggestion on how to group your work together.
Go to your “my bubble” then click on art in the menu and it should come up with all your work and little arrows at the sides of every artwork so you can to move them up or down into groups.
I als name mine in the tags for instance “Spaces Below’ 1- 2 – 3 etc. as I sem to work in series of works.
Culling is hard ive tried a few times but keep saying no, i may need it printed for an exhibition a gift or something….......
cheers

I’m not sure I have the qualifications to comment – but there’s a dodgy one with a couple of seats overlooking the water…. haha only kiding. Sorry Craig.

Do your views and comments recieved (or not recieved as the case may be) line up with the ones you have in mind. I know from mine that it’s clear which thumbnails dont or haven’t got the attention of viewers and I expect they will be the first to be culled. Sales as well I guess would be a good indication?

Cant comment on double ups because I’ve got a series of images myself but if the double ups are similiar then that might be the way to go as well.

Good luck, you can always upload an image again down the track as well

I think that should be kidding with two d’s. Bring on the RB spell checker!

I really admire all of your work – although, I personally am not as fond of your “nature” (flowers, animals)shots as the others – I saw mention of removing the abstracts selfs, but I LOVE those, and think they should stay.

Well it’s interesting so far, I’ve had a look and I think I’ll anything with no comments is going to go, anything with perhaps under 10 favourites as well, and see what that leaves me.

Good point raised about duplicates I hadn’t really thought about it, but I do have some very similar images, so I’ll take that into account too.

The flowers aren’t my favourites but I have sold some so I’ve got mixed feelings about those.

The abstract self portraits are on the chopping block but maybe I’ll keep one. As it’s kind of nice to have a bit of myself in my portfolio.

Keep them all….stick it to the man!

I like the self portrait with the face on it, so I say get rid of the other one.

Your idea made me think about this now also. I have been using the sorting for my photographs in the following order:

Sales
Comments
Favorites
Views

I keep all new posts up top for about a week before using the sorting and putting them in where they fall.

This might help determine what to remove. If a photo has no sales, comments, favorites, and only a handfull of views, then it might need to be removed. But then again, what one person doesn’t like, another might, and removing any could cost you a sale.

I think I have some decent shots that no one really views or viewed. I often wonder if because I have 6 pages of photos that that might prevent someone from going through my entire collection. There might be something very nice on page 6 that no one ever looks at. And that is just 6…what if you have 12 or more.

Opinions?

I’m going to be doing this next week. I figure I would get ride of the ones that are not peoples favorits and have no comments or very few comments in comparison to the others. Hope this helps.

Argh! Don’t make me choose!

If I HAD to vote for favourites – I like your Parisian bicycle, and the dreamy quality of your castles. The portraits also have a certain something I like, I think it’s in the composition :)

ha what a brave thing to do.

they’re all good :)

seriously though if you have to get rid of some, probably the close-up flower shots. I’m just not a big fan of flower shots in general.

I recently went through this with my Portfolio- I did it by favourites. Anything with less than 10 favouritings said goodbye to the bubbleverse :)

Adding on to Charles’s list. Have a look at the Gallery.

What’s not there that you have?
What’s there that happens to always get shown on the homepage and gallery popular page (comments is not the only thing factored into the equation apparently.)
What’s something you’d buy from someone else’s port?

Just some thoughts thrown in. :0)

Just another quick note. I constantly check the sorting and move photos up and down as their numbers increase. It can be a lot of work, but I think overall it works.

Thanks for the feedback, please keep it coming.

I’ve resorted everything and well there is more crap in there then I expected. At the moment everything from Christopher Columbus back in my portfolio is at risk of getting the chop. I’m also considering removing all my T-Shirts, so I can have the three rows of images, and thats where all my sales are coming from.

Once I’ve cleaned it up, then I’m going to work on better tags, and having some porfolio sections.

sounds like you’ve got a good plan sorted there.

Craig I love your work and have seen you excelling over a short time. Just a honest opinion let go of the ufo stuff & the birds, the rest is great! Not saying that these weren’t great the others are just better. Good luck my friend and if you have any opinion on my portfolio I would greatly appreciate your opinion.

Hi Craig, Before you cull anything, it may be a better idea to put them into categories first – it might make it easier to then cull from each category, as like images will be grouped together. I think you’ll have a tough job ahead of you, as your images are gorgeous!

hee hee Craig. we’re both on the homepage for being happy spring cleaning bees XD

Maybe will inspire more with that sort of double coverage :)

My advice, get rid of the dupes, every for cool shots like the castle on the lake. A subject needs to either be AMAZING or part of a series to justify duplication.

Mate, this is the hardest question I’ve come across for a long time because all of them show great skills. But here it is. After you have counted the comments on them, then the amount of views on each of them make your choice but don’t take the second last one because that’s the one I like. In other words, It a very personal thing Craig. Sorry can’t help you. You be the judge.

Turns out this is a lot harder then I first thought. I’m going to think about those I’ve place in the chuck out bin (below Mr Columbus) and see what I think in the morning.

It’s a hell of a portfolio Craig. Good luck mate. Sorry, I can’t help you there at all ‘cause I’d say keep it all for now.

ive gotten mine down to the 700’ish mark.. from 1000.. hahaha.. u think u got problems.. :P

Craig,
I noticed that you have some pictures where you added different versions.
Which are:
“White bellied sea eagle”
“UFO”/”CRASHED UFO”
“George Washington”
“Abstract Seating”
“Eilean Donan Castle”

I’d say….just go for one version.

A bit of feed back Craig,
I hid from view a number of images in my portfolio yesterday.
One older image uploaded around 4 months ago that had 53 views and no coments or favrts… so it qualified to be hid I felt… on the spur of moment I decided to reupload it to see what might happen stats wise.
This time round it had 73 views in it’s first day,14 comments and 3 favrts…
One example can’t prove much, but possibly the bigger membership now on redbubble plays a part in this.

Craig, i think they all have a meaning otherwise you would not have put them up.
I say, Leave there, they are all good/great…..Enjoy having your work out there for all to share in your talent….

your best works are definately the architecture ones (in my humble opinion anyway).
This is what I would be working on and doveloping and adding to in your portfolio. Fantastic stuff

This bulletin has inspired me to keep an eye on you :)

Mate!!! What are you talking about- culling your photos! But as a unsentimental guide- use the art function RB have so kindly developed- line your prints up based on view numbers and sale number- cull the underachievers (based also on how long the image has been up for)- see if that does the trick! ;P

As someone else said, ditch the duplicates…I’d leave the rest…why cull?

The cull is to increase the quality of my overal portfolio, trim the dead wood and hopefully leave some room for some new works.

Craig, I love all your architecture and landscapes, but that is just my opinion. The beauty of art is that different things apeal to different people but if you are intent on culling, do as Jonathan suggested and base it on the number of views.

and that was meant to be appeal not apeal!!

Thanks everyone for their feedback here, I’ve decided I’ll have a brief Spring Cleaning Sale and then I’ll remove a lot of my below par work from my porfolio. Check out my sale items in the above link.