Your images shown large, online, without a monthly plan.

What to tell your assistant for a photography site

Give your assistant a considered selection of photographs and explain which commissions you want the site to represent. Include instructions about image order and cropping, so the page respects how you want the work seen.

• •Your photographic specialities and intended clients, distinguishing personal projects from the commissioned work you want to attract
• •Selected images grouped into series, with an opening image, viewing order and any crops you want to avoid
• •Series titles, locations, dates and captions, plus credits and confirmation that the images can be shown publicly
• •The sessions or commissions you offer, what delivery includes and the pricing information you choose to publish
• •Your base, travel area, studio access if relevant and the practical details clients need before a shoot
• •Your biography and enquiry details, including what a client should tell you about the date, location and intended use

Show public galleries here, link to proofing and sales services

Your static site presents public galleries, services and a contact form for shoot enquiries. SayLive sends messages to your space and email inbox. Private client galleries with accounts, image selection stored in a database and print checkout belong at specialist services linked from the site. The public portfolio does not handle visitor accounts, databases or payments, so keep those links clearly labelled.

To introduce a new series, tell your assistant in one sentence: "Replace the opening gallery with these photographs in this order, keeping their captions." Review the images, then request a new publication. The site includes 150 publications, and you can restore a previous version if you prefer the earlier selection.

You can connect your own domain once the site is paid. For the words beside the photographs, use the copy guide to describe your approach and sessions in language you would use with a client.