If you are trying to break into professional photography, there's no better time than now to build your portfolio. How do you book clients if you don't have a portfolio to show? Simple. You create a portfolio. It's actually not too hard to do once you get your creativity flowing. Here are some ideas to get you on your way to an awesome photo portfolio.
Shoot for Free or Trade
If you want to quickly build a portfolio of work that you can use to get paid bookings for, the fastest and easiest way to do this is to shoot for free. Now before all the “never work for free” people chime in, let's just acknowledge that at this point your work probably isn’t at the level where you should be charging anyway. If you don't have a firm grasp on your camera settings, you should not be charging for your work, period. <–Click to Tweet
