Portfolio Madness
December 11th 2008 08:31
Setting up a Photography Portfolio is not such an easy task. The guidelines I was given were - 5 images with set themes and then 5-10 of the photographers choice. Considering that on a 3 week stint around New Zealand at the start of the year I took in excess of 2000 photos, you can imagine how narrowing this down to 15 shots, over my whole LIFETIME, has been a challenging task!
Then, of course, there is the decision of your own categories. Say, for example, you choose 'Landscape' as one of them. Having travelled to 22 countries you can imagine how easy that task is!
Plus you have to worry about give and take for personal likes and dislikes. Given there are 7 people looking over them, you still have to wonder about your amateur eye versus their professional eye. Are you making a big mistake by using that one with the shot from under the bridge? How about the other one that you can either use in black and white or colour? Which one is best?
Taking a photo is so different to writing in that you have one shot on a 2D piece of paper to convey something that you can describe with a thousand words. The shot has to be more than just a point-at-the-subject-and-click shot. You have to capture the emotion in the shot, you have to allow the viewer a little peek into a world, and just as with writing, you have to give it to them from an angle that allows room for the imagination to explore and delve and conjure up the magic.
None of these made the final cut, but I like them anyway. Now I just have to catch that elusive lightning!
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