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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Comment by Manda Spring
Comment by Tracy
Movies and Life
Tracy
Comment by Lilla
From The Home Front
Enviro Warrior
Dream Herald
Esoteric Bookshop
NONE of these MADE IT??!!??!**&^^!
Gosh I cant wait to see what did and would ask that you post them too one day, pleeze.
*shaking head incredibly* that building spire~thingo ... looks like it is moving!
AMAZING, simply Amazing Ash, you will go far, well chosen.
Lilla ...
Comment by Ash
Flashes of memories
ahhh I love to travel and that`s where most of my pictures come from - although you would be surprised what you can photograph from your own backyard... there is a whole world in there that many people don`t take advantage of
Ash
Comment by Ash
Flashes of memories
Thanks... I`m really excited about it. We should be hearing soon... so fingers crossed! I`m a bit annoyed that i didn`t have as much time to work on my folio as iw ould have liked but hey... c`est la vie!!!!
Ash
Comment by Ash
Flashes of memories
Well after much deliberation and many hours spent at the printers the Bee one, the tyre one and the building one made it in... but the others were shafted
I love life behind the lens... I should have done it a long time ago... but hey, sometimes we don`t have the encouragement we need! That`s something good to come from Orble (seeing as there seems to be a lot of negativity out there from it!)
Ash
Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
last one too dark, but, is that a comet trail in the sky?
come back Ash,
and start posting again lassie!!!
cheers
fog
Comment by Sim1
Fish on Film
The Lives and Souls of Bella-Mae