Ginger and Ken are happy to announce that Jim Steele, known to NVPS from earlier projects and competitions, will be the reviewer for this club year’s Portfolio Project. James (Jim) Steele is a photographer in the tradition of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. Working primarily in medium and large format, Steele’s “scapes” of land, sea,
Portfolio Project Remember to sign up for this years Portfolio Project. You can do so either by going to the website or by seeing Ken and his laptop at the meetings. To sign-up online use the directions below. Gaining access to the NVPS Portfolio Photo Gallery 1. Get registered as a gallery user by going
Please remember to upload your images to your Portfolio folder and do your final tweaking by the April 30 cut-off. For the final critique on May 14 with Roy Sewell we need a maximum of 15 images plus your artist statement. Next steps include deciding on the format of the final presentation of your
As March draws to a close it’s time to start working on a final tweaking of your on-line portfolio choices. For the critique put a maximum of 15 of your best images plus the artist statement in your folder. In the interest of time for the reviews you can have fewer, just not more. For
If you would like some feedback on the images you have gathered so far for your portfolio, please try and have them loaded to your folders by next Thursday at the latest. That should give Sherwin enough time to look at everything and formulate his comments before the critique on the 29th. Remember that this
The preliminary critique for the Portfolio Project was a rousing success thanks to the insightful commentary of Sherwin Kaplan. His comments gave all of us who have started the project welcome guidance to lead us as we complete our projects for this year. With what we now know from Sherwin, it is time to gather
Portfolio participants, hopefully you have found your inspiration, crafted your artist statement and started gathering images. There aren’t that many opportunities to show and be critiqued on a body of work, so this is an excellent chance to grow as artists and photographers. Participants are strongly encouraged to look at the images other members of
You are no doubt reading this because you are a photographer. So, let me repeat to you a question I was asked last year at a social gathering after I was introduced to another artist. My friend said, “Let me introduce Brooks Jensen. He’s a photographer.” The other artist then asked the most curious question:
Portfolio Participants Remember to start uploading your images for the initial critique on January 29th with Sherwin Kaplan. He will need a chance to look at everything ahead of time so try and have what you have collected so far in your folder by January 22nd. This is a great opportunity to have some feedback
We are still at the beginning of the portfolio project for this club year and so some concentrated reflection on what you want your portfolio to be is very much in order. To that end we recommend using the following two links to get your thoughts flowing: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/themes.shtml http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/portfolio-8.shtml As you will be able to