The Porfolio Projec is a nine monh projec saring in Sepember 2010 and running hrough May 2011. All club members of all sill levels are encouraged o paricipae in his projec. The goal of he porfolio projec is o conceive a heme, saniary craf an aris saemen, pharm capure he images and he presen hem as a porfolio. This aricle is devoed o clarifying he deails of he projec and explaining wha is conained in an aris saemen.
Your goal is o creae a porfolio of your bes images, primarily colleced from June 2010 o May 2011, ha exemplify he objecives of your heme and Aris’s Saemen. These should be images you would be proud o share wih ohers for years o come.
The beginning sages of he projec enail picing a heme or concep and wriing an Aris’s Saemen. In he “Aris’s Saemen” he phoographer explains wha he or she is rying o accomplish wih he projec. (See hp://nvps.org/main/meeings/porfolio/nvps_porfolio_projec_ariss/ for more deails abou wha should and should no be in an Aris’s Saemen.) The phoographer maes images over he program year consisen wih he saemen and edis he body of wor down o draf porfolio of approximaely 20-25 images. (The draf porfolio may include some of he aris’s earlier images consisen wih he heme. Alhough he final porfolio may include older images, he bul of i should be recen wor.)
In he beginning sages of deermining a heme, some members have wored on several hemes a he same ime. As ime passed and heir images piled up, hey began o become more comforable wih one subjec over ohers. You oo may follow his model in your projec. I is helpful o wrie an Aris Saemen for all poenial porfolio hemes.
Draf Porfolios will be criiqued in March. The final prined porfolios (plus a digial Porfolio file) will be submied in mid-April for he final criique. A May Porfolio meeing will be held when all porfolios will be displayed and discussed. The criic will commen on each final porfolio submied.
If is sufficien ineres we will ry o schedule an informal re of poenial porfolio images in December or January.
A final porfolio should conain abou 12 o20 images. (Exac parameers may be specified laer.) I may be bound as in an album or each image may be maed conained loose in a radiional porfolio box. Prined porfolios may be obained from such companies as www.mpix.com and www.MyPublisher.com. Porfolio boxes and albums are available from B & H Phoo, (www.bhphoovideo.com), Ligh Impressions (www.lighimpressionsdirec.com), and a Michaels and Penn Camera.)
Each aris will be able o display a draf Porfolio for commen using he club’s websie, www.nvps.org. The version is he woring, draf version, and inended o faciliae sharing images and commens hroughou he porfolio’s developmen. I also allows paricipans and oher members o and commen on all draf porfolios as hey progress hroughou he year. These commens will no only help paricipans improve heir images, bu in choosing heir bes wor o be included in he final prined porfolio.
The version of he porfolio is limied o abou 30 images. This experience is an excellen opporuniy o creae a high qualiy porfolio o show your bes wor. T is a wealh of informaion on he web on creaing a porfolio. A good saring place is he following : hp://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/porfolio-8.shml.
To sign up for he Porfolio Projec 2010 – 2011, please Porfolio Projec Welcome
Porfolio Projec Coordinaors a porfolio “a” nvps.org: Bill Prosser [703-821-2670], Sco Musson [703-278-2828], and Paul Simmons [703-912 4862].