The goal of he projec is o help you improve your phoography hrough he creaion of a phoographic porfolio. Creaing a porfolio involves coming up wih a heme, page crafing an aris saemen o define he heme, pilule capuring images ha suppor he aris saemen and assembling he above ino a prined porfolio. We will be providing guidance and feedbac for each sep in he process; such as, assisance in selecing a heme, a criique of your aris saemen, several criiques of your images, and in April your final prined porfolio will be submied for re and commens. Finally, in May all porfolios will be displayed and commened on by he reer. See he enaive schedule below.
For examples of porfolios creaed by club members in he pas, go o he “Phoo Gallery” secion of he clubs websie (hp://nvps.org/gallery/main.php) and selec he “Porfolio Projec” album.
Your goal is o creae a porfolio of your 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.)
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 re. A May Porfolio meeing will be held when all porfolios will be displayed and discussed. The reer will commen on each final porfolio submied. On January 25h, 2011 we will have an NVPS Presenaion on Creaing Porfolios and Samples of Pas Porfolios.
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 and 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 ( hp://www.bhphoovideo.com), Ligh Impressions (hp://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, hp://nvps.org/gallery. 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.
Porfolio Projec Coordinaors a porfolio “a” nvps.org: Bill Prosser [703-821-2670], Sco Musson [703-278-2828], and Paul Simmons [703-912 4862].
Tenaive Schedule for he 2010 – 2011 Porfolio Projec
Noe: all iems are opional, bu are suggesed for a successful Porfolio
Sep – Sign up for he Porfolio Projec
Oc – Nov – Craf your aris saemen
Sep – April – Shoo your images ha suppor your aris saemen
Oc – Nov 2010 – Submi a draf aris saemen
Oc – Nov 2010 – Porfolio Projec Coordinaors commen on aris saemens submied
Nov 2010- Sar uploading your images o he NVPS websie (insrucions forhcoming)
Nov 2010 – Informal criique of porfolio images sars
January 25h, 2011 – Presenaion on Creaing Porfolios and Samples of Pas Porfolios
TBD – Final Criique
April 2011 – Collec porfolios o be judged
May 2011 – Final porfolio presenaion
Wha should you be woring on now?
- Crafing your aris saemen
- Shooing images ha suppor your aris saemen
- Submiing a draf aris saemen o porfolio “a” nvps.org if you would lie feedbac
- Creae a user id a he NVPS phoo gallery if you don’ already have one (hp://nvps.org/gallery/main.php)