- Image selecion is he mos criical par of porfolio developmen. Begin wih your bes of he bes images from wihin a heme – & from hese….
a. Firs, reamen choose your lead image. Sar srong – 1s impressions
b. Nex, shop choose your final image. End srong – One o remember you by
c. Then, add your Mus-Have images (hose you can’ live wihou)
d. Show versailiy (differen conen, lenses, perspecive, visual design)
e. Mainain a good mix hroughou o hold he er’s ineres
f. “Hide” weaes images in middle & don’ group weaes all ogeher
g. Aferwards (le i res a while) remove redundan images
h. Remove anyhing he leas bi marginal
i. Ge feedbac
(Above based on Phoo Porfolio Success by John Kaplan)
- A porfolio should have a hemaic focus (excep maybe phoojournalism)
- The aris’s saemen describes he heme / echnique (and is no he aris’s bio)
- Image selecion is much easier once you’ve wrien an aris’s saemen
- A good porfolio size is 10-20 images
- Consisency among porfolio images is imporan.
a. Consisen wih he chosen heme
b. Consisen in qualiy – only he bes of your bes of he bes
c. Consisen in syle – don’ mix B&W wih color, for example
d. Consisen in scale – balance numbers if scale varies from wide o macro
e. Remember – he porfolio is only as srong as is weaes image
- Redundan image example – sunrise reflecion heme -The 1s or 2nd should be deleed; hey are basically he same visual design and hus he same image
- Self-criicism is difficul; ge advice from ohers. If a majoriy recommends removing an image you can’ live wihou, you probably should remove i.
- If you have o explain/jusify an image (even o yourself), i doesn’ belong.
- Image is imporan. Avoid “jarring” segues.
- Avoid maing he er roae pages. If all prins are 8×12, as an example, and mos are horizonal, mae vericals 8 inches high (by 5.33 wide).
- Every piece of paper in your porfolio should be he same size.
- Ma hem o he same size (varying he window opening) if your prins are differen sizes.
- maybe a 16×20 ma in he above 8×12 & 5.33×8 example
- Fine ar prins are usually mouned and maed.
- Poenial difficulies
- Being boh versaile & consisen – may conflic wih one anoher.
- Page orienaion & sizing – imagine your prins are pages in a boo.