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Fenster

Big thank you to Al for suffering my questions on several occasions. I still have four photos to add and text to fill out more on (I'm trying to work on it in quiet moments), but I've put it as it is here. Some photo have watermarks, I need to dig up their master tif files before I use it.

Any and all feedback is welcome.

Fajitas!

What is the company you're applying to?

Or is it just a general portfolio. Should have asked you that a while back. It might be a bit dark overall if you're going for commercial work...unless that's what they're into!

I think the layout is grand, but I wouldn't bother with the technical details - People might be more interested in where the photograph was taken - By blurb, I thought you had meant background info!

Morlar

If I were you I would include at least one infrared.

I think one picture per page is a possibly a bad use of space if your limited in the amount of pages they will accept.

I agree with Al about dropping the exif info - either that or put it in a grey text or maybe move it to the side or something. It seems very prominent where it is especially in that font.

If your using it for jobhunting it might be worthwhile putting together a dedicated non blog, non flickr site too - that way they can inspect them at full resolution whenever they get a chance.

ThOnda

What is the portfolio for? If it should be about everything you can do, it must contain all parts of professional work, like portraits, glamour, nude, prroduct photography, advertisement photography, celebrity, street photography (for news), architecture (interiors, overall views, details), and also mastered techniques in SW (like photoshop), so you should show basic effects daily used in all media you could remember - blur, desaturation, unsharping, posterizing, working with text within your picture (captions for posters...).
As Fajitas! already said, you should aim that portfolio to the person/company, you should attract. Find out their aims and focus on them.

"It is so easy to talk and don't do anything" - ThOnda.

Fenster

It's for Cashman Photgraphy.

I don't want to say too much at this point, but the impression I had at their orientation is that if you know how to use an SLR they're interested in hiring you.

Rojo

I'll echo the sentiments of getting rid of the technical details... but it does show you have a clue about a camera so maybe tone it down? I don't really know! How did you make the pdf?

mikeanywhere

Fenster wrote:

It's for Cashman Photgraphy.

I don't want to say too much at this point, but the impression I had at their orientation is that if you know how to use an SLR they're interested in hiring you.

Let us know how it goes!!

familyguy

Nice one. Maybe a few more people shots?

I think a change of font would do a lot - of course I'm a sucker for typography.
Some quality free fonts here
(Just a few, not one of those free fonts sites with thousands)

Rojo: Document Properties says it was created with NeoOffice, which is a Mac version of OpenOffice

Rojo

familyguy wrote:

Rojo: Document Properties says it was created with NeoOffice, which is a Mac version of OpenOffice

I see... So how would I make a pdf on windows xp?


Thanks, Neil! :P

thebaz

with the amount of weddings in las Vegas, yourself included, you should make a fotune shooting weddings

Fenster

thebaz wrote:

with the amount of weddings in las Vegas, yourself included, you should make a fotune shooting weddings

12 dollars an hour starting, with full benefits and equipment. Cashman pretty much have the wedding market tied up within the city. There's approximately two thouand weddings on July 7 and they're covering all of them, just about.

I was going to stick a page in the back with technical information and I have changed it. The first three "sets" of photos are portraits of Caira and her aunt, then some nightclub photos and then some motorbiking photos. I was going to go for landscape and then infrared then still thereafter.

I'm holding to one full-page portrait and two landscape per two pages.

5uspect

Rojo wrote:

I see... So how would I make a pdf on windows xp?


Thanks, Neil! :P

There's plenty of free pdf converters online that'll print any document to pdf. (Most of them act as virtual printers so you print to pdf rather than save to pdf)

Another option is acrobat professional and Photoshop has a automation option to take a folder of formatted and edited pics and write them to a single pdf.

familyguy

Rojo wrote:

I see... So how would I make a pdf on windows xp?

Well you could get OpenOffice, which is a lot like using Word and then save as a PDF

There's also Scribus, which is a more graphic design-type thing, so not as easy to use, but more advanced.

Before Scribus, I used PrimoPDF which works with whatever software you want. It pretends to be a printer, so you make your document, and then just 'print' it to save a PDF of it.

You're welcome

Borderfox

Nice shots, personally I would tailor each protfolio to each client and would send a hard copy and it on a DVD slideshow. I find that a lot of people are more condusive to sitting down and watching it on the tv. Good luck with the pitch.

311

Borderfox wrote:

Nice shots, personally I would tailor each protfolio to each client and would send a hard copy and it on a DVD slideshow. I find that a lot of people are more condusive to sitting down and watching it on the tv. Good luck with the pitch.

I enjoyed your work border ,the disc was well presented aswell;)
Definetly showing work from a disc feels more material ,almost photograph like.

Good luck with the work fenster.

Fionn

Mark
first off congrats on the knot tying

some of the photographs are a bit somber/dark, would you consider a more "Stock" look! judging from their website it has that sort of feel/look, I know you have some much brighter less somber examples of your work

as someone mentioned a couple of portraits would be an advantage - if you could get a wedding shot, even if you have to set one up! might be a big advantage.
Being wedding specialists i presume they would like to see examples of low light, black&white and portraiture as the main part of a portfolio.

The only other thing that struck me was - is it a requirement to submit in .pdf format? i've a resonable connection here but it was sluggish to download and (at least online) pdf documents don't show photographs that great.
good luck with it

hope you get the job!