Starting A Photography Portfolio

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22 August 2009

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Do you have a bundle of good pictures but don’t know where to start a photography portfolio? Think about what you should put in and how big it really should be? You've viewed your friends, colleges and pupils with photography portfolio’s with covers with all kinds of materials from stainless steel to plastic, and leather? They may have an appealing and fancy covers that are commonly very expensive but not so realistic for a beginner like you. Don't worry. Ever heard that you never judge a book by its cover? Well it’s true; a standard black plastic cover works fine for exhibiting your photography portfolio. What really counts is not what outside but the inner pages are what counts, correct?

You’re in all likelihood best bet is to stay with a plain black plastic cover and form on perfecting your photos inside. You really don't need external decoration on your portfolio since putting stickers and various designs all over it makes you look unprofessional and unprofessional. This is not a scrapbook of your family, right? This is thought to be the best representation of your most respected photography work.

As for the sizing, it really counts on what size the bulk of your photos are. I'd stick with a maxium going with a 8×10. Your photographs are not this big so smaller sizes work well too. Realize that you need to make speically sure that the overall theme of your photgraphy is represented in your work or you might come in with with oversized photos and a portfolio that looks like you've riped it from a billboard.

Starting, it's important to be careful to organzie correctly and look ove your photos one by one. Don't just put anything that you think might work into your photography portfolio. Try to organize them by theme since it will give the reviewer a sense that you can work with different theme’s have an overall idea of how to make many photo’s pop from one assignment