PORTFOLIO DESIGN
Your photographs must be presented in a professional manner. Choose only finished prints for your portfolio. Never show work prints or unspotted prints. Always show your best work. Plan your portfolio carefully. A good portfolio should have continuity and provide viewers with a clear idea as to what your vision is. It should be organized by subjects or different photographic styles. Horizontal and vertical images, as well as different size prints should be organized and grouped separately. Black and white images and color images should also be grouped separately for easier viewing.
Your work should be presented in an appropriate portfolio case or shipping case. If you are presenting your work to a gallery, it is best to use a case specifically designed for fine art photography. Cases are usually available from good local photography or art supply stores. You can also purchase them through mail order companies.
Your photographs should be completely finished prints that are ready for sale. They should be overmatted, signed, dated, titled, numbered, and stamped with your print identification stamp. Before making your portfolio presentation, remove any tissue or plastic bags that protect the prints. Make sure that your overmats are clean and free of any finger prints.
Your window overmats should be well cut, with clean straight lines, and look as good as possible. If you are having problems cutting them, try a professional frame shop. Shop around for the best prices, and if money is a problem, consider trading art for matting.
Info Gathered at http://art-support.com/portfolio.htm
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Resolution
Understanding Resolution
When you work with bitmap images like digital photographs, you work with pixels. A pixel (short for "picture element") is the smallest unit in a computer image or display. Every image on your computer is made up of a colored grid of pixels.
Your digital camera records pixels, your scanner converts physical images into pixels, your photo editing software manipulates pixels, your computer monitor displays pixels, and your printer paints pixels onto paper. In the digital world, "inches" don't exist, only pixels do.
The key to successfully editing, scanning, and printing images lies in understanding how pixels transform into inches and vice versa. Resolution is the interpreter between the physical world of inches and the digital world of pixels. When you scan an image, the scanner translates inches into pixels using resolution. When you print an image, the printer translates pixels into inches using resolution. So what's resolution? Unfortunately, the word is used in different ways in different contexts. "Camera resolution" usually means something slightly different from "image resolution", and "printer resolution" is something else yet again.
information taken from http://www.fotofinish.com/resources/centers/photo/resolution.htm
When you work with bitmap images like digital photographs, you work with pixels. A pixel (short for "picture element") is the smallest unit in a computer image or display. Every image on your computer is made up of a colored grid of pixels.
Your digital camera records pixels, your scanner converts physical images into pixels, your photo editing software manipulates pixels, your computer monitor displays pixels, and your printer paints pixels onto paper. In the digital world, "inches" don't exist, only pixels do.
The key to successfully editing, scanning, and printing images lies in understanding how pixels transform into inches and vice versa. Resolution is the interpreter between the physical world of inches and the digital world of pixels. When you scan an image, the scanner translates inches into pixels using resolution. When you print an image, the printer translates pixels into inches using resolution. So what's resolution? Unfortunately, the word is used in different ways in different contexts. "Camera resolution" usually means something slightly different from "image resolution", and "printer resolution" is something else yet again.
information taken from http://www.fotofinish.com/resources/centers/photo/resolution.htm
More lighting how to's
For more lighting how to's go to http://photo.net/learn/making-photographs/light
This site gives great examples on how to shoot in different light-settings.
This site gives great examples on how to shoot in different light-settings.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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