Category: portfolios

Working for Free – “Exposure” If you’ve never seen anything by the Oatmeal, then I highly recommend spending a couple of hours going through his work, and better

Ah, the old controversy of working for free. A guaranteed way to get any self-employed person’s blood flowing. I’ve read several posts and articles about this topic recently,

Not a very lengthy summary this, as I’ve made most of my arguments within the main posts. Instead here’s a quick list of what I think are the

Format. As with so many things in life, there’s no such thing as an average portfolio meeting. I’ve shown my portfolio in the waiting room, reception, the corridor,

Making Contact. OK, so you’ve got a beautifully printed portfolio full of your very best quality work, now you actually need to go out and get work with

Image Format. So now we get on to the easy bit, the actual physical, tangible aspects that make up the portfolio itself. I’m a bit of a traditionalist

A Body of Work. This is quite a vast subject in it’s own right, many areas of which are beyond the scope of a relatively simple piece about

Editing. The difficulty in putting together a portfolio of work lies in what constitutes your best work. The two main threads here are the images that you consider

Even in this high-tech, information superhighway, digitised, sci-fi, skinny latte, post-modern, post-impressionist, post-everything world there’s still a very important place within photography for the distinctly old-school portfolio. There’s