Bob Walkden wrote: > I joined the RPS (www.rps.org) a couple of years ago and earlier this year > got my Licentiate distinction, which is the 1st of 3 leading to the > Fellowship. For these you have to put together a portfolio (they call > it a panel)
[snip] > I do intend to put my panel on my website one of these days, but in > the meantime I'm planning the shoot for my next distinction, which > will be 15 photos in the Visual Journalism category, and which I hope > to get next year. That's fascinating. May I come live with you? They don't have any such thing in the U.S. unless you pay for it. This "100 Best" portfolio of mine will be, I don't know, maybe my sixth portfolio. And even so it excludes medium and large format, and color. Plus it's not meant to have a theme, nor to be pictures that will impress anything on others; rather, just my own favorites. But you know, as I go along with it, it's obvious that my work centers of several themes--my son, portraits of kids, swimming and seashores or lakeshore, farmland and farm animals, esp. horses. Certain types of shooting are almost completely absent--street photography, for instance, or wildlife. There's only one mountain <g>. I'm almost wondering if it won't start to want to break itself up into smaller portfolios as I go along with the project. Certainly 100 shots isn't much for a "retrospective" and yet it's far too much of any particular theme. Thanks, Bob, for the fascinating look at the RPS process. You know, I'd almost forgotten, but I have a pretty extensive article up on the web regarding portfolios and how to edit them. I'll have to go see if I can find it again (and then see if it's any good--I've forgotten <g>). It's on the Photography in Malaysia web site, mir.com. --Mike - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
