Hello Larry, One thing that would probably help her is to make a targeted portfolio. For example, if she was going for wedding photographers, then she should show samples of her work for that type of genre. As I looked through the gallery, I was viewing it more as a photo gallery rather than her skills at photoshop. I had felt it was a little heavy handed on the processing, but was only viewing it as a photographer.
What would work best is for her to get with someone who does that kind of shooting and offer to take some of their raw files and process them. This would give her some portfolio to show off and would also give her a possible foot in the door. She could contact some of the local photographers near her and see if they would be willing to do that. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 5:26:24 PM, you wrote: LC> Sorry about the delay in getting back on this. I'm towards the end of LC> a stretch of 60ish hour 6 or 7 day weeks at work, and while I don't LC> mind blathering incoherently in normal banter, when it's somewhat LC> important I want to try to get it close to right. LC> In short, she's a recetly out of work graphics person. She probably LC> has some fancy title like graphics designer, or ad copy layout LC> goddess. She does kickass work with photoshop, and I suggested that LC> she try to sell her photoshop services to people who could make more LC> money if they spent more time behind the camera and less in front of LC> the computer. LC> She's trying to put together a portfolio to show off her photoshop LC> skills. LC> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:31:42AM -0400, Doug Brewer wrote: >> Larry Colen wrote: >> >A friend of mine is putting together a portfolio to show off her >> >work. She has asked me to look at her work and give her feedback on >> >what should and shouldn't go into the portfolio. LC> snippo >> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157615265196519/ >> >or alternatively >> >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157615265196519/ >> >> who is the intended audience? >>From Candice: LC> I thought I told you the goal, it's mainly to have examples of my LC> photo processing abilities. I would also have to have before LC> shots, but I want opinions of finished photos first, since most of LC> the before are sufficiently dull or problematic that the LC> difference can be seen. If in the process, someone can look at LC> them and think, "oh, she's a pretty good photog," that's good too, but it's also gravy. LC> Audience is anyone who would potentially want me to process their LC> photos. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
