Re: Exciting project
- original message - Mike Johnston wrote A few years ago I decided to do a portfolio of my 100 Best 35mm Prints. This is really pretty exciting and a lot of fun --I'd recommend it! I just had a similar experience - had to pick out 12 images for a landscape workshop that I attended last weekend. I would guess that I went through close to 1,000 slides - some nearly 20 years old. Its interesting to see how my pictures have progressed (and regressed) over the years. Just out of curiosity, how many people here have actual portfolios that are complete and finished? The guy that ran the workshop (UK landscape photographer Charlie Waite) strongly recommended that we put portfolios together if for no other reason than to simply impress the hell out of our friends. Pat _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - 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 .
Re: Exciting project
Mike.I started my horsey portfolio 2 years ago,put it aside due toreal workduties and never went back to it. I think this might kick start me again. Thanks Dave Begin Original Message From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few years ago I decided to do a portfolio of my 100 Best 35mm Prints. I wish y'all could help! --Mike P.S. Just out of curiosity, how many people here have actual portfolios that are complete and finished? - End Original Message Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail - 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 .
Re: Exciting project
What, it doesn't include that portrait of the Hasey smashed on the pavement? G Norm William Robb wrote: As much as a portfolio is ever finished. I have 2 that I use on the rare occasion that someone expresses an interest in paying me to shoot something. One is a mix of black and white and colour studio work for the wedding and portrait jobs (thankfully, it doesn't get out much these days), and the other is a bunch of 11 x 14 fine prints that I have put into a portfolio case. I show this to people just to prove I can set a spirit level to keep a horizon straight. Its actually amazing how many jobs I pick up with the latter book. - 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 .
Re: Exciting project
Dave B. wrote: Mike.I started my horsey portfolio 2 years ago,put it aside due toreal workduties and never went back to it. I think this might kick start me again. My friend A. D. Coleman likes to use the term reify--it means to make real. His idea is that a portfolio can't be vaporware, or virtual, existing in your mind. It has to be actual, has to exist, so you can show it to a total stranger and not have to make a single excuse or say a word of explanation. And if you're going to all that work anyway, you might as well have something to show for it. Good luck. Let me know if you need another kick, and I'll be happy to berate you. s --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 .
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I am building mine at present. I'm actually working on a web version first. That way I don't need to disassemble the real thing to make the web version later. It is very cool to see even 20 of one's best images together, side by side. Tom C. - Original Message - From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Exciting project Dave B. wrote: Mike.I started my horsey portfolio 2 years ago,put it aside due toreal workduties and never went back to it. I think this might kick start me again. My friend A. D. Coleman likes to use the term reify--it means to make real. His idea is that a portfolio can't be vaporware, or virtual, existing in your mind. It has to be actual, has to exist, so you can show it to a total stranger and not have to make a single excuse or say a word of explanation. And if you're going to all that work anyway, you might as well have something to show for it. Good luck. Let me know if you need another kick, and I'll be happy to berate you. s --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 . - 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 .
Re: Exciting project
In a message dated 12/7/01 2:16:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (SNIP) So, the upshot of that ramble is: have several portfolios, edit ferociously, get help from experienced photographers who don't care if they upset you, get a thick skin, have a theme for each portfolio I have two, portraiture and industrial. Since I've formally retired, I won't have to submit my books for judging anymore. A jury from your local Guild should do the final culling. The very first edit of my submissions to a Guild jury saw them cull 541 photos down to 87, 31 of which were deemed only marginal. Other than the jury steward, you don't know who your jurists were, which helps you keep your cool at future Guild meetings. **Each book should be refreshed frequently, keeping abreast of modern techniques, including digital offerings. Mafud [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 .
RE: Exciting project
Whoa! Some of us (alright me) need this sort of advice. For far too long I've used my MX on 'this is how it is photos' as in the photos you take when renovating a car, so that when you put it back together you remember where each bit goes. I am moving on into photos that friends comment on and say WOW! You may know it all, I don't. Malcolm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 December 2001 21:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exciting project In a message dated 12/7/01 2:16:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (SNIP) So, the upshot of that ramble is: have several portfolios, edit ferociously, get help from experienced photographers who don't care if they upset you, get a thick skin, have a theme for each portfolio I have two, portraiture and industrial. Since I've formally retired, I won't have to submit my books for judging anymore. A jury from your local Guild should do the final culling. The very first edit of my submissions to a Guild jury saw them cull 541 photos down to 87, 31 of which were deemed only marginal. Other than the jury steward, you don't know who your jurists were, which helps you keep your cool at future Guild meetings. **Each book should be refreshed frequently, keeping abreast of modern techniques, including digital offerings. Mafud [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 . - 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 .
Re: Exciting project
Mike writes: I'm getting back to a really exciting project... An exciting project yes, as in painful, horrible, bad-for-your-self-confidence experience :-) I'm selecting about 25 prints for a show I'll have in February in San Francisco (more on that when I get the invitations) and it is an awful task. Right now I have about 90 pictures in a maybe pile, but it's hard for me to keep editing. It would be much easier to select, sat, 3 to 5 prints. It's difficult to keep a common thread with tens of pictures... That, or I need to shoot more. I wish y'all could help! Hey, I do yours, you do mine, how about that? :-) -- --- Juan J. Buhler | Sr. FX Animator @ PDI | Photos at http://www.jbuhler.com --- - 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 .
Re: Exciting project
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 .
Re: Exciting project
Since I am going to be available in six months for full-time photography (can't just sit still when I retire) I am working on a web site to show my photography. In order to attract as many hits as possible, I chose the theme San Antonio City Limits - Places To Go, Things To Do and People To Meet In San Antonio I first drew up an assignment sheet - Places To Earn, Places To Learn, Places To Play, Places To Pray, Places For Fun and People To Meet. With about 85 keepers so far, I think I am about half done and should have it up and running in June or July. It has turning into a real Convention And Visitors Bureau endeavor. I have lived in San Antonio for 27 years and sometimes wondered what attracted conventions and vacationers to this great city. After playing tourist for the past six months, I have gained a new appreciation for my home city. I can't wait till its done and I can start all over again ;-) -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail - 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 .
Re: Exciting project
Horse legs ar eup and perfect Dave(rum fglowing)Brooks Begin Original Message From: Robert Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:21:27 -0600 To: List-Pentax (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exciting project does one *KNOW* when it's complete and/or finished T - --Mike P.S. Just out of curiosity, how many people here have actual portfolios that are complete and finished? - 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 . End Original Message Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail - 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 .
Re: Exciting project
Juan B. wrote: An exciting project yes, as in painful, horrible, bad-for-your-self-confidence experience :-) Yes, it's definitely tough. I ended up with only about 190 possibles although I'm sure there are more to be found--some that I remember I know I'll want. I found another big load of about 400 prints this morning but picked only about 8 prints out of the entire 400 as possibles. Of course some of what are left are nice pictures, but they're either medium format or commercial work or camera test shots and so forth. The first pass through the possibles was to pick out the absolute must haves out of the pile, and it's not as easy as I thought it would be. My big advantage here is that I'm only doing this for myself, not to exhibit or to use for sales. I wish y'all could help! Hey, I do yours, you do mine, how about that? Probably wouldn't be a bad idea, Juan --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 .
Re: Exciting project
pentax-discuss-digest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I am going to be available in six months for full-time photography (can't just sit still when I retire) I am working on a web site to show my photography. In order to attract as many hits as possible, I chose the theme San Antonio City Limits - Places To Go, Things To Do and People To Meet In San Antonio I first drew up an assignment sheet - Places To Earn, Places To Learn, Places To Play, Places To Pray, Places For Fun and People To Meet. With about 85 keepers so far, I think I am about half done and should have it up and running in June or July. It has turning into a real Convention And Visitors Bureau endeavor. I have lived in San Antonio for 27 years and sometimes wondered what attracted conventions and vacationers to this great city. After playing tourist for the past six months, I have gained a new appreciation for my home city. I can't wait till its done and I can start all over again ;-) That's a fantastic idea, Ken. I can't wait to see the finished web site. --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 .
Re: Exciting project
- Original Message - From: Mike Johnston Subject: Exciting project P.S. Just out of curiosity, how many people here have actual portfolios that are complete and finished? As much as a portfolio is ever finished. I have 2 that I use on the rare occasion that someone expresses an interest in paying me to shoot something. One is a mix of black and white and colour studio work for the wedding and portrait jobs (thankfully, it doesn't get out much these days), and the other is a bunch of 11 x 14 fine prints that I have put into a portfolio case. I show this to people just to prove I can set a spirit level to keep a horizon straight. Its actually amazing how many jobs I pick up with the latter book. William Robb - 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 .
