JT Spunk | Photography

Will The Professionals Think Any Less Of Me For Using CDs…?

I Want To Put in some Applications/Portfolios into the Local Photography Studios(Some commonplace Portrait/Wedding And Some Commercial).

My opinion is to do both. Do a paper portfolio with maybe 10-15 of your BEST pics, and then a cd with maybe the 50 or so pics that show your range of ability and creativity.

I agree that you just cant completly replace the actual print portfolio. And its really not *that expensive. I mean, say 15 prints, so that like 30 dollars give or take at 8×10 (an 8×10 print off of flickr is 1.99usd and other places are close to that) and a black paged scrap book at the craft store is like 10-20. Ok, so that may be a lot of money for you. Well, then you save up for it. I agree that putting in the expense shows that you care about your art. This is after all your ART. This is what you are WANTing to do for a living, not what you are being forced to do, not the hohumdrum of a boring job you dont like.

However, this is the digital age. And in that respect, most professionals are using digital now. And since you are asking this, I assume you are taking your pics digitally, meaning that other than paper type and callibrating the printer, there is really nothing special about the actual print vs the digital file. It is becomming more popular to give customers cd’s of the pictures as well, instead of just prints. Customers are purchasing digital photo files instead of prints. I think using a cd or whatever digital format (please, no emailing digital pictures though) like your own website (as in your own, not flickr) shows knowledge of the digital era and technology. Customers are going to want to be able to see digital pictures, even if they are proofs only. Customers want to see their photographers previous work, and the internet/technology is the easiest way to do that. Also, with a digital format it is completly acceptable to have more pictures, therefore showing as I said a wider range of work/style/creativity.
As far as set up… I dont know. I tend to want to just be able to access the file rather than seeing a slide show that will often be set to change either too fast or too slow.
Remember however, that when giving out digital portfolios that you need to protect your images. Watermarks and all that good stuff. Perhaps a pdf file would do well there. However, if you are not familur with adobe already, their software is outrageously expensive.

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