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General => Everything Else => Topic started by: stacer on December 05, 2005, 03:46:57 AM
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So, I'm thinking about setting myself up again to do wedding photography out here as a side business, what with the student loans coming due. I think I need to choose 10-20 of my very best pictures to showcase my talents before I go live on this. Can you guys go to my portfolio at http://norroway.thelemur.net/view_album.php?set_albumName=portfolio and tell me which of those you think is my very best picture? If each person picks five, then perhaps that will help me narrow it down.
As a side question, what do you think of the quality? Even though I've been doing this for something like 9 years, lately I've felt like my talents are slipping, probably because I have gaps in my photographic training (I was a photography major for a while, but only took one class, then went back to MFHD to graduate earlier).
That's only a very small sample of what I've done over the years--when I reformatted I lost the electronic copies of half my portfolio, and I haven't rescanned. I don't even know if my best work is up there, really. I'm feeling rather disorganized.
Perhaps I shouldn't even worry about it, because I've got plenty to worry about with work, but it's something I'm considering for occasional evenings and weekends, and it'd be an incentive to get back going on that hobby. And perhaps I could make enough to replace my computer, which is currently falling apart--screen no longer holds itself up, CD/DVD drive burnt out, and the rest of it on its way out. I'm also freelancing for my old magazine again, and working on my book--but the book may never get done. I've got too many projects and not enough time or energy, man.
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hmmm...I think that the best five, in no particular order, are these ones:
1. the PA barn
2. the grandma one
3. the haystack one
4. golden morning
5. starvation
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I probably should have specified: in this case, I'm looking particularly for people pictures, including the three or four wedding/engagement shot albums in that folder I linked.
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I like Happy Couple and Eyes
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I really like the Jen and Mark album the best. But here's my specific picks.
bride closeup (Jen and Mark)
bride shot lr (Jen and Mark)
happy couple lr (Jen and Mark)
123005-090 (Emily and Joshua)
small 2 (Emily and Joshua)
tree lr (Jen and Mark though his expression is a little grimacy...)
123005-006 (Emily and Joshua)
Hope this helps!
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I didn't have time to look through all of them, but these are the ones I like so far:
Engagement/Bridal shots
#1: nathan jen lr
#11: 003
Paul and Kristin
003
019
025
027
038
056
Emily and Joshua
#3: 123005-065
#10: 123005-094
#11: small 2
#47: 123005-090
#48: 123005-091
#53: the black and white with red flowers
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Thanks for the feedback. I've been re-scanning and uploading a few more weddings and engagement shots so I have a wider variety to choose from, and hiding the ones that I think are bad to narrow it down between folders. I have one more wedding from my time in Boston to scan, which I won't get to this week, I think. And I added a portrait album, which includes other kinds of portraits besides weddings. I think I'll have quite a few to choose from. I think I'll try to get it up and running for the springtime, because then I can concentrate on outdoor portraits, seeing as how I don't have a studio, and getting studio time would probably cost more than I'm willing/able to invest.