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How To Build a Photography Portfolio for College Part 3
Part 1 and Part 2 I was helping Sam try to figure out his style as well as sending him off to capture more images for us to choose from. Part 3 brings this process to a close when we start to narrow down all of his images to the 10 keepers for his portfolio.
I want to point out that I am not telling Sam what images he has to use in his portfolio. I am merely giving my professional opinion on what I think would work best for his college entrance portfolio. I mention that a few ties to him, that I think this would be a strong image but if there is another image you feel strongly about feel free to use it.
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Rapid Fire Critique with Ryan Killkennycat
We have all seen Ryan aka Killkennycat’s photos week and and week out in the weekend photo theme. I asked Ryan to come on for an AdoramaPix Rapid Fire Critique and to select 10 of her images.
Ryan is shooting with a Canon T1i along with the Canon 50 1.4. She told me that she has broken two of the plastic fantastic 50 1.8′s and that is why she purchased the better lens.
Take a look at Ryans work and you will see the quality of what she is creating. Week in and week out she is “trying” something new and exciting to take her photography to the next level.
This is a big congratulations to her for all of her hard work.
CLICK HERE to see Ryans full set.
How To Build a Photography Portfolio for College Part 2
This is Part 2 of 3 where I help Sam select images for his college photography portfolio.
Sam is trying to get accepted to Antonelli Institue and they requiere a 10 photo portfolio that is reviewed by the administration.
In part 2 Sam is showing me photos that I sent him out on assignment to capture. (Click Here for Part 1) With just a little bit of coaching Sam came back with some really quality images. I think one of the strongest images in the group is the poll vaulter.
Lets see what Sam comes up with for Part 3.
How To Build a Photography Portfolio for College Part 1
This is Part 1 of 3 where I help Sam select images for his college photography portfolio.
Sam is trying to get accepted to Antonelli Institue and they requiere a 10 photo portfolio that is reviewed by the administration.
In this part I take a look at the photos that Sam currently has to see if he has enough solid images to create his portfolio.
There are a few shots that are worthy and a few that could definitely be built upon. Check out the video to see what the outcome of Part 1 is. Click Here for parts 2 and 3.
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Rapid Fire Critique #024 – Beginner Photography Critique
When I put out the word that I was doing some Rapid Fire Critiques which never are rapid the other day, Vinnie dropped me a line. Vinnie is a college student who now is the photo editor of his schools paper.
He is shooting mostly with the Nikon D40 which is not a bad little camera for everyday shooting.
If you would like to submit 10 photos via flickr please click the “submit photos” button above. Please do not send 10 separate jpegs, please make sure they are hosted on a site like flickr.
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AdoramaPix Rapid Fire Critique and Photography Discussion
I am back with another AdoramaPix Rapid Fire Critique and this time I have the photographer on the skype line with me (skype jaredpolin). I enjoy doing these critiques with the photographer on the line with me, it gives me the chance to ask questions and be straight up honest with them.
This skype call went well beyond your normal critique, we dove into Brandons current school situation to find out that he is going to hold a very prestigious post at his college News Paper.
Brandon it turns out is a freshman in college who is working for the school news paper and will be taking over as photo editor. That is an amazing feat for a freshman to accomplish. What is great about attending such a large college is its a sports photographers dream. You are surrounded by so many different teams that you would probably photograph all day every day. Everything from practices to games to behind the scenes stories. That is just shooting the sports, we can’t forget the arts, there are concerts, musicals, music, sculpting and so many other amazing opportunities to shoot.
I have always said if I went to a four year school it would have been an amazing place to photograph. The only difference is at 18 and 19 I was not ready to handle those situations and my interactions with peers were not up to par yet.
Another great advantage of going to a college like this is they will supply you with some pro camera gear. Sure some of it is out of date but you are getting real world on the job training and in some cases getting paid for it. If someone is going to let you use gear, pay you and give you access to pretty much professional athletes you better enjoy it and learn as much as possible.
I think Brandon is off to an amazing start. He has a four year on the job education in photography that will give him a step up on so many other photographers his age. I hope to continue to follow Brandon and his work and look forward to speaking with him again.
If you would like to submit your best 10 images please use the “submit photos” button above. I am looking for either your best 10 photos or a great set of photos that tells a story.
Rapid Fire Critique 22
Doing a critique of someones work is definitely not the easiest thing in the world to do. You do not want to be overly critical but you don’t want to just say “I like it, I don’t like it”.
This weeks Critique was interesting as the images were all over the place. We had people pictures to flower shots to lighting and cars. I think my feedback on these images will really help the photographer out. I do not mean any of this criticism to come across mean in any way.
I feel the only way for us all to get better is to keep learning and seeing how we can improve our work.
Click here to see all 10 images
Rapid Fire Critique #021
I am back with a NEW AdoramaPix Rapid Fire Critique and this week we have a photo set by Bruce. What is interesting about this set is that Bruce has been sending me different sets of images for the past few months. Each time I look at his sets they keep getting better and better and after the changes he made it was time to shine the spotlight on the 10 images he selected.
I really like the direction he is going with his photography. The tones, contrast and color he is capturing is spot on. I can see that one of the reasons he is doing so well is he has learned how to capture images with the Canon 50mm 1.8. This is a lens that any beginner photographer should have in their bag if they are shooting Canon.
Click here to see the rest of this sets images.
Rapid Fire Critique #020 – Photography Critique
Welcome to another installment of the AdoramaPix Rapid Fire Critique. This week I selected a photo set from Vasco Silva who has a handful of killer shots.
I will put this in here now that some people may find this to be a harsh critique but as I explain in the video its being honest all while giving positive feedback to make some of the images better. I mentioned that Zack Arias a professional and very sought after photographer still takes his portfolio to portfolio reviews to be “ripped apart”.
Keep in mind many times when someone is critiquing your work they do not know the stories behind the images and generally you do not get to explain each image to the client or person looking. You have to take what the person is saying and break it down to the situation that you were in when you shot it. That is what I tried to do while looking at this set of images, I tried to mention that I was not there and I may be missing the point but with what is presented to me I have to base my critique off of that.
Vasco has some really killer black and white shots in here and is definitely on the right path to having a full set of incredible images.
If you would like to submit 10 photos to be critiqued please e mail a link to a gallery to FroKnowsPhoto@gmail.com
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Rapid Fire Critique – Critique my 10 photos
Thats right, it is your turn to critique my 10 photos. I thought it would be fun to put up 10 photos from the Matisyahu tour and ask that you guys critique my images like I do each week to yours.
If you have the ability to make a screen flow please critique my ten photos which are posted below on flickr and than upload it to YouTube as a video response.
You can also leave a critique below in the facebook comments.
Have fun and be sure to submit your top 10 to photos to FroKnowsPhoto@gmail.com with the subject line AdoramaPix Rapid Fire Critique.
