Portfolio Additions

[orikes]

Now that I'm unemployed again, I need to update my portfolio. The majority of the work I did at this last job was fairly standard retouching (blemish here, pimple there), and the 'art' in those images really belongs to the photographer rather than me. Still, we did offer a product called a Personality Print. These were essentially collages put together from several different images from the customer. Now the hard part is deciding which one(s) to actually include.



I've included all the prints I worked on, so some are stronger than others. Still, I want honest opinions on which ones you think are strongest and worthy enough of going into my portfolio. Let me know one or two that you really like. Please?

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Comments

My suggestion:

[neobitch.livejournal.com]

Include them all. Give the ones you like best / think represent your work best more precedence by putting them in an image-vs-text layout something like:

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[good thumbnail] [good thumbnail] [good thumbnail]
see also: link1, link2, link3
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That way, they can go through everything you've done, if they're really curious or, if they just want a brief glance, have some thumbnails right there ready to be clicked -- which are, of course, your Really Good Ones(tm).

Alternately, create a subpage that shows all of them as thumbnails and, when clicked on, they go to a popup or new window discussing that image. Split the 'discussion' into two parts: Image Highlights, and Potential Improvements -- meaning you have a chance to 'show off' even with the images you're less proud of, because you're talking about how you'd improve the job done, if you'd had more time to work on it.

I'll poke through the images some more later tonight, if I can. All in all, it's good stuff. There's nothing in there that immediately jumps out as 'oof, don't include this', and the majority of 'em are good solid portfolio pieces.

[7th-son.livejournal.com]

Well, don't include the ones you don't like. I learned this lesson the hard way when, as an undegrad, I submitted about two dozen poems to the campus creative writing magazine and they printed every single one, even the ones that sucked.

Still, if you are submitting electronically, including thumbnails and so on is a good idea. Alternately, it is easy to make a simple web page to showcase additional work, and leave a pointer to that page on your resume.

But to answer your question more simply, I like Carolyn's (where I think the colors are particularly smooth) and Dan's (which seems better to me than the equally large but more visually repetitive Andrew). I kind of like Greece and Zack's as well. All of the images are very handsome, so it's really just a question of picking the top half. Those are my picks.

JT