Studio Practice: Portfolio Tips and Tricks & Planning

General Rules:

Remember to be playful when photographing work.
Avoid using mockups
Think about sequencing, do you need a cover page?
Start and end strongly
For each project include a short description of the brief and concept (similar to a rationale but use more reasoning for your design decisions).
One project per page, try to keep images big to see work, no more than 3 pages per project, this stops it being repetitive. Need to show something different in each photograph.
Less is more, don't overcrowd.
It's okay to have one big image on a page.
Have landscape (A4 300 dpi).

Photographing work:

Try to use natural light.
Don't shoot from too low down, get high up.
If in doubt use a top down set up.
Natural light can be just as good, use a good window, same background, same position, taken on the same day.
Somethings are okay for scanning, flat posters, flyers etc.

For Digital Work:

If they're moving, add to a pdf.
Mock ups can be okay fro things like apps etc.

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What Have I Got to Include in my Portfolio?

> EdFringe Publication
- Photograph, play with angles/top shots.
> EdFringe Projection
- Having the mock up done for design boards would be fine to show this.
> BoW1 Bikini Beach (publication)
- Again top shot photograph as well as some experimental shots, should show close up of bind as well as page details.
> BoW2 New Years Resolutions
- Need to have the to do list well lit, think about how to make the cover more clear.
- Do I need to include everyone elses? need to photograph in the same way.
> Bow3 ?
> Camden Brewery (poster, beer mat, beer can, print, animation)
> Significance of Numbers (publication)
- Scans of print side/or presented on a wall.
- photographed publication.

> Close ups, showing specific details of the work, not just how it looks overall, demonstrating the concepts.
> Top shot photography to show the overall appearance.