PC3: Personal Portfolio

The importance of personal portfolio is it represents who you are to your clients, it reflects you as a photographer and your understanding in this field, showing you are an innovative, your creative ability and professional skills you have. An outstanding portfolio is memorable, unique and concise, showing a serious of photographs you are proud of and you can talk about. Thus, when customers see your works, they would know how much time you have invested on preparing your portfolio.

Before setting up a personal portfolio, it is essential to think what sort of photographer you are and spend some time to look at other photographers how they show their portfolios, it could be found in a show, an exhibition or online video. Moreover, the outcome needs to be considered to show present your work. There are several ways to output your works, such as printing in books, prints or magazines. You need to spend time on curating your selection of strongest images, maybe redo the sequence to relate the visual language. And also, speak to people, show them your images and gain some feedback from them.

Besides, you could use technology to support your portfolio, like iPad/iPhone portfolio. It’s easy to carry on if you travel aboard as well as showing works via online, like a skype meeting. But, producing physical is still important as it shows your products, you can hold it, feel the texture of paper, feel the weight of portfolio.

It’s an object that you could showcase your ability of making printed portfolio.

I would have both digital portfolio and printed portfolio to present my works as I might target in different audience in the future. A physical portfolio is mainly my chosen I work on as I am picky when producing a physical outcome, like making a book, I would be serious considering each steps and details to ensure the result excellently. Majority my works are produced in book, which I don’t need to buy a box, or I could make different type of book case to protect my books. The idea of physical portfolio is made by hand would easily get customers expressed, last time I was working on photo etching, the technician did ask me where I get the grey A5 Solander box, I said I made it, and she got really surprised as making a box is the most difficult one in book making area. Thus, I think producing portfolio in hands would be ideal and showing off my technique of making things.