May 2008
Beginner
297 pages
9h 14m
English
Content preview from Canon® EOS Digital Photography Photo Workshop
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11.3. SHOWING OFF YOUR WORK
It's great to be appreciated for your talents, and today there are a wide variety of ways to get your images to an interested audience. However, to do so, you want to have your images prepared properly for however and wherever you intend to show them. Then, you need a way to sell or, at the very least, a way to produce and deliver them to your customers, friends, or family.
11.3.1. WHAT ARE SOME GOOD WAYS TO CREATE A PORTFOLIO?
A portfolio of your images might mean that you present them in a traditional, physical photography portfolio, as shown in 11-2. There's almost no substitute for being able to show images in this way, and the resolution you get with a high-quality photographic print always presents a photo very well.
Figure 11-2. A traditional full-sized photography portfolio, such as this one belonging to my wife, Amy (who is also a photographer), lets people view prints of your photos at close range. There's something about seeing a photo printed in real life that just can't be replicated on a computer screen. Taken with a 1D Mark II and an EF 24-70mm f/2.8L lens at ISO 125, 1/250 second, f/10. ©Serge Timacheff
However, how you go about preparing a print portfolio depends on whether you have digital printing equipment, such as a high-quality photo printer, or use a lab to produce your digital images on paper. If you're printing the image yourself, ...
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