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Subject: [Leica] Portfolio Review
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Apr 6 08:46:36 2004

Okay....I would lose 4833, 0912, 7249, 4425, and 0811 for various
reasons:
7249, as others have noted, is way too blown out;
4833,0912, and 0881 may be okay as 'glamour' shots, but as portraits,
they strike me as, dare I say it, slutty. I wouldn't include them in a
portfolio for prospective portrait clients - on top of which 0912 has a
plastic look to it - too much PS?
And 4425 is the weaker of the two of the same young woman.

So you asked...:-)

B. D.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Slobodan Dimitrov
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:17 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Portfolio Review


Having two men in it is somewhat pointless. You might as well take them
out, or create another section with men only. S. Dimitrov

> From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 10:59:31 -0400
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Portfolio Review
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
>> Hey, Phong - Can you repeat the instructions - I missed them. Thanks 
>> - B. D.
> 
> 
> And to think that I purposely wrote the "goal
> of the portfolio" part with you in mind.  :-)
> Here goes,
> 
> By the way, as I would do during a live portfolio
> review, that I am not responding does not mean
> I am not listening very carefully to what everyone
> has to say.  So please keep the comments coming.
> It's been great so far.
> Thanks,
> 
> - Phong
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> I just finished putting my portrait portfolio
>> together.  There are 17 images, and I need your help
>> to reduce to between 12 and 15.  I would appreciate
>> it very much if you could take a moment to review my portfolio at:
>> 
>> http://www.phongdoan.com/Photography/PortraitPortfolio
>> 
>> and tell me which few are the strongest (definite keepers) and which 
>> are weakest (candidates for exclusion).
>> 
>> The goal is to have a portfolio to convince people
>> that I can make them look good in print so that
>> they will let me take their photos for fun or
>> for pay.
>> 
>> Any other comment on my portfolio is also
>> much appreciated.
>> 
>> I think soon I will be ready to learn to take photos
>> that have 2 people in them.  :-)
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> - Phong
>> 
>> 
> 
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