Spring has finally sprung, and even if we did get snow that 32 degrees just didn’t feel as cold somehow.
The Portfolio Project has been underway for several months now and a lot of you have posted images to your folders in the Gallery. It has been great to see what you have done, and we encourage you to look at everyone else’s images and to give some feedback. It is always good to hear what other people think of our work, it helps us grow and can be the catalyst that makes a good presentation into a great one.
For those of you who are working on your concepts but have not posted anything yet, we look forward to seeing what you have been doing!
As for the rest of the club, if you have not signed up for the project, but have come up with a group of related images you want to share you still have until April 15.
Sign up instructions:
- Get registered as a gallery user by going to http://nvps.org/gallery/main.php and clicking on register (upper right hand corner). Follow the directions on the screen to get yourself a login and password. If you are already a registered user of the gallery then you start at step two.
- Send your gallery user name (not your password) to portfolio-gallery@nvps.org and request Portfolio Project participation.
- You will receive an email confirming creation of your album at which point you will be able to upload pictures as well as comment on other member’s pictures. Remember the images need to be posted in the Portfolio Gallery, not in your personal folder on the Members Gallery site.
For those of you who had challenges uploading your Artist Statement, we do need you to have the Artist Statement with your images. There are two ways I know of to get that in. If you want to put it on an image take the image into Photoshop and add a text box, you can then copy and paste the text from a document into the text box. I’ll be happy to walk you through the steps. If you want to attach a document to the gallery the easiest way I know is to save the document as an Adobe pdf. Since a pdf file is a picture you can then simply upload it as you would a jpeg image. The people at the Ask Me a Question table probably know other ways to do this also, just ask them or me.
The final review is on May 12 with Brian Zwit so we want to make April 30 the cut off for new entries and changes to existing folders. Depending on how many people end up uploading images for review we want a maximum of 12 to 15 of your best images plus the artist statement as the number that will be shown for each of you. For those of you who have a story-like theme it’s equally important to establish a flow, dawn to dusk, spring to winter, general to specific, old to new, perhaps a color flow, there are a lot of ways to tell a story.
And then you need to think about how you will present your images to the club on May 12th. After all this effort you should show the world your achievement. Remember that the restriction on the number of images only extends to the review part of the evening, for your entire portfolio you can include as many images as you feel is appropriate to achieve your goal.
There are a lot of ways to show your work, you can do prints, a book, even an auto-visual presentation in a laptop. A number of sources are available and we highly recommend you check out the excellent presentation by Scott Musson in the club archives at https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/PhotoBooksCalendars.pdf. If you do a book, My Publisher, Blurb and Shutterfly all offer easy to follow instructions and quick turn-around time. The main thing is we want to get a chance to see what you have achieved and it’s nice to have something tangible for yourself, your friends and your family.
So remember the dates, upload your final portfolio by April 30 and be there on May 12 for the final review!
FOR THE END OF YEAR BANQUET PLEASE EMAIL ME THE NAMES OR JPEGS OF YOUR FAVORITE 3 IMAGES FROM THIS YEAR’S PORTFOLIO. We will be part of the revolving slide presentation during dinner and should be able to get in 3 from everyone!
Ginger and Ceasar