Portfolio Help Please

[anna_marie09]

Hi There,
I'm needing some help.I'm trying to get into college but they need a portfolio and i was wanting some portrait shots to show them. i've got someone to model for me but im needing some help,has any one got any tips to share or anything like that? Anything will be good

Thanks

[Snapman]

Welcome to the forum :)

Sounds like you need a lot of help. What equipment have you available to work with? Also, do you have any preference for taking the portraits indoors or outside?

[Mark_Cohran]

There are lots of resources online. You can simply Google photography portrait techniques and get lots of links. But, without specifics, there is little we can do to assist you. We don't know what kind of equipment you're using, what type of lighting you have available, what your existing experience level is, or what type of portraits you are interested in shooting. More detail would be most helpful.

In the meantime, I can suggest perusing the Learning Forums at www.photo.net, as well as some of the online tutorials at Kodak.

I've also published a few techniques on my site at http://www/mac-photo.net - but mine aren't work safe so be warned.

Mark

[Big_B]

Have a look through the People section of the forum. If you find a photo you like, try asking the original poster about how they achieved it.

[anna_marie09]

thanks for everyone getting back to me.Well as i'm new to all this im going to get a camera tomorrow its a samsung digimax A6 digital,but if any one can suggest a better one (under £200) it would be great.It's about the best i can do just now till i get a better one but its just to get me started.I want to do indoor and outdoor pics but manly indoor though.I have a few photos already but its just the portraits where im stuck lol i've been reading on the net how to put a portfolio together and seen some online and its been really helpfull but i'm not sure if my photos so far are to the standards what the college are looking for.If i put some up will you give me your thoughts?
Thanks

[Mark_Cohran]

I'm sure that if you posted some photos, many of the POTN regulars would be happy to give you some feedback. The proper forum for that, though, is probably the People forum.

If you wanted to put an image or two in this thread we could give you some pointers, but you're more likely to get more feedback in the other forum.

[anna_marie09]

i've got some others but there to big just came up error...please tell me what you think of these anyway.