Portfolios ...

[Digital Prophet]

What format do you use for your portfolios? Does everyone use the traditional attache design? Do you have boards? Glossy prints? Matte? Borders?

Also, as long as I am being nosey, what about leave behinds?

Share with the group.

[tim]

Mine's on my website... though I don't have a formal portfolio yet, and i'll probably do a print version if I start trying to sell my services.

[Tom W]

I guess I'm not alone. ;)

[Tom W]

I serve them atop a small light table.

Any garnishment or is that considered passe these days?

[CappuccinoDavid]

Well it depends on type of photography your in. Now days you can send them on CDs, or take your notebook (laptop) with you and show them as a picture show. And after a shoot you can show the models what was done.

[Big_B]

Its interesting to see how the voting has been shaping up. I wonder if anyone can provide photographic evidence of their claims?

[Steve Parr]

Mine isn’t an attache’, per se, but it’s close. It’s more of a book with clear pages.



While I do carry it with me (keep it in the van), my website has many more images than I would ever want to carry with me. I refer people there, as well…



Steve

[Barb42]

I have different sizes and types, as well as CD and on-line (which is casual right now, but a proper website is coming). You need different portfolios for the different uses.

[PhotosGuy]

Barb has the right idea. I have 16X20"s mounted on 20X25" black art board, 4x5 transparencies mounted on black art board, 35mm slides in sheets of 20, pics on CDs, pics on the web so I can email a fast link, & I'd tatto them to my nether regions if that's what the AD wanted to see.

[Longwatcher]

None of the above.....

I use web pages (www.longwatcher.com)
and print out 8.5x11 and put them behind plastic sleeves in a 1/2" 3-ring binder.

I also keep an annual portfolio for my best of which is a 1" binder of the years best shots. Looking at 2000 versus 2005, I am definately getting better.

I do have a small number of 13x19" prints that are mounted lying arouns my house.

Just what I do. But then I just take pictures of models with few clothes on (if any).