thephotoroom
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So I've been behind the camera for a few years and now I want to start hanging some work. I've asked some local coffee shops and custom framing places to show some stuff and they are always enthusiastic about it and ask to see my portfolio
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Well ..I don't have one. I went to my local camera shop and they didn't have anything! They recommended I go to a store over an hour away and expect to spend $400!
I dont know about you, but if I was shooting pictures of Jay-Z and Beyonce' I could justify spending that much. But there has got to be a better way to go about this.
I looked online and they had some 8x10 books with plastic sheets to drop photo's in but I thought that was a little cheesy? I also have seen people with a box of matted prints but that doesn't seem fun to look through.
Now a binded book of matted prints seems pretty cool to me, but I don't think I'm gonna find that!
So to make a long story short . Where do I start when assembling my first portfolio? I have 22 shots all landscape orientation of varying style.
Thanks!
-Alex
Well ..I don't have one. I went to my local camera shop and they didn't have anything! They recommended I go to a store over an hour away and expect to spend $400!
I dont know about you, but if I was shooting pictures of Jay-Z and Beyonce' I could justify spending that much. But there has got to be a better way to go about this.
I looked online and they had some 8x10 books with plastic sheets to drop photo's in but I thought that was a little cheesy? I also have seen people with a box of matted prints but that doesn't seem fun to look through.
Now a binded book of matted prints seems pretty cool to me, but I don't think I'm gonna find that!
So to make a long story short . Where do I start when assembling my first portfolio? I have 22 shots all landscape orientation of varying style.
Thanks!
-Alex