I decided to start my research on paper based and digital portfolios by first looking at a digital portfolio. One artist who came into the college to do a talk was a photographer called Sam Cornwell, he took us through his digital portfolio.
I wanted to think about why his portfolio was digital and not paper based. One of the biggest advantages of a digital portfolio is the accessibility of it. It is easy to send out to employers or people wishing to view it. It is digital so it can easily be send to someone via email or put on a USB and accessed that way. Another reason is unlike a paper based portfolio there is more than one, it is easy to dispatch without spending money on paper to print. It is also instant, you might have to wait a few days for a paper port folio to be sent by mail or spend money on travel to bring it to the person wishing to view it. With a digital portfolio one click and it is sent!
I went onto Sam Cornwell's page and found out his portfolio is on his web sight.
( http://samcornwell.photography/ )
I know a lot of artist do this now on the internet and i can see a lot of advantages of doing this. Again accessibility and advertising your skills as an artist. It also gives you a bit of freedom to look through his work at your own pace. But on the other hand is this not making it very easy for people to steal your work and say it is there own.
There are ways around this by watermarking the photograph. Also if copied off the internet it looses its resolution. If i printed the image above it would print out blurry/ pixelated. But if also storing digitally could you use this as your own? maybe another disadvantage.
while i was looking at his portfolio online i came across his photograph of "tacky red cameras"
I remembered him telling us that he had made a sculptor of the cameras he used in clear tubes. This lets you get a close up of all the cameras he used.
This made me think about if it matters what kind of portfolio a photographer uses, dose it matter if it is digital or not? at first i thought no, its photographs so it dose not really matter because they look the same, but then i thought do they? dose having images on a wall change the feeling of the photography? dose the layout of the photographs on a wall make a difference? i think it dose.
Although there are a lot of benefits to having a digital portfolio, i cant help but think that having something real in front of you, on a wall gives you a completely different feel for a piece of art. I think it makes something feel more real, it gives you a bigger understanding of what you are looking at on a lot of different levels, for one, i didn't think it would be this big, i didn't think that would matter being a photograph but now i think i was wrong.
One thing with having the camera's on display is that its almost interactive, is this another thing that is important? to feel like you are part of the image? or able to be more up close with it?. Dose having something on a wall make it feel more real and this helping you connect with it more? i think so.
I also think having art in the flesh, so to speak, makes you feel a sense of discovery. to walk around, spot something and go up to it makes you feel, or me feel, like i have discovered something myself in a way. and i think with a digital portfolio this is something you don't get the same feel for.
I wanted to think about why his portfolio was digital and not paper based. One of the biggest advantages of a digital portfolio is the accessibility of it. It is easy to send out to employers or people wishing to view it. It is digital so it can easily be send to someone via email or put on a USB and accessed that way. Another reason is unlike a paper based portfolio there is more than one, it is easy to dispatch without spending money on paper to print. It is also instant, you might have to wait a few days for a paper port folio to be sent by mail or spend money on travel to bring it to the person wishing to view it. With a digital portfolio one click and it is sent!
I went onto Sam Cornwell's page and found out his portfolio is on his web sight.
( http://samcornwell.photography/ )
I know a lot of artist do this now on the internet and i can see a lot of advantages of doing this. Again accessibility and advertising your skills as an artist. It also gives you a bit of freedom to look through his work at your own pace. But on the other hand is this not making it very easy for people to steal your work and say it is there own.
There are ways around this by watermarking the photograph. Also if copied off the internet it looses its resolution. If i printed the image above it would print out blurry/ pixelated. But if also storing digitally could you use this as your own? maybe another disadvantage.
while i was looking at his portfolio online i came across his photograph of "tacky red cameras"
I remembered him telling us that he had made a sculptor of the cameras he used in clear tubes. This lets you get a close up of all the cameras he used.
This made me think about if it matters what kind of portfolio a photographer uses, dose it matter if it is digital or not? at first i thought no, its photographs so it dose not really matter because they look the same, but then i thought do they? dose having images on a wall change the feeling of the photography? dose the layout of the photographs on a wall make a difference? i think it dose.
Although there are a lot of benefits to having a digital portfolio, i cant help but think that having something real in front of you, on a wall gives you a completely different feel for a piece of art. I think it makes something feel more real, it gives you a bigger understanding of what you are looking at on a lot of different levels, for one, i didn't think it would be this big, i didn't think that would matter being a photograph but now i think i was wrong.
One thing with having the camera's on display is that its almost interactive, is this another thing that is important? to feel like you are part of the image? or able to be more up close with it?. Dose having something on a wall make it feel more real and this helping you connect with it more? i think so.
I also think having art in the flesh, so to speak, makes you feel a sense of discovery. to walk around, spot something and go up to it makes you feel, or me feel, like i have discovered something myself in a way. and i think with a digital portfolio this is something you don't get the same feel for.
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