Search and Edit and Arrange, Oh My!
I'm hip deep in photos right now as I get a new portfolio together for my rep to show around. It's not a pretty sight. In slogging through my collection I am a bit overwhelmed. Add to that the task of pairing up images in spreads. Unlike the web, a portfolio is an actual 11x14 book where images sit side by side. Its important for those images to play will together. While I'm no stranger to laying out images, it's super time consuming nonetheless.
One of the nice things about my mundane diptychs is that each photo talks to the other. They are created with that dialogue in mind. Most of my portraits however, aren't made that way. So now I'm sitting looking at images wondering how in the world to arrange them. Complicating the whole deal is that most of my celebrity portraits are horizonal and the book is vetical. Yuk!
Last night I stumbled into this Streetstudio pairing that I really like. I made the image on the left last week in San Antonio and the other in Laos last February. It was just a "happy accident" that they fell next to each other in the process.
So that's what I'm doing. I thought I'd share.
Jury duty should end tomorrow.
Take pictures.
One of the nice things about my mundane diptychs is that each photo talks to the other. They are created with that dialogue in mind. Most of my portraits however, aren't made that way. So now I'm sitting looking at images wondering how in the world to arrange them. Complicating the whole deal is that most of my celebrity portraits are horizonal and the book is vetical. Yuk!
Last night I stumbled into this Streetstudio pairing that I really like. I made the image on the left last week in San Antonio and the other in Laos last February. It was just a "happy accident" that they fell next to each other in the process.
So that's what I'm doing. I thought I'd share.
Jury duty should end tomorrow.
Take pictures.
1 comments:
you know, i've always been a fan of the 2 page spread, full bleed. Might be a way to deal with images that don't want to play nice with each other. Particularly your horizontal crops.
But i ain't telling you what to do. I'm just saying.
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