Portfolio Analysis

1. Alyssa Schukar’s 2006 Portfolio:

a) Alyssa Schukar

b) Stories about sadness

c) Pictures were of a certain distance, not up close and personal. Can’t feel love or pain n any of the pictures. Not enough strong signals.

d) They like the picture of the guy sweeping. The position of the photos

e) I didn’t really like these photos, I feel like anyone could have taken them. I thought they could have tried to capture more of the pain in some of the photos.

Josh Birnbaum’s 2006 Student Portfolio:

a) Josh Birnbaum

b) Funny and happy pictures

c) Wish the guys eyes were open. Got closer to people. Take different angle for photos. Bad transition between two photos. Secondary photos.

d) They thought all the photos were funny. Took pictures at good moments.

e) I like these photos I think that the photographer took these photos at a good time. I also thought that these photos were really funny.

Melissa Golden’s 2006 Student Portfolio:

a) Melissa Golden

b) A lot of different things, not just one main topic

c) Bad pictures, doesn’t have a story behind it. Didn’t get photo at most important part of action. Power lines were in the way of picture, she should have moved somewhere to get a better shot.

d) Had a good portrait of old man. Had good portraits towards the end of the photo shoot.

e) I liked the photos at the end with the old people. Not towards the beginning, because it was just a bunch of jumbled photos.

2. Dustin Snipes 2006 Student portfolio:

a) good color, composition, shot at good angles, everyone is doing something in the photos, good set up portrait, creative

b) I think that he took all the pictures from a really cool angle. Also, the one portrait that he took, he put a lot of thought into it, and it looked really cool. I think that he could have made some of his pictures less blurry than they really were.

3. Contest Recap:

a) They all talked about how they felt about each photo. They listen to each other’s ideas. If the photographer put together a really good portfolio.

Part 2- Individual Photos:

1) I agree with one of the photographers on the very first photo, I thought it was beautiful how the light was coming into the photo. The photo of the girl throwing her tennis racket in the air is a beautifully taken photo, with a lot of emotion in it.

2) I don’t agree with the pictures in Part 4. I think that the pictures could have been better. They weren’t as amazing as the judges said.