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Which Is Best For Your Portfolio B/W Or Color ?

 
 
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Date: 2007-04-10 10:42
Which is a better choice for a model when he or she is creating a portfolio ?

Choose black and white photos or color shots for showing !

In this digital age should photos be stored on dvds when models are

showing their book.

fairydreams
fairydreams
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Date: 2007-04-10 10:48
Both... a mix is always good :)

Why have a portfolio on DVD? Prints look better + why not Blu-Ray or HD-DVD :)
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Larry F.
Larry F.
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Date: 2007-04-10 11:44
Should have both...shows better.

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Date: 2007-04-10 11:48
Yeah, both kinds are good.

Craig Fletcher
Craig Fletcher
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Date: 2007-04-10 11:50
I think black and white is better. Black and white photos normally grabs the attention of people
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Cindy Hui
Cindy Hui
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Date: 2007-04-10 14:36
Yes both are needed to show diversity in your porfolio.
Sometimes black and white are better sometimes color, depending on what type of shot it is and the background.
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Adi Rasid
Adi Rasid
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Date: 2007-04-10 22:51
I thought portfolio is suppose to show all kind of shots. Best is that it show's that one can do almost anything in the world. B&W, Color, Natural, Touched (probably clients need to know how can your photos be touched). In terms of medium.. i'd say i's mandatory for one to have printed portfolio to show.. and CD's to be given away if necessary. Previously.. DVD is not adviseable as some people doesn't read DVDs. Nowadays.. not so sure.

Simon's Photography
Simon's Photography
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Date: 2007-04-11 03:07
Like has been said a mixture of both B&W and colour would be best so as to show diversity. I think Adi said it best when he said that your portfolio should show that you can do anything. You just need to be careful with B&W because while most photos will look ok in colour some will look really bad in B&W

fairydreams:

Why have a portfolio on DVD? Prints look better + why not Blu-Ray or HD-DVD :)


Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are both relatively new technologies and quite expensive for the burners and not a lot of people will have the ability to play them either so suggesting something like that isn't really a good idea just yet in my opinion.

Putting your pictures on a website or CD is a good idea though because again it shows diversity and while you would still hand up some printed photos, having them online or on CD allows you to hand over more that the person can look at if they wish, but they don't take up a load of space on their desk/filing cabinet.
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Date: 2007-04-17 11:28
so i gather, a combo of all three styles is good for your portfolio !!!!!

Simone Wong
Simone Wong
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Date: 2007-09-29 09:04
mix mix mix
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Date: 2007-09-30 03:14
Both black&white and colored are good. :thumbup:

Carib Goodies
Carib Goodies
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Date: 2007-09-30 04:11
Nice opinions.

Now, from the perspective of someone who has worked with model agencies for 25 years...

Black and white does not do diddly squat for you in helping get you recruited. Who is impressed by black and white? The new age people who were not forced to grow up with it.

25 years ago black and white shooting was the norm when half tone screens could not easily discern red from black, dark hued blues from black, light greens from yellow and light shade from white. Remember neutral density filters? Yeah...I thought not.

Then soft-dot grey half tone screens came along and editorial photographers were like "Hallelujah"! And tossed aside the extra two hernia-enabling cameras. It was one for black and white film, another one or even two for different ASA/ISO color films and one for color transparency. Soft dot screens meant we could finally shoot everything in color and not worry about loss of grey tones and contrast when converting over to black and white for newsprint or magazine publishing.

The world was safe and finally accurate color rendition and translation reigned. Color printing prices dropped significantly...from over $300 per color separation to under $10 in less than two years.

Then some idiot decided that black and white was artistic, totally puzzling everyone in the industry who understood that art has nothing to do with the medium. But we got over our puzzlement quickly and instead started laughing out loud rolling on the floor. Who gives a horse's rear caboose whether or not you can take a picture in black and white? In the old days, sepia-tone or even solarization was cool. (Think the movie 300 if you don;t know what sepai-tone or solarization is.) Today, black and white seems cool. Click a drop down menu item in Photoshop and Woila! You are "artistic". Bah, humbug. Oh! Add a dash of color to a small area off the black and white image and you are doubly cool! Double Bah, humbug!

Bottom line: Will having a black and white photo help you get signed by an agency? The answer is a resounding NO!

I see models adding black and white images to their portfolios thinking they will help. However, the one type of photo that can help the most almost no one includes in their ports...the ubiquitous Polaroid/Snapshot!

Yes. people that helps you the most. I could care less how you look in make-up. Make up is a lie. Agencies need the truth. Embarrassed to be photographed without make-up? Well, there is no room for embarrassment in this industry. Jurgita helps immensely by giving you the option of keeping Polaroid/Snapshots private from the general public. Use that feature and add this very important element to your ports.

I do believe that a lot of the confusion over ports begins with a basic misunderstanding of the various genres of the modeling industry. Glamour modeling and commercial modeling are like apples and oranges. A model specializing in commercial modeling can do glamour once in a while, no problem. However, it is rare that a glamour model makes the jump to commercial work. Why? Because the commercial industry tends to be very, very conservative and cautious about the moral sensitivities of the bulk of the customers.

If you want to do glamour...sure, mix it up...because in glamour photography, to get gigs, the goal is to show that you can get an audience horny. It's a meat show with your body on parade so you will want to show off all your various aspects and get hired by photographers and tabloids.

But in the commercial world the photographers do not do the hiring and there is an established matrix for determining viability of a model for generating sales.

I do do not know what color you skin tone is in black and white. It is a pig in the poke. Useless. This goes the same for the fashion world. Not much clothing gets sold in black and white and, bottom line, the job of a fashion model is to sell clothing.

But, I am probably bashing my head against a brick wall and shouting at deaf ears. So, go ahead...use the 90 seconds granted you for an agency interview by pestering them with black and whites. The yawning will be profound and the "Next!" positively resounding.
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Usman Ahmad
Usman Ahmad
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Posts: 105
Date: 2007-09-30 12:54
a mix...is perfect..

although it really depends on the picture, some look amazing in black and white, and some..in color.:)


but all pictures being black and white is not good either...

Rachel Clark
Rachel Clark
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Posts: 43
Date: 2007-10-04 16:55
Hi
Well i have a serpiar picture as my default picture cos i really like it, i didnt really like the original but i thought it looked amazing after. Wheras i wouldnt do it to too many of my photos i think one or two it really adds an interesting aspect to the photo and can change it from a plain photo to a good photo :embarassed: It really just depends on what the photo is trrying to achieve, now my next comment is personal opinion so nobody start whinging please but i think the lack of colour on my picture gives a really good sense of deep thought on my behalf. I feel its due to the lack of colour that the picture works how it does, so in summary i generally think that black and white is good for pictures where you are not trying to show your looks but a state of mind or emotion instead. :lol:
Rachel
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Oluwaseun Adegoke
Oluwaseun Adegoke
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Posts: 280
Date: 2007-10-05 09:07
one can never dispose the effect of true colors i think i would rather have my port in colours or slightly disaturated but not all in black and white. if you know what i mean
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