Portfolio Analysis

1)   Travis Haughton’s 2006 Portfolio

1a) Travis Haughton

1b) There really isn’t a focus he took pictures of everything.

1c) Some of his pictures weren’t very good quality, he used too much Photoshop on some pictures, and he also didn’t hit a point with some of his pictures.

1d) His sport pictures were taken at a great angle and the gymnastics picture that he took he had lots of girl doing different things in the frame.

1e) I didn’t like most of his photo because he didn’t use a lot of angles or different strategies but I did like some of the color in his pictures.

2)   Melissa Golden’s 2006 Portfolio

1a) Melissa Golden

1b) Kids

1c) Most pictures were taken too close to the subject, some photos were out of focus, the action shots were taken as the subject was leaving the frame.

1d) The dirt poof of one of the softball pictures and  the lines she used in thepicture of the tight roper.

1e) I didn’t like some of her pictures because they were really close and you couldn’t see some of the things in the picture fully, but there was one picture that I really liked and it was of an old man with a breathing tube and he was looking off into the distance and he looked so sad and the lighting on his face was perfect.

3)   Nick Adams’ 2006 Portfolio

1a) Nick Adams

1b) Sports and Activities

1c) Pictures were taken to close, subject of kids with disadvantages is too overused, pictures don’t have any meaning without the caption.

1d) the photographer took a lot of black and white pictures that the judges like but didn’t do good as singles.

1e) I like some of his pictures but his pictures cut off the subject sometimes but I liked the colors of some of them.

4)   Winning Portfolio Dustin Snipes

2a) He got in the mind set and place of one of the players in his sport pictures.

2b) His strengths in this portfolio were he new how to take action shots and knew how to get in the place of one of the people doing the sport.

5)   Recap Picking the Winner

They choose the winner by the portfolio overall and how the stories were as a whole instead of picking individual photos.

Part Two- Individual Images

1)    I agree with the first Action picture because there’s not much to it and the whole picture is blurry but the judges have very different opinions on it but I agree with the first judge that there’s nothing really special about it.

2)    I disagree with the judges on the picture of all of the runners because they said that the frame was too big but I think it would have looked weird if he cut any of the girls out of the frame.