Portfolio Analysis

1. Name of photographer - Justin Mott
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- Stories, pictures from travels
 List three problems that the judges noted with the portfolio - Don't intentionally go out of focus, Show full faces and bodies, Learn how to build a portfolio better.
 List two things the judges like- Nice quality photos, and good point of view
What is your overall impression of the photographer? What did you like or not like?

I liked these photos, and I think he was smart to take pictures of things that are hard to touch subjects on.

 Name of photographer - Sam Adams

 General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- sports (BMX biking)

 List three problems that the judges noted with the portfolio - Too many silhouettes, Be careful with unneeded things in the pictures, and make the subject more obvious.

 List two things the judges like- Pictures have good mood, some nice settings

 What is your overall impression of the photographer? What did you like or not like? I think some of these photos are really goos, or had the potential of bring really good, but they still need to make adjustments and have a lot of things to watch out for.

 Name of photographer - Jordan Murph

 General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- Sports and stories

 List three problems that the judges noted with the portfolio - Get more detail, Don't go to posed action shots, get real action, and get full faces

 List two things the judges like- Good emotion in some moments, and some nice compositions

 What is your overall impression of the photographer? What did you like or not like? I agree with the judges completely, in that his pictures started off really strong, but as he went on with the stories his photos just got worse and worse. If he hadn't included the stories he would've had a really strong portfolio.

2.  What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it? The judges noted that he got good emotion shots, he didn't get too much in the picture, and he was very creative with his shots

 What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses? For his strengths, I thought his pictures all had good composition, and very good lighting and detail. As for weaknesses, the only thing that didn't completely appeal to me was the birds eye view group swimming photo because it was very busy and was hard on my eyes.

Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner.

The judges chose their top 4 portfolios that they thought were the best, than narrowed it down from their. They chose the true winner from the amount of "clunkers" or bad photos a portfolio had, and how appealing the portfolios were.

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