 to include pictures of animals since they are not your main subject matter. While you are narrowing your audience, you should also work on defining your objectives. What is your final goal? Do you want to work for an advertising agency? Or do you want to be a freelance photographer? Or are you a fine art photographer? And so on.
There are many fields to aim for. Focusing on a specific goal will help you achieve your dream. Do research on the market you wish to enter. Find out what the customers or audience are looking for, and see how you can fit in. What can you bring to the table? How are your photos making you stand out?
Now that you have a goal in mind, this should help you gravitate towards achieving your goals. Many photographers build an extensive archive, that's why this can be a challenging process to start. It is ok to ask for some help along the way. Since you have identified the subject matter of your portfolio, it should be easier to go through your pictures, make the first selection and highlight your favorite shots. At this stage, your initial group of photos is still large.
Your final selection should be around 20 of your best images. There are different outlets to showcase your work: Websites, tablets, or print format, to name a few. Each medium has different needs, and you should take into consideration how people will view your work while choosing your photos. Each image that will end up in your final cut should be a clear representation of your skills and qualities. It should show your uniqueness and talents.
When going through your selection it is often difficult to distinguish between a good picture and one that you are emotionally attached to. It is important to look objectively at them and discard the ones that are not serving you and helping you hit your final goals.
This is a good time to ask for some help and see what other people think and suggest. They can be in the industry, such as other photographers, or professional curators.
However, don't be afraid to also ask friends and family, or people that could be your potential clients. They will give you suggestions based on what they want from a photographer. In the end, it's always wise to listen to anyone who could be your future client, whether it is a gallerist for fine art, or couples for wedding photography.
The more you go on, the tighter your selection will be, and this is a good sign. Now it's time to refine the top 20 images. With your objective in mind, think about each of your photos as a stand alone image. Is every single picture you chose a good picture?
Try to avoid repetitiveness and don't be afraid to cut those that are too similar. Are they strong enough to be an impactful image? They should provoke the viewer to be more and more convinced, after each image, that you have what it takes to complete the tasks. That's why at this final stage, you should not be afraid to have only your best photos.
Putting together a portfolio is not definitive. It can take years before you have a high quality portfolio. As your photographic practice evolves, your photos will reflect the progress that you are making. Don't hesitate to go back and add or remove pictures that are no longer fitting your aesthetic.
However, the process should always be the same. Choose your best quality shots, and don't be afraid to cut your darlings if they don't serve your purpose. Be focused on your audience and keep your goal in mind.
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We want to get true reactions from our community of our new scanning kit. Hear what experienced home scanner Lou Guarneri, a.k.a Sweet Lou Photography, has to say in his YouTube video and in our conversation.Hi Tomcat, having looked at a few other sites i think your initial figures could be in relation to 6th army only.
But thanks for the add on with the overall numbers lost in the operation.
Cant think of what you could be possibly on about..Irish and English....friends and comarades, brothers.....never a bad word between us...God Bless the Irish...God blessed the English...God help the Welsh...God loves a scots tryer.
Battles though...humiliating defeats....
Roman revenge on Bodicea....off she goes, burns the barracks in East Anglia, marches on Londinium....
Then goes and throws it all away in a mad charge on Druid hating Romans.
If only...Quick sweep round the rear...Romans massacred...no Cnut, William never even gets on his boat...and Hadrians wall not needed...Scots and Welsh join in big gang of Britons. All off to invaded the Vikings. quick side step to the right, march on Moscow. Head back west, pope abandons Rome. Sun on Cairos beaches, knock down a few pryamids, boat back home for tea.
Invent bnoculars, look west..whats that big thing in the water..We shall call it Britmerica. Make ready the fleet...
Most humiliating defeat....Romans beating Bodicea to a pulp.
With ancestors with names like Gunn and Billingsley I'd say Welsh and Scots mostly.....
Did my post just disappear?
edit: It did.
What I meant to say is that the 750,000 figure includes losses of the Axis Allies, not just the German.
"120,000 Romanians, 120,000 Hungarians, 120,000 Italians were killed, wounded or captured. 50,000 ex-Soviets Hiwis (local volunteers incorporated into the German forces in supporting capacities) were killed or captured by the Red Army."
Oh dear lord...another one....
Sluys 6/24/1340. The English and French meet in the Channel off Sluys near Bruges. The French are crushed at sea by the English. More Frenchmen died at Sluys than Agincourt, Waterloo or, Dein Bein Phu. The outnumbered English fleet captured 166 of 190 French vessels involved. It was a naval defeat that makes Trafalgar look lame by comparison. This victory paved the way for the English victory at Crecy six years later.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf for proportion of US Losses to Japanese losses.
The battle Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans, and around 6000 united Greeks along with the great victories by the Athenian Navy at sea, held back the might of the estimated 1,000,000 strong Persian Army.
Ah the advantages of a great army holding a great bottleneck, where numbers do not matter.
Attacking troops in defensive positions is always costly to the attacking forces if it goes wrong, and 2,000 casualties even in 18th/early century warfare is hardly classed much more than skirmish.
I can only wonder if Thermopylae is really mostly just a myth and these Spartans and Greeks were merely just a speed bump for the Persians in reality.
It is stated as Ancient History not as a Myth like Achilles and the Trojan Wars. Although the Persians did lose the battle of Thermopylae they casualties sustained by the Persian army were high for such a small area of battle especially in comparision to the number of Greek soldiers lost.
Furthermore the Perisans pushed past after 5 days of being held at Thermopylae where they then invaded the abondoned Athens, and continued to sack and eventually burnt the city to the ground. They then battled the Greek Allied states Armies, where best odds put the numbers as match as a 1-9 ratio in favour of the persians. The persians were defeated just like the last attempted invasion of Greece.
Greece at this time was considered to a super power with the best army of the time, the spartans were themselves considered to be the elite of the elite.
I doubt that it is simply mythology espceially since the Greeks themselves built a statue of the King Leonidous in memory of the battle, as well as there a records that Alexander the Great also paid tribute to the men that held the pass.
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