{"id":8452,"date":"2021-07-22T22:13:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9d55db1d0c.nxcli.io\/?p=8452"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T19:29:04","slug":"the-photographers-portfolio-development-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/the-photographers-portfolio-development-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Photographer\u2019s Portfolio Development Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am happy to announce my next book, to be published by Rocky Nook next spring. I’m just beginning to edit the lessons, which were originally used for my BetterPhoto.com online course many years ago. I am so excited to be working with the excellent staff again.<\/p>\n

This book will teach you how to put your very best foot forward, developing portfolios that display your finest photos. I will cover the art of editing your images and developing thematic portfolios. You will learn how to focus on the subjects that most inspire you.<\/p>\n

The lessons are designed to illustrate a self-guided process of conceiving themes, editing new and previous work, and then developing a strong thematic portfolio ready for presentation. I taught this course for eight years, and I saw all students make good progress, and most students progressed remarkably during the sessions.<\/p>\n

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The Photographer\u2019s Portfolio Development Workshop: Learn to Think in Themes, Find Your Passion, and Edit Tightly<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
Rocky Nook, 2022<\/div>\n
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“Once a photographer has learned the fundamental techniques of photography\u2014the basics of exposure, composition, and focus\u2014their work often improves over the course of a few months or years. The world is full of wonders to photograph, and photographers can be pulled in many directions, excitedly chasing the light and the moment. This approach can certainly yield wonderful photographs, but over time the photographer\u2019s progress often begins to slow, and eventually, it can stop altogether. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The reason for this is simple: creativity begins with image-making, but true progress comes with learning to edit and organize your work in ways that reflect your unique style and perspective, ways that offer you insight into how you can improve your work moving forward. In short, the key to becoming the best photographer you can be is to create an ongoing portfolio (or multiple portfolios) of your work. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Based on an eight-week course taught by renowned photographer and author William Neill, The Photographer\u2019s Portfolio Development Workshop<\/i> provides the tools and skills you need in order to create a methodology that allows you to create a tightly edited portfolio of work, no matter your end goal: a box of prints, a book, an online presentation or website, or even a gallery exhibit. <\/span><\/div>\n
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A portfolio is simply a collection of photographs with a consistent theme and consistent quality. In developing such a body of work, you will learn what your specific passions are, find focus for your work, and begin the iterative process of creating better and better photographs over time. By constantly working within a \u201cfeedback loop\u201d\u2014where you carefully assess and edit your images, note and learn from mistakes, then go out and create more photographs\u2014you\u2019ll develop a portfolio that is constantly gaining in strength, quality, and impact. It\u2019s no surprise that you\u2019ll also become a much better photographer. <\/span><\/div>\n
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No matter the photographic genre you work in, this book will teach you to objectively assess your work on both technical and aesthetic levels, establish a personal standard of quality, focus your efforts on new work, and become a better photographer. The book features eight lessons, along with assignments at the end of each lesson to propel you and your work forward. Throughout, Neill uses his own photographs to illustrate the process he has used for years to create multiple portfolios and books.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/span><\/div>\n
Lesson 1: Find Your Focus<\/span><\/div>\n
Lesson 2: Thinking in Themes<\/span><\/div>\n
Lesson 3: Editing on a Technical and Aesthetic Level<\/span><\/div>\n
Lesson 4: Grouping by Quality<\/span><\/div>\n
Lesson 5: Adding New Work<\/span><\/div>\n
Lesson 6: Improving Your Portfolio<\/span><\/div>\n
Lesson 7: Where You Can Go From Here <\/span><\/div>\n
Lesson 8: Putting It All Together<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am happy to announce my next book, to be published by Rocky Nook next spring. I’m just beginning to edit the lessons, which were originally used for my BetterPhoto.com online course many years ago. I am so excited to… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscape-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PDW-Cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8456,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452\/revisions\/8456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}