I’ve been working on assembling my first real portfolio in a long time. I had a portfolio back in highschool when I was spending twenty or thirty hours a week doing newspaper and yearbook photography. That portfolio is long gone, which is probably for the best, so I’ve been working on assembling a new one. Originally this was going to be part of my Salt application, but I’ve put that on the back burner for a while.

I’m kind of taking a shot in the dark on how to do this, but I’m betting that showing work in a single theme is more representative in some ways than showing a whole bunch of different things, so I settled on showing class room photos from my six months in Korea. Choosing from the hundred or so available proved to be the most difficult part of the task, until I started asking for feedback. Ask ten people to pick out the weakest photo in a set and you’ll be lucky to get the same answer twice unless you’ve included some incredibly awful shots. For example the shot below has already been identifying as both the strongest and the weakest shot in the group.



Keeping that in mind, I’m soliciting comments from a number of different online communities. You can see the rough edit and make comments over on Flickr. I’ve also embedded the slideshow in the photo essays section of this site.

Embedding the slideshow was surprisingly trivial. I haven’t used Flickr much, but I’ve been toying around with it as a place to put things that might be kind of transitory. The overhead is low in comparison to creating galleries on my site, and the ability to embed slideshows gives me the best of both worlds. It took a little poking around google to figure out how to embed a slideshow based on a pre-defined set, but I eventually found the syntax for it here. To build an embedded slideshow based on tags or group/user id, check out this nifty tool.