National Portfolio Day

Last saturday I went to National Portfolio Day at the Hynes Convention Center. I put together a possible portfolio to show the colleges their. The first college I saw was Monserrat. The guy who looked at my portfolio said that my photos were on the surface of whatever my focus for the pictures was. He told me to investigate my photos more and spend more time with my subject and figure out all the possible ways i could explore taking photos of a single subject whether it be architecture, interior architecture, lights, or landscapes.

The next college that I visited while I was there was Mass Art. Unfortunately for me I was not able to understand everything that the reviewer was saying, however he said that it was a good thing that I was doing dark room photographs, because there were so many digital photo submissions. He said that I just needed to add more to my portfolio and it would be good. He also asked if I had seen the Edward Weston exhibit at the MFA. I told him that i had and he seemed to think that Weston would be a good photographer for me to look at. I asked him if I should submit anything different than what I had there, he just said that I also had to submit five drawing from observation and that I could get in. (Ask my mom for greater details).

Then I went to go see if Drexel would look at mine, however there was only one representative there and she was taking an extremely long time. I waited half an hour before giving up on her because there were still ten people in front of me and only three had gone by in the half hour.

The last college I visited was SMFA. Erica H. Adams looked at my portfolio and asked me many questions about when I started photographing, what art I liked, if i had ever visited the school. She made many comments on my photos. Then she looked at my sketch books and said that I had completed one of the assignment that a teacher had given to his students. She said that I had a good portfolio, but it needed more and that i should take more time in what I do. She laughed when she saw the photogram of the billow pad because she didn't know what it was at first, and when she asked; she laughed because she was amazed that she hadn't seen someone do this type of photogram before.