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Printed Portfolio - Orientation Opinion
Analogue_Rob:
Hi All,
I am a unit stills photographer and I am starting to get together my printed portfolio i'm pretty clear about what I want but have a few questions. It's obviously a very personal thing, but I welcome others opinions, I am getting a Hartnack and Co hidden screwpost made and I want to use Hahnemuhle pre scored double sided paper.
Now I have some questions, As I will be displaying a mixture of portrait 10x8 ratio, landscape 4x6 ratio and panorama's do you think it's better to have a square paper where everything is in the same orientation but there will be a lot of white space on the panoramic shots and the image much smaller, or do you think it is permissible to have different orientations on A3 paper to minimise whitespace and get larger images. I don't love the idea of potential clients having to spin the portfolio around back and forth but I also want the images to have as much impact as possible.
I'm also trying to decide between 276gsm and 220gsm, I'm hoping I can get hold of a sample or see some in London, does anyone know where in London or Brighton I can check this paper out?
Many thanks!
Rob
Mark D Segal:
Books are published using both approaches. I think it really is a matter of what you think works best for the photos. Except for one very famous professional photographer, no-one I've shown prints to has complained about the need to re-orient the media. One approach that makes it more convenient is to gather the portrait and landscape photos into one sequence each so there is only a need to turn the media once making the transition say from portrait to landscape, but that doesn't always suit the logic of a photographic story-line, so again "it depends".
Analogue_Rob:
Thank You Mark,
It is helpful to know that it doesn't bother most people you have come across. I feel the story-line of images needs to follow project by project rather than orientation. It's probably a matter of doing lots of experimenting within the software and then printing tests for layout on cheaper paper before printing for portfolio.
A3 would probably work better for panoramas anyway.
Many thanks,
Rob
elliot_n:
I've never seen a bound portfolio where portrait format and landscape format photographs are in different orientations.
The most common solution is to have a portrait format book, with the portrait format images as single pages, and the landscape images as double page spreads. Another approach is to have a landscape format book (say A3), with the landscape format images as single pages, and the portrait format images as two per page. With this approach, you could consider dropping the idea of double-sided printing.
Mark D Segal:
--- Quote from: elliot_n on August 28, 2016, 01:31:55 pm ---I've never seen a bound portfolio where portrait format and landscape format photographs are in different orientations.
The most common solution is to have a portrait format book, with the portrait format images as single pages, and the landscape images as double page spreads.
--- End quote ---
Well I have. I just grabbed one from my library - for example, "Japan with Korea and Formosa" by F.M. Trautz, "Orbis Terrarum" series published by Atlantis Verlag Zurich/Berlin, undated but the series dates from the 1920s, so nothing new here.
Making landscape photos as double page spreads, you are correct - is very common, but actually poor book design because of the break in the photo it creates and the often imperfect alignment/fusion between the two pages. The high class way of doing this, practiced by some high-end publishers especially mid-20th century was to print the landscape photos as gate-folds (I also have a sampling of those and they really do justice to the photos). But this carries extra cost (reflected in the book price), and here the reader needs to be careful to fold the page back to its original position so as to avoid unwanted creasing of the fold-out portion.
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