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Building a Photography Portfolio

Learn to select, sequence and present a focused body of work.

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What you will learn

1. Explain the purpose of building a photography portfolio

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2. Apply a practical method to select, sequence and present a focused body of work

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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk

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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement

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Step-by-step practice

Step 1. Identify why building a photography portfolio matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to select, sequence and present a focused body of work.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Create a fifteen-image draft portfolio and remove any image that repeats another.
Safe and responsible practice: Keep untouched originals, document significant edits and confirm rights before publishing.

Practical activity

Complete and record this task

Create a fifteen-image draft portfolio and remove any image that repeats another.

Good-practice checklist

Original files remain untouched
Export settings match the destination
Complete the practical activity for building a photography portfolio
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant

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