I'd say 20ish at max, if you have that many super-strong images targeted to the needs of your audience/market.

Portfolios larger than 20 or so images are liable to create viewer fatigue, I've been taught.

I’m back from diving into work for a few days. How did your samples turn out?

I carry changes of clothes in the car. Assignments arrive as news breaks, and I can get pulled from a feature story and sent to a fire from a concert or fund-raiser.

I carry changes of clothes in the car. Assignments arrive as news breaks, and I can get pulled from a feature story and sent to a fire from a concert or fund-raiser.

Googlepix, Dropbox, even email in my type of business

A snowstorm in winter is generally a bigger issue than a summer rain, usually.

Use the soft light as fill and edge-light the vertices, use one light or individual spots. Try a soft metallic surface or maybe a color. Dulling spray? Increase the angles, 30 or 45? Shoot one at a time, budget permitting. Fire off one sample or more and show them the difference. You need highlight to make black blacker, contrast!

I shoot news, so weather is often the story.

If you intend to shoot makeup/beauty, factor in $$$ for an external flash and minibox for it.

Sure, the composition, good model, posing, lighting for that pose. It is a nice spiral from left, where our eyes generally enter the frame. My route is in at arm around across eyes, face, hair down and around. The nice arm triangle on the left side leads-frames & gets you into the shot, the face and eyes are a nice focal point to pause, well described, then the beautiful hair with an elegant s curve leads your eye around and back into the main point, her face and eyes. Her chin gets the lighting it needs to compliment/ balance on the rest of her face, too.
The composition on the second shot wastes the left, face is overpowered by neck wrinkles and disorganized hair, breasts are too low in composition to be as effective a focal point as they could be. I’d bet you have some other good out-takes if you re-edit.

I guess that located downtown they’re closer to the ‘office’ or station that distributes the cable throughout the district.

You’re welcome. It happens several times a month by me, Ron. Verizon says that all they can do is move me to another existing line, then that one fails. I live in the part of town by the hospital and university that has the oldest cable, pre-fiber optic, and the splices go bad, I’ve been told.

I like the price on the 70-200 f2.8 FL!

I like the price on the 70-200 f2.8 FL!