<p>Okay, so I love photography. I've taken all the classes my HS offers, and I plan on joining the Photog club in college. From all of my photography so far, I've got an entire black plastic binder thingy full (I mean FULL) of negatives, and then a seperate binder FULL of contact sheets. Is it worth it to bring these things with me to college or should I just leave them at home? Have you ever needed any of your old negatives? Have you ever felt as though you needed to "proove" your skills by showing old work? Along with photog club I'd like to take the advanced photog class in college, so I'm wondering if I'll be able to just show the department my skills, or if they'll want to see old work before they even let me in the darkroom. I dont plan on majoring or even minoring in art, but I deffinetly have an active interest in learning more about photography.</p>
<p>I'd bring some of your favorites but certainly not all... and I wouldn't bring the contact sheets at all. I like photography but I'm not sure if I want to bring my camera. I'm definitely going to bring my digital but I'm not sure about my SLR... I did alot of portraiture and some macro photography and I don't see myself doing this on a regular basis in college. A club would be fun, though... I hadn't thought about that!</p>
<p>I think it would be a good idea to take a few of your best, and maybe make sure you have a wide variety.</p>
<p>That's a good idea--maybe I'll take some of my color prints and a couple B&W's. Color should be enough if I have to "proove" skills.</p>
<p>I'm surprised you don't have slides for a portfolio. But in lieu of that, a few color prints and black and whites ones should do the trick. I'm gonna bring my favorite negatives for fooling around on...</p>
<p>haha, yeah, I'm kind of surprised I don't have slides too. It was the only thing holding me back from submitting for the AP, I just HATE making slides. I think I just find it really detailed and completely uninteresting, and so I have like 10 slides of early work when I was learninghow to make them, but yeah. no slides for me :) maybe I'll bring like 5 plastic sheets of negatives along with the prints.</p>
<p>I love photography. We did it in art class (gr.12). So addictive...</p>
<p>Just take a few and make a portfolio. You won't need all your pics, and you probably won't be asked to "prove" yourself unless you're trying to sell yourself to a campus magazine/newspaper or try to get into higher level photo classes.</p>
<p>I would definately take the negatives.. you never know if you need one for something. I know when I was making prints with two negatives at once i wished i had one that i had left at home.</p>
<p>A little background: My dad is a former professional photography who is looking to return to the profession, as it certainly beats his regular job. Without remembering a particular chronology, he got a "Brownie Box" at a young age and started shooting quite a lot. He then joined the Navy and was literally given a whole freaking locker full of film and told to go have some fun - he became the main photographer for the 5th Naval Fleet in Vietnam and took the first shot of some type of jet taking off from an aircraft carrier.</p>
<p>He got me into it! We shoot ALL digital. The cameras are more expensive, but we are amateur photojournalists so we need to take A LOT of shots and the cards are inexpensive compared to film.</p>
<p>I won't go into anymore detail unless you need it.</p>