<p>D is beginning her art school applications (mostly independent schools, but a few state universities as well). Her portfolio is mostly b&w film photography, which is what she wants to study, and most of the schools want a digital portfolio from her. She knows what pieces she wants to submit.</p>
<p>Question: to submit her print images in digital form, should she scan the images or digitally photograph them?</p>
<p>Similar question for those few schools still requiring slides: should she shoot to slide film or scan and have converted to slides?</p>
<p>Sorry if there's an obvious answer, or if it's been covered here before. At present, it is unclear to us.</p>
<p>My daughter used a high quality scanner to scan her black and white film photos. Most of the schools wanted either a url or a cd of her photography portfolio.
Just curious, where is your daughter applying?
My daughter applied to quite a few art schools, one state school and a couple of out of state universities with good photo programs. Mostly in NY and NC.
We are just waiting on decisions now. Nerve-wracking...</p>
<p>You'll find many still want slides. My daughter shot with a digital camera, and had slides made at art competition slides (DIGITAL</a> SLIDES - ArtCompetitionSlides.com). We had excellent success with this service, good quality, good turn around time.</p>
<p>For black & white work that she developed herself with film (we have a darkroom), she scanned these at the highest resolution and edited them with Adobe CS-3, before converting to slides.</p>
<p>She also took three AP courses in high school (drawing, 2D and 3D), they all required slides in addition to a portfolio. So this was helpful here.</p>
<p>Some like SCAD and Ringling, want digitial files, so you need to be flexible.</p>