So, here I am maybe two weeks away from receiving my iPad and wondering how useful it will be for displaying my own work. I’ve been giving some thoughts as to what I’d like to do with an iPad portfolio.

I was discussing this with Michael Prince who has been presenting his portfolio on the iPad for the past month or so and he’s sold on the idea. To paraphrase Michael, “pictures on the iPad just look better than they do on your monitor or your printed portfolio. One of the good features is just being able to hand the iPad over to an art director and letting them browse around your work, check out tearsheets, so they are driving it and looking at what interests them”

http://www.michaelprince.com/

For the record these are some of thoughts of other bloggers regarding this. I’ve not found many blogs by professionals who have actually used it so far, theres more speculation about it than fact. So if I find more written about this in future I’ll edit this post and add it later.

There is some reasonable discussion taking place among photographers and photo buyers whether or not the iPad can “replace” the printed portfolio.
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If you can deliver an exciting and beautiful experience to prospective clients using your iPad, you may not need printed work. If that’s not the case now, I believe it will be soon. Here’s why: It’s a better “experience” than just looking at a screen.

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flip89 wrote this at the Huffington Post

So what the hell good is it? Really depends on what you want to use it for. For me, I like to present my photography portfolio to my clients on the iPad. It’s not bulky to carry around, it adds a lot of ooomph to my presentation and certainly added interest to my clients. Everybody loves the interactivity – especially to someone who apologize all the time, “I am a computer illiterate” but once they experience holding and using it with their fingers … they’re hooked. It is a totally different experience and you really have to have a different mindset when using it because it is

This looks like a good way to get pictures onto the iPad from a computer

http://ipad.maccreate.com/2010/05/19/photo-transfer-app/

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