Reply To: Encouragement/Constructive criticism?

[stef]

I looked at several of your images, and found a few good ones. In your wedding shoot 3 years ago, there were a couple great shots, but a ton of shots were messed up with dutch angles. Tilty without a reason is just tilty… and looks bad. Some of your b/w processing was bad, but I’d expect you’ve improved a bit since then. You showed some fun initiative and that came through in many of your images and poses.

 

I also liked some of your artwork… a bit higher percentage than your photography.

 

You have a lot of stuff available, and it’d be very easy to pick out some good ones or some bad ones, but there’s not a good representative cross section. I couldn’t find anything with a sampling of what you consider your best images. You’re all over the place in skill. Some were really good. Some were really bad. Most were somewhere in the middle. But I only saw a single tilty shot you made that was actually good (in a frame house being constructed with interesting lines) … all the rest were ruined by strange angles.

 

Your stuff on facebook was not very good, and looks like you were shooting while standing in a canoe … only two horizons are straight. Plus, facebook isn’t a good place for a portfolio. The ring shot you have looks horribly out of focus, but downloaded it looks better.

 

My suggestion: Get better at critiquing your own work and composition. Break the rules only after you learn them. Release what you deem good, and put the best ones in a single folder. If you insist on using facebook, resize things for 720px long or less, and sharpen for screen.

 

You are a fauxtographer. Some study on composition can fix that.