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May 5, 2013 at 10:23 am #9454
cameraclicker
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DaddysGirl97, that’s quite the rant!  My view of Facebook does not find     Shelby Lynn’s Photography     and I don’t see a link to “This is my photo that I took of my cousin.” in your rant, above.  If my assumption is correct and Sideways Tracks on the main page here is the photo you are talking about, then unfortunately, many things are wrong, as has already been pointed out.  Your model is not posed to best advantage; train tracks have been done to death; a chair on the tracks?  Why?; your model is in shade but squinting, and the background is really bright; your model has “raccoon eyes”, which is to say they are in pretty deep shadow, almost black, while the rest of the face is much brighter; if the model’s pants are jeans, OK, my wife has denim pants in almost every colour, but if they are blue jeans, why are they black?

I’m running out of time, so enough about what’s wrong.

Are you even allowed to work at McDonald’s before you are 16?  You may be in the great position of having a summer free in another month and a bit.

Some things to do:

Open a Flickr account.  Facebook is not the platform for photos, and they have terrible terms as well as defective security.  Flickr is not ideal, but it is a better platform for photos and you can put up 200 for free.  The price is right!  Another photo sharing site is 500px, but they have higher standards.  Go there to look at the photos, try to emulate them.  Look at the light, and shadow.  Figure out where it falls and why.

Download and install GIMP.  You have time when school finishes to research how to use it.  There is a steep learning curve but it has Photoshop power and again, the price is right.

There are thousands of YouTube videos to help improve your photography.  Look at the ones by B&H Photo & The Grid.  Scott Kelby Training used to have a giveaway program, the first 20 or so to sign up just past mid-night got a day’s worth of free viewing.  The only cost was staying up late to sign up.  Check to see if you can still do that.

Got to go.  Good luck.