Reply To: Hobbyist … start charging?

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Stef makes a good point about the black and white. It looks WAY  off to me. I am not sure exactly what it is, but it makes the images look really flat. I feel like the technique you are using is desaturation. And the angles, dear god…the angels. I feel like most of your images have the horizon shooting from one lower corner to the opposite upper corner. here’s an image i would probably have really enjoyed, except that it starts at the lower left corner instead of being level to any plane

http://magbeephotography.com/morrison/hc012859#hc012859

here’s another left corner (not one i particularly liked or anything, just example)

http://magbeephotography.com/deen/h5408d27#h5408d27

another

http://magbeephotography.com/deen/h2376d043#h2376d043

and another

http://magbeephotography.com/robello/h12b6fa09#h12b6fa09.

Images like this make me dizzy, i’m sure i’m not the only one. There than that, there are several badly composed shots (eye of the beholder, i’m sure). People end up smack in the middle of a shot, it’s almost like you are striving to fill the entire frame. Don’t be scared of negative space as long as the subject is correctly framed. Uhm…other than that….keep learning. Your images aren’t yanap worthy, and i think you’d have some luck being paid, but i don’t think you could be called legit for a long time.