Reply To: Not A Fauxtog (I hope), Not Yet A Pro

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@tealgreen1985: Thanks for your positive notes on my portraits. I do agree though, that I need to watch the horizon line. Sometimes I am very OCD about that, but unfortunately not on the photos I posted. And I am guilty of instagramming – the sunset photos and dog photos on my timeline are all from instagram. I have always liked filters like that, though. But I don’t want to be a fad photographer, so maybe I will tone it down.

@@Worst Case: I do shoot manually, and sometimes on aperture priority as well! Perhaps I need to work harder though. It never occurred to me that my photos were so…vanilla and heavily filtered. And I do get into ruts every once in a while, so I will definitely take your advice and find more interesting people and subjects to photograph! I like my style, but I think I need to branch out.

Thank you both for the feedback. You made me think and consider my style. I am going to start being more selective of what I post and focus more on my work first, photoshop actions second (they’re my addiction). I started out using photoshop long before I got into photography, so I can see how I have been getting carried away. There is nothing better than a great photo SOOC.