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fstopper89
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I have to agree with IHF. You have A LOT of likes for someone who supposedly isn’t even in business. I looked through several of the portrait albums and most stuck out to me as snapshot-ish. There were a lot of white balance and underexposure issues, and a handful of images that were out of focus. You have quite a few images in each album. Your one family album has over 100 photos, many of which are the same pose. You should be weeding out the “bad” photos, like when a person was making an odd expression, and only editing and posting the select good ones. For me a typical family session might end up with 30 finished photos and that’s generous compared so some. The family photos had people wearing clothing that didn’t go together well or had distracting words or patterns. When you have a group, it’s important to consult with them on outfit choices or it will take away from the photo. I noticed some photos where the light was filtering through trees and creating spots of light on the people, or harsh bright areas on faces. It’s really hard on sunny days to avoid that, but you should have areas of complete shade (on a sunny day it will be plenty bright enough forĀ  good exposure but will block out harsh light) and/or use reflectors and fill flash to compensate. Some of your portraits had distracting background as well. When you have a large group to shoot you can’t really get the nice shallow depth of field that you can get with 1-3 subjects, but if you have a lens with a longer focal length that will help a little. Your subjects didn’t stand out against the background well in many of the shots.

You seem to have more of a niche with the animal photography. Do you enjoy that the best? Your animal images look a lot stronger than your human portraits.