Let me preface this with this disclaimer: I am not a professional. No money changed hands with regards to these photos, unless you count the places I purchased the equipment.
These are pics taken at some get togethers with some friends of mine. Their kids always ask me if I brought my camera when we get there. If the answer is no, they are disappointed. My kids won’t let me get a decent shot no matter what I try. Theirs volunteer to be guinea pigs, so I go with it.
There’s one shot there that screams AMATEUR but the rest are great.
The mask shots are the weakest, as the masks, well, mask any interaction between the subject and the viewer. ( that made sense in my head! ) Apart from those the only problem is with the cropping of the two landscape portraits. Keep it up…….
But loose the shot of your camera!!!!! Only you think it’s important what kit you have.
Some eyes look kinda funky and over processed. ( Don’t do that!)
Try not to cut limbs off at wrists or chop off an elbow.
Remember your rule of thirds
Stop down a little bit and take a few steps back to get a little more sense of location and show the viewer whats going on on the scene. ( Not so much that it looks like a snap shot.)
In a couple of the shots the girl is wearing colored contacts. I don’t care for them, she likes them. She didn’t want to take them out. I don’t really do much post. Mostly just contrast adjustments. Thanks for the input.
Not bad, but I think you may fall for the “shooting gallery” mistake. Which is having the same pose for every person be the same. In other words, putting them in your crosshairs. May I suggest an experiment? Turn your camera upside down (hopefully your camera doesn’t auto-orientate) and start snapping photos upside down (just don’t see faces, but see shapes). Just a test.
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