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AndyF
ParticipantNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Rail road tracks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! White vignette!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this is from your cover. Dare I go further?
Will someone please tell me what the hell is it with railroad tracks and potrait shots? I just don’t get it? Particularly sitting down on them? Ok, rail tracks can make a cool abstract landscape shot if done correctly, but what WTF goes through someone’s head when they are thinking about them for potrait work????
Participant“looooooool
Focusing the camera. So tuff.”
Yeah, but given the amount of blurred crap we get on here, you’d actually think it was tough wouldn’t you….
ParticipantFor truely awe-inspiring work I look towards 500px.com
That puts Flickr in the shade by miles and that’s saying something because there are some awesome photographers Flikr.
ParticipantI agree with Brownie on all points.
I like and dislike girls1 at the same time. I really want to like it but it’s just not quite right and Brownie is right- it’s the framing. It either needs to be closer, a more “head and shoulders” shot, or a 3/4 length portrait shot. At the moment it’s somewhere between the two.
Try a closer crop.
You’ve got the focus right on all but one.
All of them are pretty nice- would perhaps like to see some more smiles on the younger one though, or at least a happier expression!
Are you a fauxtog? Based on these 6, no, definitely not.
Participant“It’s possible, I didn’t look that hard.”
Obviously.
Participant“Eyes are motion blurred. Making progress though.”
That’s not motion blur. That’s DOF. Or rather lack of it.
Participant“Eyes are motion blurred”
Take another look.
ParticipantGreat stuff. Not sure about the taping up the pop-up flash bit though: that only tries to pop up in certain modes……. which I guess you shouldn’t be in unless you’re a phototog….
ParticipantWell TBH I’ve seen a LOT worse. I wouldn’t say there is anything majorly wrong, just a few things that need picking up on.
The vignetting is far too much on some images, and I’m not crazy about some of the PPing with the bleached look on a LOT of images.
And what is going on here?
You have lots of this image, but why on earth have you kept the distorted images? In fact, why on earth are they even on FB in the first place? Is it for the cover image? If so, why would you want this image as the first image your customer sees? I’d see it and go- oh dear, better look for another ‘tog.
Also, do you have the lighting to achieve this? (is this your image? I’d be inclined to say “no”)
This was taken using portable studio kit. Do you have this? And the skill to recreate what is in this image? If you do, then good for you. If not, you won’t be able to produce this image, so it’s false advertising.
Some images aren’t sharp and some don’t have the DOF they need to work (butterfly shot).
On the plus side, most of your images, IMO, are quite good, at least from a content and composition perspective. Maybe a little improvement work is needed, but personally I don’t see you being on this site with any of your work.
You certainly have some creativity that a lot of fauxtogs don’t
ParticipantTo be fair I’ve seen worse things done with wedding dresses, and that’s while the bride was wearing it!
ParticipantRight up your street then?
ParticipantOh for the want of a “like” button
Participantmeant to say I use a “fold up white balance card”
ParticipantDo you calibrate your monitor jasonjared (using hardware rather than software?), and same question to the OP?
I don’t see a WB issue in any of the images, they all seem fairly neutral, and I wouldn’t say any are too warm.
If you want to get the WB right in camera, you can always invest in a WB device and set custom WB. I usefol up WB “card”, but there are many on the market.
ParticipantDo you calibrate your monitor jasonjared?
I don’t see a WB issue either. WB appears to be fairly neutral, certainly not warm, and certainly not too warm.
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