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Happy to offer what little wisdom I have!

 

Sounds like you’re on a good path!

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Doesn’t work for me, just sends me to the facebook homepage.

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no one special hit a home run there with his comment. You got to challenge yourself to grow as a photographer. you can’t just navigate the rut of mediocrity and expect to be a talented photographer.

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which doesn’t mean you can’t or haven’t produced a nice photograph, there’s just no understanding of why it works.

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I agree with jaredjason and no one special.

I saw this last night but didn’t have the heart to say anything,

 

The fact that you have such an obsession with equipment shows you don’t understand the craft.

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This is great: http://www.flickr.com/photos/85176036@N07/7802021414/in/photostream

It caught my attention immediately when I clicked your link. As well as being pretty technically sound, the subject is great. Her emotion is great, you can feel that. The monochrome pictures of both girls are very technically sound.

The tonality is nice, and the only thing I’d be tempted to do is how they are positioned in the frame, the top of the frame is left pretty wide open and I feel personally that it could’ve been stronger if the subject took up more of the frame.

 

As for everything else, it’s okay. The focus in c1 seems a bit off, K1 is technically solid but doesn’t do anything for me, the framing in girls1 is a little off for my taste, and 3 is technically solid and it’s kind of interesting, so that’s a plus.

 

Now in commercial photography, photographs don’t have to be interesting to anyone else but the client but if someone else can look at a photograph where they have no connection with the people involved and feel an emotional connection with the people in the photograph, that’s when you know you’re on a different path than just smiles.

 

And technically, all of your photographs look pretty nice, the only thing was the shallow focus that missed in C1, but everything looks pretty nice. You seem to have a very good grasp of that.

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link doesn’t work.

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The last one you posted, fauxtography, is just an on camera flash making it look like a snapshot in a family album, and the first one is really strange kind of lighting. Her nose has no definition to it, and everything around her BUT her eyes is lit.

 

It looks like there was a light to her right and a light to her left and she used a flash which gives us those cheek shadows. I’m no authority on studio lighting so don’t take my word for it.

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It really does. it’s the same thing with Auto focus too

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Whenever a camera can outperform an 8×10 view camera, I will definitely say film is dead. Until then…

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Generally, people let their camera do all the thinking. They go into Auto or No Flash to do their shooting. I did sports photography for about two years and what I would do is I would see what my camera wanted to do in one of those modes, then I would go into manual and fine tune it. I used it as a guide. I needed a high Shutter Speed to freeze the action and the options the camera gave wouldn’t have produced that effect.

 

If you know how it works, I don’t consider that cheating at all. I didn’t even know you could cheat in photography.

It’s almost like saying, “Oh you don’t know how much light will hit the film at 1/30th f/8? then you’re cheating!” Something like that.

 

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High contrast as a style isn’t really a style, The human eye is naturally attractive to contrasty images, but to someone that has ‘been-there, done-that’, it looks very cheesy to me.

 

And the no-hand wheelie is a bad photograph mostly because the background is blown out to hell.

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Reminding you that the Rule of Thirds is a GUIDE, not a Photography law.

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If you like those, then you’ll LOVE the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Helen Levitt. Two GIANTS in the photography world.

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That was a very interesting video,  I find his work very interesting in the fact that he works with sound to establish what is there at that present time but I fear that if he wasn’t blind, it wouldn’t interest me as much.

Oh, Lee Jeffries tonality is gorgeous. I may need a bit longer that four hours to study his work :P.

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