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I’m not taking sides but I thought it funny to mention that my profile picture was taken outside in february in Fairbanks alaska at -10farenheight . Girl had basically a scarf wrapped around her and weight ten lbs soaking wet haha. If you ask enough people will do it.

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Rodeo – Actually quite a few of us have portfolios on this forum. Just look. Also seriously, pull a photo of someone in this thread ( with the exception of a few link that people have defended as poor choices for this forum) and then google Child Photography. Actually here I did it for you : https://www.google.com/search?q=Child+photography&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=gd0&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=o2glUbLFBufyiQLH54GoCw&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=1246&bih=918

Now compare. This is the point we are making here. I’d say a good amount of the people on that page started out with some bad decisions in composition and editing, but I can guarentee that they didn’t charge for it when they did. AND they got better, and quick, Since NOTHING in the photography industry is cheap, except maybe a nifty fifty ( 1-2 hundred dollars lol )

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Watch your separation  on this one : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=468726036497706&set=a.381807888522855.76939.303749592995352&type=3&theater

He starts to fall off into the background. Also I’m scared for him, because of the tilt, looks like he’s about to fall off the world. It also feels really warm, not sure if you’re shooting with tungsten or what but his face is going towards orange in the shadows. Try putting a rim light or back light on him to pull him off the background

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=370816849621959&set=a.370816242955353.75484.303749592995352&type=3&theater

Tilt again. It’s disconcerting for me, which is what ‘dutch’ angles are meant to do, cause unease. Also Zombie children. Green is rarely flattering for a skin tone. If you want monotone color, try for a light handed blue monochrome look instead. It will feel a little cool, but I generally find blues to be more appealing then reds/sepia. Might be personal opinion, since I do have a real obsession with (light) blue monochromes haha.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=445799585457018&set=a.373090406061270.75813.303749592995352&type=3&theater

It’s a little bit cliche, adn it’s tilted again, but her ruffles are really blown out, and her face is darker then her arms. Generally, our eyes will go to the brightest area of a photo. That’s the ruffly things. It’s also hard to tell cause freaking facebook, but her face doesn’t look very sharp either. Try working with the composition of this, as that angle isn’t the most flattering.

 

Those are the only ones of what you picked that I had anything to say 🙂

 

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Heh so granted this is terrible when I saw it. But I feel like conceptually it could be a lot of fun. Blocking the subject with a phone, but showing whats behind the phone on the phone. ( that was incredibly awkwardly stated). Sort of like that series of old photographs superimposed over the areas they were taken in modern time. Again I doubt very much there was any thought put into this shot, but I could see a series using that concept haha https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/529420_407579475998136_2130669026_n.jpg

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Also while nikon has kept the same lens mount, not all the bodies have the screw pin thing ( seriously the name just flew outta my head) for older lens to be able to autofocus. They can still be used, just manually O.o hehe

 

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The high end consumer models do have two wheels. I have one in the front by my shutter and one in the back ( the thumb one) and it’s the D7000. The low end is similar to the canon you’re talking about, where you hold the AV button to change the aperture ( such as the D3XXX although not positive on the 3200)

As a nikon girl, I can’t take how canon feels and operates. and up here in Fairbanks canons outnumber Nikons 4 to 1 at least. I did a workshop with 10 people I had the only nikon, and one had an Olympus lol. I think it’s just when you aren’t used to them it all feels awkward and horrible haha

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The OCD in me wants center girl to have her mouth open too. But it’s not really terrible since she IS middle. I will say is for me my eye first goes to the center picture, and I don’t think it’s the strongest there.  I don’t know if anyone will agree about sitting in the middle though.

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“I have one of them that is a straight on shot as well. I personally like the tilt on this one, but everyone is different with what they like.”

With this it’s not really about not liking it. I actually like the framing, composition, and lighting of the photo. What your tilt did was make it seem like a mistake. It doesn’t feel deliberate it feels like what I go through, an inability to keep my camera level Haha. I think you’d be hard pressed to find a portrait photographer of recognition that would do a tilt like that in your picture. Key word Portrait photographer here. Conceptual, art, even editorial are different ballgames entirely.Portrait work is really more of a commercial business with less liberties.

I’m not really trying to harp on it, and if you can give me a legit reason why you feel this image is BETTER tilted, I’ll tip my hat to you and walk away. That is my point. I want you to have REASONS to break the rules that are based in Art theory/composition. These are the questions you get asked in a formal education, and the critical edge I think a lot of self taughts are missing.

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Here’s my thing on tilting. If you must do it, make it seem intentional. This one :

http://brejohnsonphotography.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mg_4598.jpg?w=352&h=529

just looks like one of your legs is shorter then the other. I have the worst time ever keeping my camera level, so I have to do a lot of tweaking with horizons, and that’s what that image reminds me of. Which is terrible because I love what the tunnel is doing on the ceiling. It’s visually interesting and frames the couple well.

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I’m orginally from Ohio, but being military we’ve been to Upstate NY ( watertown) and currently in Fairbanks Alaska. Heading to Oklahoma next!

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I actually really enjoyed his work as well. He’s much more a lifestyle photographer then a portrait photography, but I really enjoy his stuff.

 

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Well, anything you do in editing can generally be done with the right knowledge and equipment. But on the other end, film photographers still did a ton of post processing ( editing) while in the lab. Truthfully, not many of them could get it “perfect” either, but they did get it MUCH closer to perfect then we do in digital.

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I grew up riding a skiddish morgan and a solid go with teh flow Thoroughbred/quarter horse. I also will second the no protective gear. I did barrel runs, jumps, everything without so much as a helmet. lol! I was never as comfortable to do the walk or stand, ( i have teh worst balance) I know many who have. You know your horses, and generally someone willing to do that pose will know and have worked with the horse before.

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Okay. Please don’t take this as me speaking down to you or anything, just something I noted as pretty funny. It’s no less a valid reason then mine for wanting to be a pro but it made me giggle.

You said in your OP

“I could not afford to pay a pro any longer,”

and because of that you decided to drop what has probably equated to over a grand on camera equipment lol. I thought at first it was only the D3100, which you can get for probably 500 now, or maybe less now that the 3200 is out. But then you mentioned your lenses and strobes. Just weird reasoning for a profession that doesn’t come cheap or easy 🙂

 

 

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