[jackd]

If we look at the room using the other camera, set to ISO 100, f/18 and 1/200th then this is what the camera sees:

Who regularly shoots at f/18? While most lenses go at least to there, they usually aren’t the best there. low key photography doesn’t always mean a bright subject black background, the subject might by dark and in shadow as well, or there might be low light shape spillage onto the background. As long as you’ve blocked the outside light you can do it in a white room depending on the lights you’re using. strip lights, low powered lights, might not create much bounce at all.

[jackd]

Don’t need a curtain.  All the shots where light bleeds through are with a setup for those very low power continuous lights.  Those black  photos are with one of the continuous lights on, and the camera set for use with a flash or a strobe.  The photo is almost black, and that’s with a light on!

Yes, but if you want to shoot anything low key and it’s a sunny day out, you’re going to run into issues.Even if it’s not sunny..I’m sure an overcast day would cause issues shooting low-key things.

 

[jackd]

Only 3 and 4 have anything to actually do with the quality of one’s image and 4 is so ridiculously far off the mark it’s laughable. This made the rounds on genuine photography sites awhile back, it wasn’t particularly well received there either.

Getting a good image or a good enough image in camera is important, but anyone who thinks an image fresh out of the camera is really “done” doesn’t really know anything about photography. even the top photographers edit their photos enormously, just as photographers have always done. A raw file is a negative, and it needs to be developed. You don’t do that just by wishing really hard.

So really only the third one actually speaks to image quality and well.. if the guy is so far off the mark with the rest, would you really trust anything they had to say at that point?

 

[jackd]

You should put a black curtain behind your backdrop, your window bleeds through in a lot of shots.

 

 

[jackd]

You said you were going to work on the filters, but the last x pages worth of scroll on your page are all filtered to death. Make a rule..no filters.

 

[jackd]

In regards to the pale skin girl, there isn’t much you can do with her. There is just no skin texture data there, at least not in the jpgs present on facebook’s page. If you have the originals in raw, there might be something there that can be worked with.

Though in the bookstore she actually has some skin tone, so it seems more like you just blew the highlights there. Overall your photos aren’t bad.This was a quick redo of your bookstore shot in photoshop. There is only so much you can do with a facebook jpg.. You should look at some photoshop video series online, as your photos could probably benefit from some proper editing. It is easy to go overboard.
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vs my redo.
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7816/c4rg.jpg

(for some reason these both showed up in the editor, then on posting disappeared)

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