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This woman gets business by taking hundreds upon hundreds of pictures at events/football games at a university, watermarks them, and then posts them so the parents of those in the photos can be tricked into buying them. She holds contests, etc. Some photos aren’t terrible, but she tries to pass as a professional using a kit lens that came with her 60D.

https://www.facebook.com/CassandraWilsonPhotography

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This is an old acquaintance of mine from high school who just started a “business”…

https://www.facebook.com/emeraldstarrphotography?ref=stream

 

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Hi Olivia!

I was browsing through your categories (your facebook page link didn’t work for me?) and it looks pretty nice at first glance. I’m not someone with double-digit years of experience in photography, but here are my comments on your website with pretty basic things I picked up on:

– Seniors: Some of the senior portraits had bluish skin tones, so maybe white balance correction could fix this? (probably because you took the picture in the shade? I forget to adjust white balance when lighting situations change sometimes too, and AWB doesn’t always account for that.) Also, the faded/low-contrast look you’re going for makes some of the more fair-skinned girls look extra pale, in my opinion.

– Maternity: On the ones where the shots are indoors (like the one where a woman is on a bed) the noise in the photo becomes really noticeable.

– Families/Portraits: (you have a typo in the category name… did you mean “families” instead of “family’s”?) Here, I noticed the same thing from the senior portraits with the bluish skin tones due to them being taken in the shade (which is a good move, but you just gotta adjust for white balance). Then again, is that the look you’re going for? Also, the eyes on some people might be over-edited as well? Looks a bit unnatural.

And that’s all I had the energy to look through tonight. I have put off sleeping long enough haha. Hope that helps!

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