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  • in reply to: CC welcome beginner #18464
    petrock
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    A great website to learn about off camera flash is http://www.strobist.com . It’s free content and I’d recommend it to any photographer. It has a great “lighting 101” tutorial that walks you through what to buy and how to use it in a very understandable way. The gear itself will probably run you around $100 on Amazon, a cheap hotshoe flash, a stand, an umbrella, and a sync cord.

    Your work looks very promising, a few things we could nitpick but overall very good. Keep it up! 🙂

    in reply to: Fauxtogs who should end up on the main page… #18373
    petrock
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    Ok, this next one is so bad I think they’re seriously TRYING to end up on YANAP.

    https://www.facebook.com/park.photos?fref=ts

    Let’s run down the page and check off the terrible-ness together, shall we?
    Cut off head on the cover photo? Check.
    Using bad grammar in the name of your business? “Park Photo’s”. Check.
    Cutting off your business name in the profile photos? Check.
    Ad to share tickets on a Bingo game app? Check.
    Spammy posts wondering why nobody’s signing up for her mini sessions? Check. And we’re not even to the “photos” yet!
    Ok, the photos…. blurry, grainy, unflattering, badly cropped, extreme diagonal angles, no concept of lighting, unnecessary vignettes, cheesy borders and “special effects” (including some bad spot colors and ultrasound photos pasted onto pregnant bellies), plastered with a big ugly watermark… Check, check, checkitty-check.
    It’s like a smorgasbord of terrible photography!

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