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Photographer

Sashka of SME

Posts: 145

Phoenix, Arizona, US

bad shadows on the face, blemishes, skin color, sharpness..what are my issues of that nature?

Jan 19 13 08:45 am Link

Retoucher

Ledo retouch

Posts: 1184

Lodi, California, US

on what image ?

Jan 19 13 08:05 pm Link

Photographer

John Horwitz

Posts: 2920

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

poor lighting, bad composition, negligent post processing, and creepy cropping

Jan 19 13 08:16 pm Link

Photographer

Sashka of SME

Posts: 145

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Ledo retouch wrote:
on what image ?

Generally speaking looking at my work. What common issue can I fix right away or that pops up in your eye?

Jan 20 13 09:46 pm Link

Photographer

Sashka of SME

Posts: 145

Phoenix, Arizona, US

John Horwitz wrote:
poor lighting, bad composition, negligent post processing, and creepy cropping

I wouldn't be talking if I were you looking at your portfolio. Lame critique, closer to trolling than any help. Thanks anyways.

Jan 20 13 09:47 pm Link

Photographer

Motordrive Photography

Posts: 7086

Lodi, California, US

Sasha R Expressions  wrote:

Generally speaking looking at my work. What common issue can I fix right away or that pops up in your eye?

my first impression is the b&w shots look quite flat to me. the small amount
of separation is mostly from DOF. I like the ones with the plane in b.g., the
skin tones are too close to b.g. for my taste. color ones would benefit from
color correction.

Jan 21 13 12:45 pm Link

Retoucher

Ovidiu Oltean

Posts: 179

Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

Russian Invasion  wrote:

I wouldn't be talking if I were you looking at your portfolio. Lame critique, closer to trolling than any help. Thanks anyways.

he is right in some way, sorry.
Practice more, good luck.

Jan 24 13 12:41 pm Link

Retoucher

Mike Needham Retouching

Posts: 385

Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom

Rather than rail against someone who has offered you clear concise and pretty blunt critique, it may help to address the points made. To spit your dummy and then critique someone else's portfolio is pathetic at best, the forum rules state you may not offer unsolicited critique, so what makes you so precious?

Your images are badly lit for the main part, yellow street lighting and no colour correction in the night shots are not really that flattering to the subject. The locations are not really that inspiring either. In shots such as "night photography (10 second exposure)" what is the subject matter, the background or the model? Again bad lighting introduces so much ISO noise. 

Some of the night images look more like a camera phone image. I like "she smiles too" and your self portrait, but as pointed out the images are flat, due to no lighting and a basic black and white conversion, perhaps a b&w adjustment layer or two and some masking may bring more dynamic in to the images.

Lastly I may suggest a little more variety in locations, type of shots and models in your profile.

Jan 25 13 04:47 am Link