Jenny Gavin-Wear wrote:
Your images to me feel like you are going for effects to impress and you are missing the key elements of the photograph.

Unnecessary use of gels, colours in backgrounds.

Flat lighting lacking any dimension because of a lack of understanding in light and shadow.

Badly exposed.  Especially lack of understanding of how exposure is used to draw attention to a subject.

Sorry if my critique sounds harsh, but you seem to have lost focus about what your finished image is for amid a myriad of poorly applied special effects.

Lastly, and this could be the biggy.  Your photos lack a vision.  They feel like you have a rough idea and then throw enough at it until you bury it, or have no idea at all.

Shoot to make your subject look good, not to make you look clever.

Critique your own work.

Lay off the post processing and focusing on composing an image, lighting it and conveying intent. Keep shooting x1,000 and it will pass the time away until you look at your NOW compared to the THEN of today and be incredibly impressed with yourself.

Good luck!

Jennivere Cosplay wrote:
I'm taking a response from thread https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=921152 as it has some really useful advice I think would be beneficial to you as a photographer.


Lay off the post processing and focusing on composing an image, lighting it and conveying intent. Keep shooting x1,000 and it will pass the time away until you look at your NOW compared to the THEN of today and be incredibly impressed with yourself.

Good luck!

I have to agree. Photography is so much more than filter or presets you don't know how to adjust. Composition, manual shooting in Raw, expousure , the control of light.  These are what you need to focus on.

You need to throw out almost all of these images and try again. Try Lightroom 5 as your tool for post prossessing.

Kimb3rlyKay wrote:
I'm an amateur at this but i just love to take photos/model and i need some positive criticism on my photos, i know i need way more experience but i really want to learn, so any help would be awesome, thank you!!

Seriously?  Your photography is dire.

Get a photographer to take your shots.  We spend years (read life time) learning for a reason.