I've been doing photography for half a year. Please critique my work technique wise and artistically also.

Thanks,
Van

Not bad. You have some decent portraits, but nothing that necessarily could be called "fashion". You've only been doing this for 6 months, give yourself some time, and keep shooting a lot. Look at the work of photographers you admire and study what they've done, posing and lighting-wise. Try to book work with experienced models, even if you need to pay them, as that will definitely help you grow as a photographer.

Pay attention to your posing; limbs being cut off tends to look super awkward. Such as:
https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/36229328  And as an artistic photo it's not bad, but as a portfolio image it's not great. Eyes open would have been much better for this purpose.

In this one, with her hands buried between her legs, it looks like a bizarre combination of amputated + possibly sexually suggestive:
https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/36085417

This is nice, but the tilted angle completely kills what would be an otherwise decent portrait:
https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/36229329

Good luck and keep shooting! The models you've chosen so far are very pretty, but I bet that a year from now if you worked with them again and then went back and compared those new images to these, you'd see a big difference.

Great critique. Thanks for pointing out the weaknesses.

Anyone else?

Not bad (also).

The one thing that strikes me immediately is the less-than-visually-efffective cropping on some of the images.
I'd suggest looking through fashion magazines, as well as the fashion agency online boards to get a better idea what crops work.

Think of crops as a viewport into the image, rather than an artistic mechanism in of itself.

Thanks!

I don't crop my photos. So the composition is off. I'll keep practicing