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Hi everyone, Please give any honest feedback on my portfolio. Good & bad. Thanks! Dec 02 18 07:40 pm Link Work on expanding your range of expressions, the expressions in your port are pretty limited. Try to work with better photographers, many of your images look like snapshots. Cheers. Dec 03 18 12:00 pm Link Shadow Dancer wrote: Thanks for the suggestion! Dec 04 18 04:58 am Link Pretty much what Shadow Dancer said. Biggest problem is your lack of range of expression. They're all (with one possible missed exception) serious deadpan. Next, quality of the images. Too many snapshots.  This high-contrast might look artsy, but it backfires for you as model portfolio material. With so much of you in deep shadow, my first reaction is "What's he trying to hide?"  This is your head floating in space. With a sign sticking out of it. If you're going to wear black clothing against a black background, get a photographer who knows how to use light. (Poor photography may be the photographer's fault, but you are responsible for what goes into your portfolio.)  Not sure if the annoying color cast was intentional or not, but the lighting renders this useless as model portfolio material because your face is hidden in shadow. It may be the only image in which you're trying to show some emotion, but we can't tell except by the posture and your hand and the upset girl. And that dress that poor girl is drowning in really takes over the image.  Landscape orientation chops off the hand. Dec 05 18 05:24 am Link Thanks for the suggestions! It helps a lot! Dec 05 18 09:51 am Link Shadow Dancer and Orca Bay are spot on. Your photographer should be focusing on you and obtaining a variety of poses. When I viewed your portfolio, there were four photographs that you had the same expression and pose, just different surroundings. I also found the lack of full length photos as cheating your capabilities to share mood by posture and expression. While you may consider them artistic, and you might like the the photographs, your portfolio should be selling you and your abilities. The photographer should be using his talents to frame you in poses, expressions, and postures that flatter you as the subject. Low key is fine if it highlights you, but if it only shows that the photographer can get the exposure right, then it doesn't help you that much. Get more shots, work on changing your expressions, postures, poses, Change from right to left, Sitting, standing, climbing, laying, kneeling, turning back, etc. Also, if you are wanting to get hired as a fashion model, keep in mind that you want to make the clothes look great and use poses that make the clothing look comfortable and desirable. Your goal in your portfolio is not necessarily have unique photos of you, but bringing out what you can bring to the table better than others. Good Luck and Best Regards, B Dec 07 18 02:36 am Link Fandi you have been given some really good serious critiquing and advice as far as your portfolio go. However, I would like to add that you have a strong look with a lot of potential. Work on your expressions, work on your posing especially. Posing and expression is what sets you apart and land you work. Contact the local photographers in your area (and out of your area). Continue to build your portfolio until it is too difficult to decide what to get rid of. Keep only about 10 photos in your port and ensure that they are your strongest photos (you cannot live without them). Then keep shooting and make sure that from every shoot you walk away with a photo to add to that port and toss out one of the ones you could not live without. And best advice I can give you is to not put more than a single photo from any shoot into your portfolio. Good luck and hopefully I will see you on a billboard one day as I am driving through a downtown area somewhere. Bluestill Dec 25 18 07:45 pm Link Thanks all for the suggestions! You are so helpful! Jan 01 19 04:49 pm Link Your portfolio is the same as your instagram: a lot of random ideas, a lot of posing with sunglasses, when you would be better getting basic modelling shots. You have a handsome face, but lack a good headshot. Too many of your photos are about a style or a look or a place-- they should be about you. Your photos do not show you off to your best advantage. Find a photographer who can give you four basic killer shots-- head, profile, standing, character. As other photographers have said, your images do not show your personality and look generic consequently. Nothing stands out and entices photographers at the moment. Good luck :-) Jan 05 19 02:39 pm Link Art Hermetic wrote: Thanks! That is awesome! Jan 11 19 08:30 am Link I took some advice and have new content. Tell me what you all think. Jan 29 19 09:55 am Link Hey there.. I feel like I am lost with expanding my port folio.. If you could critique my port folio I would appreciate it.. Need negative feedback and ideas I can approve.. Any photos that should not be in my port please ask to be removed. Thank you in advance Mar 12 19 11:03 pm Link wideoutparker wrote: Set up your own thread requesting a critique. This one is Fandi's. Mar 13 19 09:27 am Link FANDI wrote: Same deadpan expression throughout. Mar 13 19 09:29 am Link Shadow Dancer wrote: Shadow Dancer is dead on. Use real posing similar to expected work and you have your hands distracting too much too. May 30 19 06:47 am Link |
