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I would love some constructive critique on my portfolio -Maryah Apr 08 14 07:50 pm Link Vignetting: Way too heavey-handed. The rule I use is that is the piece is properly vignetted, you won't notice it. I vignet practically everything. Composition: Much of the time there is way too much dead-space. Tighter crops would often help. Composition: Too often, shots are centered. Try re-composing shots. Apr 08 14 08:24 pm Link I echo "Ish's" comments. Your Logo is a little distracting too. Keep on working at it....  Apr 08 14 10:35 pm Link Squint at your images as thumbnails.  Some have readable figures  but a lot don't.  Regarding vignettes - look at the sky. The blue is the same in the center of both. Now look at the corners. One image is a real vignette. The other is fake, applied in post using an overly simplistic (but popular) method. Can you tell from the corner colors which is which? Apr 08 14 11:34 pm Link Your models don't really "pop", mostly due to the lighting. I like your efforts, and it is all a process. The above comments are very good and spot on. Primarily use vignetting to add a bit to your subject, it should not overpower the picture. Apr 09 14 07:09 am Link You are putting seams in seamless paper:    Round out those corners. Apr 09 14 08:40 am Link Maryah Trigg wrote: I do like the simple layout o the retro pinup style on the images I ran thru ...IF you can maybe get another light to the models face to give it some more emphasis .. The lighting seems flat .. I shoot a lot of street images (not on MM) and you have to work with what you got. Try taking a light from Home Depot sticking a fluorescent bulb in it or other bulb and just walk around the model and see how the movements and positioning as you walk around holding the light can have quite dramatic effects .. I know one photographer that uses 2 or 3 of these construction lights with the thin aluminum shields, that cost about 5 bucks and his stuff is really great. Apr 09 14 01:26 pm Link Francisco Castro wrote: HEY this is clickman818 --- Thanks for THAT tip. I would have not figured that out till someone told me ... My stuff is outdoors and so paperless .. good info to remember! Apr 09 14 01:27 pm Link The images above (used for comment re: seamless) look like you are shooting down on the model making her lower half short and squatty. Try shooting from a slightly lower camera angle. Apr 09 14 01:48 pm Link I hate your large distracting watermark Apr 09 14 01:52 pm Link 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. Apr 09 14 04:43 pm Link |
