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What do you think of my photography?

I've been doing photography for a couple years now and would love some feedback on some of my most recent stuff! Positive and negative feedback would be greatly appreciated! The link is of a set that I made with my most recent work but please feel free to look at my entire photostream. Also feel free to leave comments on the photos themselves! :)

Thanks so much!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/linds11903/sets/72157...

P.S. If you have a photostream and want some feedback or to add me on flickr please leave me a link or add me :)

Update:

Meg Barrett: Always have your camera ready and on hand because you never know when they are going to do something cute that's worth capturing! Also, take a lot of photos! You may end up with some bad ones, but also some really good one :) Good luck, and thank you!

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  • 10 years ago
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    A mixed bunch -

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/linds11903/6022334834...

    shot too close with a wide angle focal length - has distorted the face. Stand back & zoom in!

    Like the soft golden light in this one;

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/linds11903/6021834905...

    but the skin tones look too orange - reduce the saturation a bit!

    This one;

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/linds11903/6022355630...

    exposing for detail in the sky has left the foreground underexposed - to counter this you need a grad. ND filter (on a DSLR lens) or you need to expose for the sky and the land (ie take two separate exposures from a fixed position) and blend them together in post.

    This I like;

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/linds11903/6022349802...

    interesting viewpoint & perspective.

    The best portrait in your Recent Stuff set;

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/linds11903/6021784571...

    good eye contact, very soft light. Could do with a little pp to boost contrast, but a lovely image all the same.

    These;

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/linds11903/6022411796...

    good concept but lacks punch. Can really only get something dramatic with good metering & additional lighting.

    I really like your take on Irving Penn's shot (girl in the pink dress)! Very good attempt & shows that you are thinking about lighting creatively. If the light had been a little more towards the front then you'd've nailed it. In the original the light is high & about 45 degree camera left, yours is more 90 degrees camera left.

  • 10 years ago

    I really loved your photographs, and you can immediately tell that you have a very sharp eye when photographing too, which is always great. I loved the way you used depth of field especially in the picture of the cupcake (depth of field - where you could clearly see the cupcake and the background was blurred), this was a great technique as it really reinforced the sharpness of the cupcake itself.

    What I would suggest though, is to experiment with camera angles and composition a little more. For instance, taking photographs from above, below, the side etc. Even extreme close-ups are really effective too. It may seem daunting and bad at first, but once you develop the skill you'll see how interesting it makes the photographs look.

    Hope that helps :)

  • 10 years ago

    You will have no potential until you stop thinking about how you want things to look - this is particularly evident in the self-portraits. However, you do have an excellent appreciation of colour; in a lot of your images you seem to understand that colour can help shape the form of your pictures. Most useful advice I was given was when someone told me to not think about the thing I am looking at when I see it through the frame. This way you look at everything objectively. It is, well at least was a photographers secret.

  • 5 years ago

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  • 10 years ago

    I think your photos are really good! I'm on flickr as well. I haven't added too many photos. I think it's fun. I mainly use the site to look at other pictures. =)

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mavey/

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I think you have a great future! I adore the baby pic, the girl in the woods,and the panda bear. Wow, I am truly impressed. I wish I could take pics like that! I just had my first baby and I wish I could get great photos of him like that! Any tips?

    Source(s): my personal taste
  • 10 years ago

    I think you have a good eye, your pics are interesting:) I think it would do you some good to invest in a dslr in the future. You limit yourself with a point and shoot. Keep shooting, you'll only get better:)

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/48928557@N06/

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    by looking at your pictures i can tell you imaginative,all the colours and different thing they are good keep it up

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