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Can you please comment on my photographs please? thanks i just want to improve?

http://lightpursuer.carbonmade.com/

I use a Nikon D3100

I want to take on photography seriously and here are just some of my beginning works :)

Please leave a comment on how i can improve and rate out of 10.

Also please tell me if some of these are 'sell-able'

thanks :)

Update:

i some of the images are pretty ordinary but i just want to know if they're good or bad, a rating and how i can improve. I know how to shoot Bokeh, Long exposure and etc. Its just that i haven't uploaded them yet :) thanks anyway

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  • 9 years ago
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    At this point the work you have shown consists of many of the typical beginner errors. Your focus is soft on many, you dead center objects and seem unaware of the use of rule of thirds, you show many close ups of uninteresting items, but at least your exposure is pleasant and you are not showing crooked horizons.

    The good news is that everybody who is a pro started at this point. Now you need to move forward. Take a class, read everything you can, take workshops, join your local camera club and seek a mentor.

    Nothing here is "sella-able" at this point. Like any other artistic skill you must hone it and invest in yourself.

  • 9 years ago

    The photograph of the child behind the flowers has one flaw - the color of the child's dress is similar to the color of the flowers, so the contrast that would be there if the dress were yellow is not there.

    When you see a good scene, you take pictures as quickly as possible. In the old days of film, this made taking photographs very expensive as professional photographers would shoot a whole roll of film - 24 shots - and adjust the lens for depth of field and light throughout, hoping one of the shots would be a very good one.

    Today's digital cameras allow you to take hundreds of photos as fast as the camera can take them, for no extra cost, as you can remove the memory card, install a new one, and start taking pictures again while the photos on the first memory card are copied on a laptop computer. You never have to pay for the chemical film developing.

    So the advice from me is for you to take dozens of pictures of a scene that interests you. Move around the scene and shoot from different angles. Look at the scene for something interesting. It's hard because most scenes are very ordinary, and often have things in them that are objectionable in a photograph, like a power line utility pole sprouting up behind someone's head, or power lines in a landscape photo.

    Experiment with depth of field. Hundreds of pictures !

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Frankly, I found them as typical snapshots, specially the flowers. Though I did like some from the White and Black album.

    I see that u r a beginner, with a nice camera. U do have the talent so do take photography seriously! You'll do much better. :)

    How u can improve? Well, go to the famous search engine and read out blogs on different photography techniquies. Im sure they'd help! :)

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeekay95/

  • Andy W
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    In the main just very ordinary snapshots from a beginner.

    Most lack any real interest or proper focal point.

    The b/w shots lack contrast and are totally uninteresting

    The flower shots lack proper focus, lighting and composition

    To help you learn you should look at some of the photography on sites such as http://www.1x.com/ http://www.500px.com/ or the galleries on http://www.photo.net/

  • Ronnie
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    If the photos are pretty ordinary are bad photos! you must to know what is a good photograph and a beatutiful photograph, you dont have any good photo, you have maybe two or three beautiful photos but almost everybody has that photos...

    Sorry but are not sellable

  • 9 years ago

    Some great, some ok, some boring.

    Stop with the snapshots and raise your average.

    Keep going!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    No offense, but your pictures are pretty typical and nothing unusual. They just look like random teenager snapshots. And, sorry, but your pictures are nowhere near good enough to sell. Go to you local library and spend some time reading the basic photography books they have. Update: I'm not going to give you a # rating. Your pictures failed to keep my attention. Get rid of the repeat pictures (just use one rose picture). Go to your local library and read some of the basic photography books they have - they'll teach you about composition, the rule-of-thirds, etc etc. Anyone can shoot bokeh. What mode are you using your camera in? Aperture Priority, full manual, full auto, or______? Keep shooting and practicing.

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