Photography crit
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- runningballad
I guess i'm an aspiring photographer. i've been shooting since i was 14, so that makes it almost six years since i've been doing this. i'm barely learning how to work a camera this year, i usually shot with my aperture on automatic and just controlled my shutter. anyways, do i have potential? i would like to know what you guys think as i've seen some people post some really nice work on here and will assume that you guys know what you are talking about and even if you don't still give me your input.
my portfolio could be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/121…
- sea_sea0
interesting stuff. all i can say is don't stop, keep shooting, that's the only way you will develop your own style and from the looks of it your having fun, so that my friend, is all that matters.
figure out how you can get your camera to work for you, take as many art classes as you can and most important have fun and don't stop! :)
- thanks, and yeah it is all about having fun.runningballad
- slappy0
^^^ good advice
I think you should be selective with what you put up as some of the stuff on there is gold and a few are just snaps in my opinion. I like your mixed media stuff too.
The only advice I have is to experiment as much as possible. When you see something you like, work out how they have done it. Its good to get all the cliche shots out of the way so you can use the skills for other things. Silky smooth waterfalls, long exposure fire twirling, light painting, dragging the shutter, repetition, freeze, flare, flash, gels, low light etc. Knowing how to take particular shots is like having a set of tools.
- jaylarson0
I appreciate the last two sentences myself slappy. thanks!
- moth0
Yeah... be more selective. Some of the "poorly" exposed shots look great - and intentional. Some of them though just look like accidents (like 'daddy').
I look at these feel like I'm far too technical with my cameras.
- none are intentional to tell you the truth. they are all just happy accidents. but now that i'm learning how to work a camera i will probably intentionally not calibrate the shutter and apertures to get the results that i got with these.
it's not a bad thing to be "far too technical" withyour camera. it's all about your taste.runningballad
- none are intentional to tell you the truth. they are all just happy accidents. but now that i'm learning how to work a camera i will probably intentionally not calibrate the shutter and apertures to get the results that i got with these.
- Juan_Dumplo0
I dont like cos I feel people are acting so much, maybe some act more than others... and the exposure effects are too much for me
- runningballad0
it's really weird that you say that juan because in none of these the people are acting. they are all snapshots. nothing was choreographed at all. it's interesting that you say that though. what about them looks as though they are "acting" i would love to know, i've never heard that before and it's interesting that you that. tell me more.
- lumedia0
I really like stuff like this personally. There are a lot of photographers that are rally good a capturing a moment even though they really are no good at using a camera.
If you stick with it, you might have all the right skills to be a professional photographer.
- sikma0
not a bad start. now lets see some clean composed shots.
- joewigdahlphoto0
heya- i like some of your stuff- it's very natural and feels fun and free. the challenge with doing that kind of stuff as a working photographer though is that if you get hired based on the photos you show you'll probably be expected to create something like that and for that you'd really have to know a lot about technique to be able to recreate it on demand.
I'd say whatever style you find yourself lured towards or even if you don't want to think about style and just want to take pictures, learn your camera inside out and do everything on manual settings for a while. you'll start to get a better grasp of what does what and why and you can start doing things on purpose when you want to. Along the way you'll probably discover something that really inspires you. It's like playing an instrument and learning scales and doing finger exercise to get to the point to play what you want.
- joewigdahlphoto0
oh- i also like the law of averages. if you take about 100,000 pictures there's got to be at least 20 killer pictures in there somewhere.
- tomkat0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/121…
like that