Do you think I have "the eye"?

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Answer 1

yes,they are good and original.

Answer 2

Well I wasn't going to comment until I saw all the responses, which I thought were about 100 miles off base.

Is there such thing has having an eye for photography? The answer is 100 percent yes. I graduated from Brooks institute of Photography. There are others that have graduated from there that still can't shoot an original photograph. Yes technically they are good. They may even be able to compose a picture in a nice fashion. But that is only 2 out of three parts of what is necessary to become a great photographer.
Now I have seen some people with a Great "eye" for photography that do not have the technical background. This will also severely limit the photographer from taking a truly meaningful picture.
So what is the eye. To use an music analogy, there are some that can play a song on the piano and hit all the right notes in the right rhythm. Then there are others that can play the same piece and make the same exact song have meaning and feeling.
So now to comment on your work. I will agree with some of the poster that some technical aspects can be worked on, but your question dealt with do you have an eye. The answer isn't a simple yes or no. The eye is just like the technical aspects of photography. It must be developed and refined.
How?
By literally start taking tens of thousands of pictures. My advice for you would be to start looking at different perspectives. When we all start we tend to take pictures from the same vantage point from where we view the world. So change that.
Then explore the subject you are shooting. I guarantee you you will get to know your subject in a different way once you have taken about 1000 pictures of it. (Note, this doesn't imply you should shoot these pictures fast or even all at once.) You are not simply hoping to get a lucky shoot. The emphasis here is to CREATE a shot. This takes time and patience.
Study the masters! Ask yourself why is Ansel Adams picture of Yosemite valley worth tens of thousands of dollars. Literally there are millions of people a year that take the same picture from the exact same spot. Even today his picture hasn't been outdone. Study why.
So here is the path. You need to work and all aspects. But you have a good start so keep it up.

Answer 3

I have seen your work and honestly you are a very talented young woman....an artist in progress. My mom is eighty years old and was and throughout her life people thought she was weird because instead of getting married she did everything against the norm of what "proper ladies" in her circle did like get married and have babies in the forties and the fifties era. Instead she did everything else she was a lounge singer, she worked tirelessly on a manuscript that never sold when she did marry and have babies. She painted (one time a mural on our kitchen wall)! My brothers and sisters thought she was weird because she wasn't like all of their friends moms. I never did. I always supported her
all those nights I could her her tapping the keys of her typewriter lulling me to sleep. The pain and tears of every rejection letter from publishing companies. She had the talent and if she had proper schooling and training she would be rich and famous, because her work was good but not refined. I asked her why did she keep doing it? She told me she was an artist and unless you are one..and I am not that it is like a disease. It is something you cannot supress. It wasn't
until she was seventy years old and she gave up on ever selling her manuscript and started writing poetry. I expected to see some shoddy work but to my suprise it was unbelievable and fantastic. I encouraged her to submit her work and finally after a lifetime of rejection she had found her niche. Her poems were selected and won! They got published in a bueatiful collection of poetry that I cherish.
My point is she had the "Eye" and so do you. No matter what anyone tells you or the pain or rejection or the insecurities you may feel from time to time...never give up, just keep getting better. Remember it is always progress not perfection
in your passion of art. You are young don't be like my mom and sacrifice your love for what you do for something else. With time your work is a seed will blossom into a beautiful flower for all the world to appreciate!

Answer 4

Nice photos.

There is such a thing as "seeing photographically" which we develop over time. The following is from "Object & Image: An Introduction To Photography, Third Edition" by George M. Craven, pp 8 & 9:

"No matter how we want our picture to function, as photographers we must also think of our image in terms of what our tools and materials can do. Practically speaking, we must understand how photographic materials and processes work in order to visualize our picture. To Edward Weston, the photographer, this was "seeing photographically," a process by which we concentrate on an object or observe an event, decide what kind of image we want to amke from it, and then see the image in our mind as a picture. Although great photographs occasionally result from accident or chance, most are created by photographers seeing and visualizing the image beforehand."

Answer 5

I wouldn't worry so much about "the eye" and work more on your basics. Exposures for some are way off...focus/camera blur is there on some that is unattractive...color seems off on some and the B&W are not there in tone or exposure.

Everything must click, and if exposure is off...then nothing else really matters.

Answer 6

"the eye" is like having super marvel powers which some human beings does not possess. you know what good composition is and you know how to adjust everything in your camera, but developing this"eye" would take time. It's like enhancing more of your talent by exercising it constantly and exploring different techniques in photography. "The Eye" I believe is not an innate talent. Everyone can have it as long as you believe you can do it.
PLUS! you can upgrade your lenses, use ultra good digital cameras and concentrate with what you are doing.

Answer 7

i dont believe in "the eye", i do believe in composition, view points et cetera.

you might have what people call the eye,

to me when people say have i got the eye, they are actually saying they have no technical abillities

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