I'm working on putting a portfolio of all my photographs and i have another picture for you all to critique. please be honest.
http://i13.tinypic.com/6octm5f.jpg
2007-12-02 01:34:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
Not sharp, not well composed or executed, and not a portfolio print. Your portfolio needs to show the very best you have produced. Weed out the sub-standard ones. This one is for the family album or even the delete button as it suffers from camera shake and the in focus cluttered background. Keep trying and learning, and be brutal in editing for a portfolio.
2007-12-02 13:41:15 · answer #1 · answered by Ara57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, this one is suffering from a serious lack of sharpness, and a distracting background, and the color is a bit desaturated.
Advice, when shooting outdoors, buy and use a circular polarizer. Doing so will remove the random light reflecting off all but mirrored and shiny surfaces, which improves color saturation. This filter makes the difference between a good photo and a great photo, I don't leave home without it.
Next time shoot in aperture priority mode, and set a wider aperture which will blur distracting background elements and at the same time drive the shutter speed higher, freezing the action and reducing the introduction of camera shake.
A word about portfolio's. Your portfolio should be a cross section of subjects and should display your absolute best work. You must be brutal when you edit, any technical flaw in focus, exposure, is an automatic disqualification. The portfolio is used to show clients that you are proficient using a camera (technical side) and that you have a good eye for composition, anything less will reflect poorly on your abilities as a photographer. Better to have a portfolio of 5 great images, than one with 5 great images and 15 more that are sub standard.
G'Luck, and keep shooting, and were all learning here so keep asking questions, OK ?
2007-12-02 09:52:53 · answer #2 · answered by J-MaN 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ordinary snapshot-grab, with no advance planning to produce a 'photograph'. Sports Illustrated would not be interested in the slightest :)
Blurred but not attractively in any sense.
I don't mind the anonymity of the figure but is IS just very ordinary.
Honesty can be so cruel but the world IS cruel and, to succeed, you have to be MUCH more creative.
2007-12-02 10:38:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice action shot, great colour saturation. Just lacks that "pro touch".
Here are some tips:
- use faster shutter speed to stop motion
- watch out for crooked horizons
- crop to get irrelevant junk out of background and foreground
Hope this helps.
2007-12-02 18:34:38 · answer #4 · answered by V2K1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't really do anything for me. I couldn't connect with the subject for any emotion. It just seemed generic and one of many shot on impulse. I would have liked to see the boy's face as he took off for the jump--his back tells me nothing about him or what he's feeling or anticipating. Also the framing seemed distracting--the background just didn't add anything.
2007-12-02 09:46:57 · answer #5 · answered by sursumcorda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice capture, you should use faster shutter speed to avoid blurry in the object. If you can get the face expression, that would be better. IMHO.
2007-12-02 09:42:53 · answer #6 · answered by Akang TW 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋