o hey tyler
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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I think your photos suffer from poor or uneven lighting. I'll explain what I mean:
1. Do you notice how the left side of the frame is better exposed than the right side of the frame? If you look at her legs and shoes, you'll see that there's almost a milky haze over that side of the frame. It almost looks even like the image gets softer on the right side. I think this mostly has to do with the conditions in which you composed the shot and what the light had to bounce off of in the room you were in.
2. Probably the strongest of the set, however you covered up part of her body with your watermark. That's normally considered bad practice.
3. The black background makes it appear as though she has far less hair than she does. There's not enough definition, or sheen on her hair to make it stand out from the black background.
4. Suffers less from the lighting that plagued #1. But still looks slightly out of focus for whatever reason. It become very apparent around her earring.
5. Lost definition in hair, use of excessive skin softening, and the earring again looks out of focus and I find to be very distracting.
You seem to be getting a lot of praise from these shots, but to be honest I'm not really impressed. I think the lighting needs a lot of reworking, and you should exercise more subtlety when processing images.
Studio lights does not a professional photographer make. But you're probably on the right track.
Thanks, I think you should do a photo shoot and show me what you mean. :thumbup:
Nah, I'd rather sit here and post critiques on your photos, and then shortly later get a sarcastic response because someone called you out on your less than stellar lighting and excessive processing. That sounds like a better use of my time right now.
I don't need to produce a shot to tell you that your lighting is uneven. You can look at the first photo and see it. I also don't need to process a photo to make an example of what over processing a photo can do to the overall quality of the image.
So, while I'm over here actually analyzing your photos, you're sitting in front of your PC with a "Holier than Thou" attitude. That's fine and dandy, but it's also kind of egotistical, and it all seemed to come along after you got a piece of L glass and some Ebay lights... Hmmmm... Interesting how that works.
So if you don't appreciate my critiques, that's fine. You're not going to learn anything if you just listen to all the blind praise you get.
Re-work the lighting, it's bad. Your choice of black for the background was also a bad idea. You have some more to learn.