There's a difference between posting
snapshots of kids and pets, and posting
deliberate photographs of kids and pets. I'm still learning, and in order to learn I have to practice. When I'm sitting at home pondering f/stops and lighting setups, the most readily available test subjects are my wife, my daughter, and my cat.
I take snapshots of them too, but I don't post them for C&C because I know they're just snapshots. The ones where I really took time to set up, really thought out the exposure, got out the light stand and umbrellas, etc. though - those are the ones I post for C&C.
If you're assertion is that kids and pets don't make good test subjects, how is someone supposed to learn, especially if what they're really interested in is portraits? I'm pretty sure the neighbors would get creeped out if I kept going over there to take pictures of
their daughter...
Deliberate:
Snapshot:
Deliberate (though opportunistic):
Snapshot:
Uh... I don't seem to have any snapshots of my cat up on my Picasa albums, so just pretend you see a picture with a white cat sleeping somewhere unusual with a bunch of distracting crap in the background.
:mrgreen: