Id love some feedback on my Flickr

LouisRabin · Jan 10, 2012

Flickr: Louis Rabin's Photostream

Any tips you might have or critiques you may have would really be appreciated, just let me know which picture you're talking about

Bitter Jeweler · Jan 10, 2012

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...forum-functions-pictoral-guide-using-tpf.html

You have 131 images in your photostream. You should pic a few you want critique on and post them here.
Look around at other threads here to see how it's done.

http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/digital-photography-composition-tips

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts)

http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/photography-the-rules-of-composition/

KmH · Jan 10, 2012

Further reading from the Wikipedia link:

Arnheim, Rudolf (1974). Art and Visual Perception. A Psychology of the Creative Eye. ISBN 978-0-520-02613-1.
Downer, Marion (1965). Discovering Design. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Graham, Peter (2004). An Introduction to Painting Still Life. Chartwell Books Inc. ISBN 0-7858-1750-6.
Grill, Tom; Scanlon, Mark (1990). Photographic Composition. Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 0-8174-5427-6.
Peterson, Bryan (1988). Learning to See Creatively. Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 0-8174-4177-8.
Langford, Michael (1982). The Master Guide to Photography. New York: Dorling Kindersley Limited.

ph0enix · Jan 10, 2012

You've got 131 photos in your flickr stream. Surely you're not expecting people to go through all of them. Can you pick the best 3 in your own opinion and post them directly (no links)? A brief description of each explainig what you were going for when you clicked the shutter would be great.

DiskoJoe · Jan 10, 2012

its boring.

brush · Jan 10, 2012

LouisRabin said:
[h=2]Id love some feedback on my Flickr[/h]

No...you'd love to see some stats on your flickr. If you wanted feedback you'd have looked at how the forum works and posted images for us to CC as everyone else does instead of a link to your photostream so your little stat bar spikes up for the 1 day that you're on the front page of the forum.

ph0enix · Jan 10, 2012

Bitter Jeweler said:
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...forum-functions-pictoral-guide-using-tpf.html

You have 131 images in your photostream. You should pic a few you want critique on and post them here.
Look around at other threads here to see how it's done.

10 Top Photography Composition Rules | Photography Mad

Digital Photography Tips and Tutorials

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts)

Photography: The Rules of Composition – PictureCorrect

I guess I should have read the replies before posting.

LouisRabin · Jan 10, 2012

brush said:
LouisRabin said:

[h=2]Id love some feedback on my Flickr[/h]

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No...you'd love to see some stats on your flickr. If you wanted feedback you'd have looked at how the forum works and posted images for us to CC as everyone else does instead of a link to your photostream so your little stat bar spikes up for the 1 day that you're on the front page of the forum.

I dont know why you had to be so nasty about it, you could have just told me to do it differently next time especially since this was literally my first post. What's the point of having views if nobody like what theyre looking at. The entire point of me posting here was to see how people liked my pictures and what i could do differently, if i really wanted more views i wouldnt have asked for opinions, just for people to go to the link.

LouisRabin · Jan 10, 2012

ph0enix said:
You've got 131 photos in your flickr stream. Surely you're not expecting people to go through all of them. Can you pick the best 3 in your own opinion and post them directly (no links)? A brief description of each explainig what you were going for when you clicked the shutter would be great.

not at all, i just wanted to see how/if people liked them and what i could do to make them better.

2WheelPhoto · Jan 10, 2012

This one would look great with a model on the stairs: Untitled | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

thereyougo! · Jan 10, 2012

LouisRabin said:
ph0enix said:

You've got 131 photos in your flickr stream. Surely you're not expecting people to go through all of them. Can you pick the best 3 in your own opinion and post them directly (no links)? A brief description of each explainig what you were going for when you clicked the shutter would be great.

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not at all, i just wanted to see how/if people liked them and what i could do to make them better.

The point that people are trying to make is that if you want people to give you meaningful feedback you need to pick your best three and ask for C&C on them. Otherwise you will get no meaningful feedback at all. Real feedback takes time and it's considered rude to expect people to give you feedback on over 100 images. Of course people can have a cursory look at all your images and say they are "nice". What can you possibly learn from that?

ph0enix · Jan 10, 2012

LouisRabin said:
not at all, i just wanted to see how/if people liked them and what i could do to make them better.

Does it in any way help you if people say that they like them or that they don't?
It's impossible to make a general statement on how to make them better with so many photos but after a quick glance I would say: drop the cute post- effects and focus on improving your photography skills instead. Sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear. It's just my humble opinion.

bazooka · Jan 10, 2012

Personally, I wouldn't pick your best three because those are the ones that you are most attached to and you probably wouldn't want them picked apart. I'd pick three that are okay but you think could be better, but just aren't sure why.

LightSpeed · Jan 10, 2012

Some of his stuff is pretty good.
I looked at a few pages. He's not bad at all.

Hello LouisRabin, I am LightSpeed.
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
Welcome to the forum.