don’t cut off elbows and corners toes foot hand edge of the flower in pictures
2, 3, 7, 13, 21, 23, 26
Try to include the whole object, and less of the wasted space, like in front of the girl on the surf board but her feet are missing.
I picture 3, don’t use a flash or prevent the distracting shadow, It would be a lot more interesting to see where the water lands and splashes in the sink and to keep it complete, either include the whole pipe/faucet with the stream of water and the splash down destination; OR only the stream of water and its splash down destination. Not part of the pipe and the splash down is missing.
Fine tune this very important point and I think your photography is intriguing, interesting, excellent.
You seem to have a good eye for basic “rules” of composition - the rule of thirds, or etc. etc. I could go into a long soliloquy of what all those rules are, but they’re mostly instinctive - once you take enough pictures, you sort of just figure them out and do them naturally.
What I would suggest is that you switch your camera to shooting only black and white for awhile. Because your tonal ranges and such are excellent, I think the easiest way for you to noticeably improve is to spend some time improving your contrast, balance, and the “lines” in your pictures. The easiest way to do this is by shooting black and white, because it forces you to see in grayscale and to look at something in a different way than you’re used to. If you just do that for awhile, I think you’ll instinctively “get” it.
i like your pictures for the most part, there’s only one i can give you some constructive criticism about, this picture:
i don’t believe in using flash when you don’t have to. I mean, you could have taken a different approach to taking this picture you could have put the camera on manual, and then you could have opened up the aperture/close it down, depending on the light, and lower the shutter speed to around 3″ all the way to 30″ depending on how dark/lit the room is, and then, the image wouldn’t be under-exposed, it would be like using the flash, but you don’t have that dramatic darkness in the background of the pictures..
you could have made the water coming out of the faucet look more ‘ milky ‘ as they say, and you could see that it was flowing, it would be something nice and new for you to try.
oh, and the pictures on the second page are great, i didn’t see them at first.
They’re very gorgeous pictures.
Have you tried selective desaturation?
For the flower picture, that would look great, if you used selective desaturation.
I looked at your question title and said to myself “ah, another one”. There’s been so many people asking to comment on their basic snapshots lately…
I was pleasantly surprised! I really like your photography. You certainly have a good eye! And good control of your camera! Agree, that water faucet picture is a bit out of line with the rest, but in general you’re doing very well!
One advice I have for you so far:
Don’t listen to any “formal” advices!
Look around you - note a worthwhile subject, then look through the viewfinder, compose and shoot!
Somebody suggested that you follow some well known rules - like not cutting the corners and such. I would respectfully disagree. The rules of composition are the nutshell. Something to start with. But some of the best works of photography I’ve seen are so good because they break the rules!
Follow all the rules, and you’ll be shooting like everyone else. Yes, you can’t just break them. But if you have an eye for it (and you certainly do), you can bend them! Forget the thirds, get your lines mixed up, cut, crop and drop the symmetry. If the resulting image is pleasing to the eye, that’s all I care about when I look at a photograph. I rarely come to them with a ruler and check the balances. After all when looking through a viewfinder, if all you think of is thirds, and balances - you may just as well get yourself so preoccupied with that that you’d miss a great shot that’s beyond those rules!
If you don’t know how to compose - follow the rules. If you know all the rules - break them and create a real art!
Keep on the good work!
LEM.
P.S. Yeah, so all that said - judging from your style, you may eventually benefit from an ultra wide or even fisheye lens, but those beasts are expensive….
Comments on Any tips on improving my photography?
Amy
Your Photography looks good but if you are wanting to change it. Check out different lenses and maybe different angles and see what happens
Keira
don’t cut off elbows and corners toes foot hand edge of the flower in pictures
2, 3, 7, 13, 21, 23, 26
Try to include the whole object, and less of the wasted space, like in front of the girl on the surf board but her feet are missing.
I picture 3, don’t use a flash or prevent the distracting shadow, It would be a lot more interesting to see where the water lands and splashes in the sink and to keep it complete, either include the whole pipe/faucet with the stream of water and the splash down destination; OR only the stream of water and its splash down destination. Not part of the pipe and the splash down is missing.
Fine tune this very important point and I think your photography is intriguing, interesting, excellent.
PS - I love that fun smile on your avatar picture
Adriana
You seem to have a good eye for basic “rules” of composition - the rule of thirds, or etc. etc. I could go into a long soliloquy of what all those rules are, but they’re mostly instinctive - once you take enough pictures, you sort of just figure them out and do them naturally.
What I would suggest is that you switch your camera to shooting only black and white for awhile. Because your tonal ranges and such are excellent, I think the easiest way for you to noticeably improve is to spend some time improving your contrast, balance, and the “lines” in your pictures. The easiest way to do this is by shooting black and white, because it forces you to see in grayscale and to look at something in a different way than you’re used to. If you just do that for awhile, I think you’ll instinctively “get” it.
Best of luck!
Amiya
i like your pictures for the most part, there’s only one i can give you some constructive criticism about, this picture:
i don’t believe in using flash when you don’t have to. I mean, you could have taken a different approach to taking this picture you could have put the camera on manual, and then you could have opened up the aperture/close it down, depending on the light, and lower the shutter speed to around 3″ all the way to 30″ depending on how dark/lit the room is, and then, the image wouldn’t be under-exposed, it would be like using the flash, but you don’t have that dramatic darkness in the background of the pictures..
you could have made the water coming out of the faucet look more ‘ milky ‘ as they say, and you could see that it was flowing, it would be something nice and new for you to try.
oh, and the pictures on the second page are great, i didn’t see them at first.
Jaylin
They’re very gorgeous pictures.
Have you tried selective desaturation?
For the flower picture, that would look great, if you used selective desaturation.
Donovan
I looked at your question title and said to myself “ah, another one”. There’s been so many people asking to comment on their basic snapshots lately…
I was pleasantly surprised! I really like your photography. You certainly have a good eye! And good control of your camera! Agree, that water faucet picture is a bit out of line with the rest, but in general you’re doing very well!
One advice I have for you so far:
Don’t listen to any “formal” advices!
Look around you - note a worthwhile subject, then look through the viewfinder, compose and shoot!
Somebody suggested that you follow some well known rules - like not cutting the corners and such. I would respectfully disagree. The rules of composition are the nutshell. Something to start with. But some of the best works of photography I’ve seen are so good because they break the rules!
Follow all the rules, and you’ll be shooting like everyone else. Yes, you can’t just break them. But if you have an eye for it (and you certainly do), you can bend them! Forget the thirds, get your lines mixed up, cut, crop and drop the symmetry. If the resulting image is pleasing to the eye, that’s all I care about when I look at a photograph. I rarely come to them with a ruler and check the balances. After all when looking through a viewfinder, if all you think of is thirds, and balances - you may just as well get yourself so preoccupied with that that you’d miss a great shot that’s beyond those rules!
If you don’t know how to compose - follow the rules. If you know all the rules - break them and create a real art!
Keep on the good work!
LEM.
P.S. Yeah, so all that said - judging from your style, you may eventually benefit from an ultra wide or even fisheye lens, but those beasts are expensive….