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Hi guys I am new to MI and would like to get a port review and any advice you may have on improving it.
thanks
Let's start with this:
From your profile: "I shoot fashion, editorial, and glamour."
OK.
All your images are in the same gallery, none of them are listed as being in the fashion, editorial or glamour genre. A lot of them leave the genre unspecified, and the remainder say they are "art".
I can't tell, from looking at them, why some are "art" and some of the others are not. And I don't know which, if any, you think are fashion, editorial or glamour.
How about you back off a request for a port review, which is hard, since your stated criteria aren't easy to apply to the pictures in it, and ask instead for a critique of one image. Pick one, tell us what genre you intend it to be in, and what the purpose of the shot is. For example, if it's "editorial", what kind of editorial, in what publication?
Then you may get a more meaningful critique.
Can't tell you why some were set as art. They should all be unclassified.
Thank you for taking the time to write all that.
I didn't look at any of your personal information because I didn't want it to sway my impressions, so i don't even know if you're a guy or a girl. I don't know what access you have to stylists or models or anything, so take this with a grain of salt.
You have knowledge of a camera, you can expose and compose fairly well, and that's where it ends. Your folio looks like every other folio of a somewhat accomplished technician, which is to say, boring. The poses are predictable and stilted, the wardrobes are common and unimaginative, the models are pleasant looking yet unpolished. And for the life of me I don't understand why the hand to the back of the head, or worse yet, Peter Flanagan's patented two hands above the head pose, is so popular with shooters like you.
And this picture...
Teal nail polish with purple shoes is the visual parallel to dill pickles and ice cream, what were you thinking.
You seem to want to be a fashion photographer, try studying guys like Steven Meisel and Demarchelier for fashion. If you want to be a portrait photographer, try studying guys like Greg Heisler, Arnold Newman, Irving Penn or Albert Watson. When you can honestly say that your work is coming close to theirs, you won't need input from anyone else.
Sorry for being so brutal.
Kevlar Vest Girl wrote:
You have knowledge of a camera, you can expose and compose fairly well, and that's where it ends. Your folio looks like every other folio of a somewhat accomplished technician, which is to say, boring. The poses are predictable and stilted, the wardrobes are common and unimaginative, the models are pleasant looking yet unpolished. And for the life of me I don't understand why the hand to the back of the head, or worse yet, Peter Flanagan's patented two hands above the head pose, is so popular with shooters like you.
Teal nail polish with purple shoes is the visual parallel to dill pickles and ice cream, what were you thinking.
You seem to want to be a fashion photographer, try studying guys like Steven Meisel and Demarchelier for fashion. If you want to be a portrait photographer, try studying guys like Greg Heisler, Arnold Newman, Irving Penn or Albert Watson. When you can honestly say that your work is coming close to theirs, you won't need input from anyone else.
Sorry for being so brutal.
Thank you very much. No need to apologize as brutal honesty is what I am looking for.
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