[P] Corpus Christi

[Jessweeee♪]

I'm considering a future in photography! I want your honest opinions here.


I took these on the hotel's sun deck during an anime convention. There was glass in the way to keep us from falling, so I had to take most of these through the glass :P

The third one is my personal favorite n.n

[fredsanford]

What do you wish to do with photography? I understand profession but there are alot of options with every field, do you plan on working in any of the above choices on a secret check list of yours or are you just getting the degree and looking for whatever shows up?

[Jessweeee♪]

I'm not totally sure yet, still giving that some thought n.n

[fredsanford]

Nice work :)

[Ace14]

The pictures are awesome! I like the 3rd and 4th one!

[Jessweeee♪]

Thanks a bunch n.n

[Mogi]

QUIDDITCH POLES YAY!

owait....

[Miriel]

Completely honest critique. I hardly ever give it in this forum because I know criticism is hard to take. But you did say that you were considering photography as a profession so... here goes.

None of the photos, except maybe the first one has any sort of focus. What is it that you want the viewer to see? You have way too many things cluttering every single frame that there is nothing to draw the eye. It's all over the place. Aside from the first one, there is hardly any composition within the photos.

Your first photo at least follows some of the rules of composition, namely the rule of thirds. You have your sky, that's 1 part of the composition. Followed by the horizen of trees. Then you have the foreground consisting of various city elements.

It's still very busy but at least there is some structure in the photo. The rest of your photos, don't have any sort of structure.

The 2nd one for example. Was it the building you wanted to target? The ocean? Or both?

The 3rd one, you have a street corner but then you have this lamp and stop lights popping out from the bottom right that disrupts the whole photo.

The 4th one. Again you have a cluttered photo. You have small parts of trees, a snippet of building, flag poles, a little bit of the ocean. And that photo is actually quite underexposed.

5th photo. Like the others, cluttered. It seems like you were going for a photo of the ocean but right in the center of the photo you have this lamp pole distracting your eyes away from the ocean.

In general I think you should study a bit more on composition. Also, playing with depth of field will help you immensely to really zero in on your subject. Even if you want to work with a very deep depth of field, you still don't want your photo to be cluttered with too many elements, especially elements that don't work well with each other and instead distracts the eye and confuses the photo.

Remember, this is all just my opinion, so take it for what you will.

[Rocket Edge]

None were really that great as such, but your only starting out. I'd like to see more to judge overall, but my views are simillar to Miriels.

[The Unknown Guru]

I really like the 2nd one, but the building kinda cuts off a big chunk of it. When I look at it, my eyes go to the ocean, and i would've liked to see more of it in the shot. Not bad for a beginner though :thumb:

[Jessweeee♪]

Completely honest critique. I hardly ever give it in this forum because I know criticism is hard to take. But you did say that you were considering photography as a profession so... here goes.

None of the photos, except maybe the first one has any sort of focus. What is it that you want the viewer to see? You have way too many things cluttering every single frame that there is nothing to draw the eye. It's all over the place. Aside from the first one, there is hardly any composition within the photos.

Your first photo at least follows some of the rules of composition, namely the rule of thirds. You have your sky, that's 1 part of the composition. Followed by the horizen of trees. Then you have the foreground consisting of various city elements.

It's still very busy but at least there is some structure in the photo. The rest of your photos, don't have any sort of structure.

The 2nd one for example. Was it the building you wanted to target? The ocean? Or both?

The 3rd one, you have a street corner but then you have this lamp and stop lights popping out from the bottom right that disrupts the whole photo.

The 4th one. Again you have a cluttered photo. You have small parts of trees, a snippet of building, flag poles, a little bit of the ocean. And that photo is actually quite underexposed.

5th photo. Like the others, cluttered. It seems like you were going for a photo of the ocean but right in the center of the photo you have this lamp pole distracting your eyes away from the ocean.

In general I think you should study a bit more on composition. Also, playing with depth of field will help you immensely to really zero in on your subject. Even if you want to work with a very deep depth of field, you still don't want your photo to be cluttered with too many elements, especially elements that don't work well with each other and instead distracts the eye and confuses the photo.

Remember, this is all just my opinion, so take it for what you will.

Thanks a bunch Miriel, I keep that in mind n.n

Basically right now I've got a camera and going "ooh pretty" *click* so I'll take what I can get XD