/p/ - Photography » Thread #3036024

[25 / 5 / ?]

3MiB, 1796x1190, Screen Shot 2017-03-08 at 11.37.36 pm.png

Portrait photo critique

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 15:44:23 No.3036024 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>3036048 >>3036097 >>3036323 >>3036575

Hey guys!
Thought I'd share some of my recent portraits - at the moment I am working on trying to develop my own unique "style" but its hard to stand out from others sometimes!
Please let me know what you think/what I can improve, and also please post some of your portraits also!

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO Screen Shot 2017-03-08 at 11.38. (...).png, 1MiB, 806x1198

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 15:45:40 No.3036027 Report

Quoted By: >>3036048

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO Screen Shot 2017-03-08 at 11.37. (...).png, 1MiB, 800x1196

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 15:46:50 No.3036028 Report

Quoted By: >>3036048 >>3036059

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO Screen Shot 2017-03-08 at 11.38. (...).png, 3MiB, 1792x1194

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 15:48:26 No.3036031 Report

Quoted By: >>3036048 >>3036323

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 16:49:59 No.3036048 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036028
Love this one with the shadow. A touch of constructivism in the background. A bit surreal, oneiric. Good composition.

>>3036027
What has she got to do with tennis?

>>3036031
The glasses are ok I guess. Don't like the instagram vsco colours. Bad composition.

>>3036024
Cliche. Not a big fan.

Experiment with different subjects like old wrinkly men. Do something interesting with the lighting. Try street photography. Try analog. Try to make backgrounds say something about your subjects.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 17:19:33 No.3036059 Report

Quoted By: >>3036194

>>3036028
weird sharp halos around hand especially on the thumb at bottom. too much shoop?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 17:48:01 No.3036075 Report

Quoted By: >>3036084

theres already a portrait thread you attention hungry cock guzzler

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 17:59:45 No.3036084 Report

Quoted By: >>3036096

Your unique style looks pretty generic to me, to be honest. The execution is alright but not excellent, but these photos just seem like pretty girl tumblr/instagram fodder. If you're hiring models you don't know well, then are you trying to convey any sort of message or idea by photographing them? Or if the models are people you know well, then are you trying to convey anything about their personality through the photos of them? I think having good content will make your photos stand out better than trying to push some sort of style because your style is going to have to be really exaggerated and gimmicky if style is all your photos have.

>>3036075
>encouraging more generals and recent photo toilets
>discouraging people from posting individual photo threads on /p/
Fuck off. If OP has a coherent set of photos to post then he's more than justified in making a thread for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 18:29:39 No.3036096 Report

Quoted By: >>3036135

>>3036084
>your unique style looks pretty generic to me
>discouraging people from posting individual photo threads
>encouraging more generals

which one is it gonna be??? you just said his photos look generic lol fuck off

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 18:31:18 No.3036097 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036024
at the end of the day style is only good if people like it, so if your photos look like generic tumblr shit then who cares as long as your clients like it and pay for it

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO DSCF8871.jpg, 228KiB, 667x1000

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 19:24:13 No.3036116 Report

Quoted By: >>3036140 >>3036594 >>3036599 >>3037369

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 20:37:19 No.3036135 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036096
They don't have to be good, /p/ is a forgotten backwater of a fucking japanese cartoon porn enthusiast forum not a curated gallery. As long as the photos show at least a little bit of effort and skill then I would rather see a thread about photos than yet another thread either trying to combine every single post on the whole board into a single thread or asking which Sony camera to buy to take macro photographs of your cat's anus on a budget of $1.35.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 21:05:31 No.3036140 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036116
10/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 22:50:30 No.3036185 Report

Quoted By: >>3036410

>trying to be unique
>it's hard to stand out

>Crushes blacks and whites like every other instafag out there
>Uses cliche as fuck colour styles
>Probably trying to get recognised on Instagram rather than appeal to the community around him to get work

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2017 23:16:27 No.3036194 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036059
I see that sometimes with CA removal, software trying to fix something that wasn't broken.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Mar 2017 00:01:02 No.3036203 Report

Quoted By:

As ``generic'' as the post-processing is, I personally like it. It wouldn't be generic if it wasn't popular, it wouldn't be popular if a lot of people didn't like it.

I'd rather see a lot more individual photo threads than gear threads, isn't that what /p/ aspires to?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Mar 2017 07:26:38 No.3036317 Report

Quoted By:

Stop thinking about your "unique style" as it's an end in itself and start thinking about what you want to tell with the pics you take.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Mar 2017 07:57:29 No.3036323 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036031
curious, how did you achieve this? It's a style I see everywhere, but I haven't been able to achieve it. Photoshop? My post-prod is a bit wank.

>>3036024
I'm remoting in, but this looks a bit soft. This is really nice though. your colours are great. Goddamn, my shit is so flat in comparison

BJDrew !!LkyLqEm9G0v

BJDrew !!LkyLqEm9G0v Thu 09 Mar 2017 13:31:35 No.3036394 Report

Quoted By:

I see three distinct looks.
The hard sun ones are interesting to me. I like shooting in gard sun and dealing with it. You did that pretty well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Mar 2017 14:40:49 No.3036410 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036185
>crushed blacks
Where? You don't know what crushed blacks are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Mar 2017 21:55:22 No.3036575 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036024
Not to kill your creativity or whatever but...

My photography teacher always told me to find a photographer that I liked and just copy them for the best results.

But who knows. Maybe when you die your stuff will be famous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Mar 2017 22:02:51 No.3036579 Report

Quoted By:

Looks good. Try and decide what you want to focus on. At the moment the bush in the background is a bit distracting. I commend the composition though. The lines of the bush are striking and the girl is front and centre. She is clearly the subject. Maybe try stopping down a bit. Get the background a but more blurry. Lighting looks good though.

As for your own style, try and fiddle around with everything. You can only gain experience. Find out what you like and then apply it to other shoots.

Other than that great shot. Keep up the good work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Mar 2017 22:50:48 No.3036594 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036116
1/10, discard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Mar 2017 23:01:27 No.3036599 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036116
Is that Keith Richards? :)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Mar 2017 16:20:03 No.3037369 Report

Quoted By:

>>3036116
you need to turn on the lights, I can't see anything!

Capcode	All Only User Posts Only Verified Posts Only Moderator Posts Only Manager Posts Only Admin Posts Only Developer Posts Only Founder Posts
Show Posts	All Only With Images Only Without Images Only Spoiler Images Only Non-Spoiler Images
Deleted Posts	All Only Deleted Posts Only Non-Deleted Posts
Ghost Posts	All Only Ghost Posts Only Non-Ghost Posts
Post Type	All Only Sticky Threads Only Opening Posts Only Reply Posts
Results	All Grouped By Threads
Order	Latest Posts First Oldest Posts First

On these archives

Your latest searches

Portrait photo critique