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Hi everyone! I would appreciate a critique of my portfolio.Thanks alot.
vlassisd:
Hi there,
I have around 500 images and just to speak with numbers i`ve made 118 sales so far.Do you think that my images don`t have commercial value or they are not well executed? Or just maybe the stock is very saturated and i shouldn`t expect anything better. For me this is a part time job and i`m trying to increase my portfolio and whatever comes.I love photography and i will keep shooting whatever what but i would like to know if i can improve.
That`s my link: https://www.shutterstock.com/g/dimitris+vlassis?language=en
Thanks in advance!
Brasilnut:
--- Quote ---Hi there,
I have around 500 images and just to speak with numbers i`ve made 118 sales so far.Do you think that my images don`t have commercial value or they are not well executed? Or just maybe the stock is very saturated and i shouldn`t expect anything better. For me this is a part time job and i`m trying to increase my portfolio and whatever comes.I love photography and i will keep shooting whatever what but i would like to know if i can improve.
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Yassou Dimitrios!
My first comment is that you have almost no editorials and as a travel photographer it can be extremely difficult to capture places without people. I would advise you not to be shy about submitting editorial images...they can do as well and in some cases even better than commercial images.
As for your existing images, you embrace the dark side as many of your images have quite dark undertones / themes. This is cool but I must say that for stock it's not ideal. If you're going to do travel photos, it's best to have them bright, vibrant (not saturated) and full of copy space (for buyers to insert text if they wish to do so). Some of your beach scenes are nice but they're not stock, they're fine art prints...to make them into stock you have to think about how a potential buyer would use such scenes to promote a product and/or service. Let's suppose a travel company wants to promote Corfu, they'll more likely use a sunny image with happy smiling tourists and delicious food, in my opinion. Some of your fine art may do well as Print on Demand on Fine Art America, for example.
As for still life, it's not really my thing but from a quick glance, they also look underexposed and or badly executed as the attached. You're lucky as only a few years ago Shutterstock would have rejected this for weak composition.
Good luck file
vlassisd:
@Brasilnut
Thank you very much my friend.I really appreciate four feedback. Very valuable and some good tips.Thanks again.
Brightontl:
--- Quote from: vlassisd on November 10, 2017, 09:35 ---Hi there,
I have around 500 images and just to speak with numbers i`ve made 118 sales so far.Do you think that my images don`t have commercial value or they are not well executed? Or just maybe the stock is very saturated and i shouldn`t expect anything better. For me this is a part time job and i`m trying to increase my portfolio and whatever comes.I love photography and i will keep shooting whatever what but i would like to know if i can improve.
That`s my link: https://www.shutterstock.com/g/dimitris+vlassis?language=en
Thanks in advance!
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Many of your images are good, you also don't have too many repetitions, which is very good and your results so far are quite encouraging for a start.
IMO you can improve a lot with better post production: many of your images are slightly under exposed, or lack of contrast or saturation
Chichikov:
I have noticed too that most of your images are a little dark.
It could be a problem of the setting of the luminosity of the monitor.
Some computers monitors like the new iMacs are very (too much) luminous if you push the luminosity to the maximum, so you can get underexposed images if you only use your eyes to post produce and don't use numbers to understand the real values.
I hope that this can help you to set better your monitor (mostly luminosity and contrast, as for color it is better to use a calibration system)
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
(You should see all the levels of white to black in "Black level" and "White saturation")
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