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Portfolio critique requested, thank you :)
DallasP:
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 04, 2019, 11:41 --- horizontal images tend to work in many more cases than verticals
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They also display better on most of the sites.
ole999:
Your images are too dull. You have to lean how to get them to pop up ...!
Enclosed just a quick example. :)
ShadySue:
--- Quote from: DallasP on January 05, 2019, 15:04 ---
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 04, 2019, 11:41 --- horizontal images tend to work in many more cases than verticals
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They also display better on most of the sites.
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Square tends to display best, but there doesn't seem to be as much demand for square format.
Anyway, you can now take close up, space included, horizontal and vertical of many subjects.
rinderart:
Looked at your port. I'll tell ya what I said a few 100 Times to others out of the many 1000's of critiques I've given and answers Pulled from doing stock since 1968 and shooting 61 years and teaching for 10. "You need to start Making Photographs and Not Just Taking Pictures that anyone can do" . Stop with the verticals as said, at best... shoot Horizontal and If ya have to for some reason..... cover the subject closer with a vertical but Place it far away from the Horizontal. Like another page.. when You submit horizontal a Buyer can Make a vertical or any other format from It. submitting vertical leaves no room to do anything and you have closed off any Value whatsoever.. Backyard flowers will Not sell. Your Port is filled with Low usage Images. I saw nothing that was Unique. Heres another quote. "I know, without a doubt There are 50 Unique Images Not More than 75 ft from where your sitting Right Now" Your Job is to see them.
Commercial Photography Is certainly Not for everyone.Thank God....LOL. It takes another skill level to make Images with Value if making any Money is your goal.Getting accepted Nowdays is the easiest thing you can do...Sadly. selling is difficult, selling well is a artform.
My advice would be to delete as many as you can. especially all verticals....Then. take a month, Make a List of everything that Interests you Because thats what will help you Become Unique. Just walking around is not gonna get it done My friend. then......When you have a list I want you to Take another Month and search all those subjects and see where the BAR is set. And simply do as well and You might do a Lot Better or you may Find Out this isn't for you, which should make No difference for your enjoyment Of Taking Pictures. Making Money is another Game completely and it is a game trust me which very few know how to Play... And seriously requires a commercial Mindset. Stock is far down the List Of what I do to earn a Living. The changes have become another discussion altogether.
I would also Include people doing what people do called Lifestyle. That doesn't mean another silly Pic of 3 Office workers behind a computer that was done to death 14 years ago. people having Fun,Seniors,Kids whatever.People in any form has always been #1 and Probably always will be.
Im doing Micro since the beginning. I only Have 6900+ Images. why is because I have Just about every category. from food to Bugs,to landscape all Over the country,to Glamour to animals to Hard hitting emotions and scenarios Of Racism to depression to Joy and so on and so on. I shoot what turns me on Because I've never met one person from a gallery Curator to a stock Employee or anyone else that knew what will be Popular or sell.!!!I probably never will. I know folks doing this with 50,000+ Images that can't sell Much and I also Know quite a few with 500 that do better that most here. My Music Copyrights,Extremely Old clients,Galleries,Set decorators and My agent are what I live on. stock Is simply going away from greed,Indifference and management decisions. I don't submit anywhere near as Much as I used to. other things to do and much more lucrative.
So...In conclusion Take the High road even If certain well Known sites don't anymore, Submit Only what you consider your best and try your best to make a difference. And When You learn something.....Share it. And good Luck.
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/rinder99?language=en
Ukko:
All your images looked like to me as they are straight from the camera with no post processing or image adjustment. I think you need to improve your editing skills more. I mean, they are not bad but they could be much, much better.
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