Need a kick.....please critique

July 27th, 2011
I've been around a while now and have my faithful few that help boost my ego.....but I feel at a standstill and need a kick. Please take a few looks and tell me what to improve on. I'm trying to start my own thing for a little cash so my focus right now is with portraits.

Thanks!!
July 27th, 2011
try tagging your pics "critique-me" - it helps people know you want the critique :-)

July 27th, 2011
I looked at some of your portraits. They are nice, but the lighting is flat in many of them. Looks like straight-on flash. If you can get some light from the side it will improve those a lot I think. Either off-camera flash or bouncing the flash off a wall or reflector. Or better, using natural light from about a 45 degree angle, just not straight on.
July 28th, 2011
Sorry, I realize now I only looked at your main album. Have looked at more portraits in the other album. They are really nice, nicely processed, good poses and so forth. I'd still like to see some of them with some light from the side. These look like glamour shots, where I guess front on lighting is done, so there's nothing wrong with it, in fact i really like most of them, but you might want to mix it up a bit, I think you'll get more depth to the images if you have that side lighting
July 28th, 2011
@parisouailleurs @mikew Thanks. Michael, lights are in the works. Right now all I have is my hotshoe flash ;)
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