Is this worth pursuing?

[Eric Lefebvre]

1- Learn about compositional rules like the rule of thirds, the use of negative space, leading lines, the rule of odds ... right now, your pictures are all centered.

2- Dont do selective coloring ... just don't.

3- In your flower portfolio, some of the images are WAY over saturated.

4- Watch your depth of field. In your flower shots, you have a few shots that are out of focus or your depth of field was too shallow.

5- I have a feeling you shot these in full auto mode. this is an issue as it has caused some of your shots to have the subject under exposed. A good example of this is the rider standing on the back of two horses in your horse section.

6- You aren;t shooting fast enough ... you shutter speed (in the horse section) is too slow for the action in the scene and so oyu find yourself with alot of blur. speed up your shutter speed and compensate by increasing your ISO and/or in creasing your aperture (smaller f# = wider opening).

Also related to shutter speed and blur ... unless your lens has vibration reduction on it, you'll want to try and shoot at a shutter speed that is FASTER than the measurement of your current focal lenght. So if you are shooting with a 70-300 lens at 200mm you need to shoot faster than 1/200th of a second to help keep a nice crisp image ... if your lens has VR (or other similar system) then you can slow than down a bit ... also always keep the speed of the action in the scene in mind. Of course, the faster you shoot, the less light you get so you'll need to compensate by increasing your ISO or opening oyur lens wider (or adding more light with a flash or some such) ... photography is all about give and take betwen the various settings.

7- When shooting outdoors, it;s not a bad idea to use your lens hood ... it will help with contrast. You don't HAVE to shoot with a hood but it can help with contrast.

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That's enough to get started with. You really should start learning the ART aspect of photography ... 95% of your images, the subject/point of interest is smack dab right in the middle of the shot ... pick up some books on composition.

You might also want to go with a gallery that doesn't use Flash. Because of your galery system, I wasn't able to link directly to any images to give you a detailed critique of specific images. It also makes your site not very tablet friendly ... IPADS and IPHONES don't have flash after all.