Are my pictures good?

[Lindsay]

Please check out my photography and let me know what you think!!
And please like my page if you like my pictures!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lindsay-Os...1991033403

Thank you!!

[Steve P]

Good heavens freaking almighty. I sat there and scrolled for over 10 minutes and they STILL never stopped. How many gazillion photos have you dumped onto FaceCrap?

As for the photos themselves, some I saw looked pretty decent, others were nothing but horrid, terribly lit, terribly posed, terribly edited snapshots. The problem is there are so freaking many of them that people cannot begin to make any kind of assessment of the quality of work.

My best advice to you is to get your work OFF FaceCrap. Put your photos where you will at least have a chance of being taken seriously. At least get them on Flickr. Then, stop uploading every single shot you have ever taken in your whole life. Even the best photographers have to critique their work and cull out the duds.

Get your photos ORGANIZED. All you have is a vast, random scattering of photos with no rhyme or reason. Organize your work into galleries such as Children, Nature, Rustic, Travel, Family, Portraits, etc. Do something to create a sense of purpose and continuity.

People are not going to spend a day weeding through such a dis-jointed mass of photos to try to make some sense or it and / or to seek to weed out the good from the garbage.

No one can really know if your photos are "good" or not when there is such an overwhelming mass of them that you only incur boredom and frustration onto anyone looking at them.

steve

[Hondo]

Random snapshots are not photography.

[andy w]

I looked (regrettably) at your "newest photography".
Based on them then NO, your pictures are not good.

The kids portraits are terrible. They are badly underexposed and each and every one of them is taken from the wrong angle for kids shots.

The rest of the shots in that folder were just rather bad snapshots of random buildings etc.

[Eric Lefebvre]

Your portfolio should really be your top 30 - 40 shots, not 1030 random snapshots and even then, when asking for a critique, try to limit the selection to about 10-12 shots max.

I've randomly gone through your selection and no, you are not a good photographer.

Let's take at this picture for example:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=5...=3&theater

Blown highlights (the shirt melds into the background due to over exposure), wide angle distortion, cut of limbs (her left hand), the image is also not very crisp at all (look at the hair) and was most likely shot too wide open resulting in a shallow depth of field ... or it's just a result of facebook's horrible compression algorithm.

The other shots in that series suffer from similar issues but add the following to the list:
- Subject too close to background resulting in a shadow in the background.
- Background folds (you shouldn't even be able to see the background on a high key shot)
- Subject is always centered

The wide angle distortion on this shot makes the model look like a bobble head doll:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=5...=3&theater

You also don't seem to understand lighting ... you were obviously trying a high-key shot but didn't bother researching how that's done. You might also want to read up on basic portraiture lighting. A good place to start is the classics:
-Rembrandt lighting
-Butterfly lighting
-Loop lighting
-Glamour lighting
-Clam lighting

Right now, you are just someone with a fancy camera who doesn't really understand anything about the science or art of photography.Take a few courses, pick up a few books, join a photography club.

[Luke]

Most of them are snapshots. The black and white ones of the child in your Newest Photos album are overexposed and the pictures in "Chloe Year 2 Pictures" are almost obviously taken with a built in camera flash from the shadow in the background of the subject.

The only actual tolerable photos are the one of the bee (One of your cover photos) and the ones in the fall album. Even then, the pictures from the fall album have an excess amount of noise on which looks to be a pretty bright day.

[FrenchMontana]

They look like a ghetto hoodrat turned wanna be photographer took them.