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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Are my photos good enough to sell??Question: Are my photos good enough to sell!?!? i've just started with the whole photo taking and am just looking for somebody's honest opinion on my pics thanks
http://s385!.photobucket!.com/albums/oo300!.!.!. tell me what you think!.!. and please be honest i added a few of the edited versions aswell!.!. thanks again :) Andy Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Sorry Andy, but no, they really are not!. PLEASE try to find something more interesting and original than flowers to photograph!. That is sooooo overdone and common!. And sorry to say, yours are not even very good flower photos!. A little dull and not especially sharp!. The photos with the picnic table are really bad!. I don't know if you were striving for an artistic type of photo, but it just does not come off!. The last shot in which the tree is occupying half the frame is really terrible!. I do think you may have potential!. Just do some brainstorming and take some original photos!. Be aware of your composition and shoot at unusual perspectives!. The common CAN be made interesting if you work at it!. Keep trying! :-) Here are some of mine to give you some ideas of what I mean!. http://www!.lightanon!.com steveWww@QuestionHome@Com Like any other skill, photography is learned through education and practice!. It does not come the minute a camera is in your hands!.You need to invest time and energy into understanding lighting, composition and the technical aspects of photography!. Take a class or join your local camera club to learn what makes an image appear "professional"!. There are also a few editing tricks to give your image the edge and you will learn them there!. It appears you are enjoying taking pictures, but at this point they are far from commercial quality!. Good luck with it and keep shooting!Www@QuestionHome@Com The flowers:no!. Unoriginal treatment of a very hackneyed subject!. The picnic table: emphatically no!. Who on Earth do you think this would appeal to!? Go to a poster shop!. Look at the stuff that's selling!. Look at the way it's been seen and composed!. Look at the technical quality!. Be honest with yourself!. Do you think these photos are in that league!?Www@QuestionHome@Com I would not buy them but you never know!. If you can find a place to sell them (or post them for sale) and you don't have to pay then post them!.!.!.the more you have for sale the more people might buy!.!.!. hopefully!. Then you will figure out what work people are willing to buy off you good luck and don't get discouragedWww@QuestionHome@Com They are good but not good enough to sell sorry!. If you really want to sell your pictures you have to do something different that people have not seen before!! You are on the right track but you need more practice before you will be able to sell your photos!!Www@QuestionHome@Com I cant view it because i dont know the password!.Www@QuestionHome@Com only the sunset one!.!.!.!.sorry!.!.!.i see alot of pics and most of those are genericWww@QuestionHome@Com cant view it try using flickr!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Edit: Well Andy, I do not believe them to be interesting enough to sell!. It's not that they are bad, or good per se, but there is nothing at all unique enough to inspire me to buy them from you then display them anywhere in my home!. They are common, everyday images of flowers that anyone could do using their point and shoot digicams themselves!. The one's with the park bench sort of annoy me, to be honest!. There is no reason why the bench should be blurred, in my mind's eye!. Usually, if you are going to intentionally blur an element of a scene, you must have something in focus to bring it into perspective!. A few leaves and a tree trunk is not the sort of thing I would associate with the separation that is implied by a composition of that type!. I think you have an idea in your head of what you want to show us, but I don't think you're executing it right !. This technique usually works best with people, or at least an object with which we can identify!. I think you should try harder to define the story that would come from such a composition, and not simply that you can compose it in that way!. In the silhouette of the leaves against the sunset, there is no scope!. It's so nondescript that I can't even really pinpoint what I don't like about it - I just know that I don't!. And selective color is a cutesy way of showing off a photoshop technique and not something that is in any way artistic in its expression given subject!. And given the subject of flowers, is not something that most would line up to have hanging in their powder rooms!. I hope that I have not offended you with my comments!. It's just that the first thing some people do after they either buy a camera, or learn a new photoshop technique is think that what they do is considered art, then try to solicit commission based on that belief!. It is my hope that you can somehow find expression within your work because it's obvious to me that you have skill and interest!. Your next step is to nurture that skill to find out whether what you've got is a talent which needs a foundation of technical and artistic knowledge - or simply a skill for taking the better of the pictures at your next family gathering!. I see it everyday!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |