Do I take good photos??

I really enjoy photography. My pictures focus primarily on nature and animals. I use a Nikon CoolPix L14 digital camera and I am 14 years old. Here are some of my favorite photos I have taken: LOOK AT BOTH PAGES!! THERE ARE TWO! :D





http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x144/...





To get a better view of a certain picture, please click on it to ENLARGE it!! I don%26#039;t edit any of my photos, by the way.





PLEASE take a look at all of them and tell me what you think of them. Any suggestion would be wonderful! :) Thanks.





And I%26#039;m not the kind of girl who takes pictures of herself for myspace or the like. I take pictures because it%26#039;s a passion for me and I love to do it. I like capturing moments many don%26#039;t take the chance to see. I haven%26#039;t been to many extravagant places in which I can take amazing pictures, but what I shoot from home is good I think.Thanks again.
Do I take good photos??
The last 4 were stunning!!!!!


But I think you need some work on the aim.


But besides that those pics were awesome!!!


I wish I could buy them and frame them!
Do I take good photos??
well you seem very passionate about photography and that is the first thing you need to become a good photographer...





The photos aren%26#039;t that great to be honest... Yes they are nice, but nothing that stands out or makes you stop to look at them twice.





I%26#039;d recommend focusing more on the horses and less on the cat. Try to find unusual things to photograph and try to stray away from the cliche%26#039;s like cats, piano keys and house pets.





Also, I think your photos would really benefit from editing.
Reply:I don%26#039;t really like the ones you did with the animals too much. They seem too much like a small child did them...not so much like they have an artistic flair to it like I think you were trying (too hard) to do. BUT the ones of the flowers and the streams were pretty good. Keep working at it and I think you%26#039;ll end up pretty good :-)
Reply:I really love photography too.


they%26#039;re pretty I really like the cat looking in the window :)


you have a future


good luck with your photography
Reply:Alot of your photographs seem to be taken from the exact same distance. That is the right approach in some of the pictures (the close-up on the simple keyboard keys or the leaf in the road, for example) but crunch framing animals is usually never a good idea.





A good rule of thumb is that the object being photographed and emphasized in frame should be either completely in frame or predominantely in frame, with only a portion being cropped. For example, if you were to take a picture of your baby brother, you wouldn%26#039;t frame his face to that the upper right and left portions of the frame were cutting off the contour of his head, you would pull the frame back and crop him off at the neck or lower, since your main emphasis (his expression) and the surrounding features of it, would be kept in frame.





Your picture of your cat sitting under a stool is a good example of cutting off something unnecessarily. The cat%26#039;s expression is good, and so is the way the environment creates an artificial box within the frame, but since the cat is a small enough animal as it is, cutting him/her off above the feet undercuts the affect. What it does is make the viewer mentally recreate what the cat is standing on, where his feet are, thus pulling attention away from the focus of the picture: that human expression of %26#039;what am I doing here and what is that thing?%26quot;





A better example of frame cropping is the picture of your cat staring out the window. Because the presence of shade on either side of the cat creates an artificial curtain, emphasizing the slice of light squarely running down the center of the picture, which is where the cat%26#039;s attention is poised in the picture, the fact that its only a 3/4 picture of the cat doesn%26#039;t affect it because the picture directs the viewer to the main point of focus and intent. The viewer doesn%26#039;t need to see the entire cat because the viewer intuitively understands that what is important is already framed by the use of shade and light. In addition, because the picture is about anticipation (the cat%26#039;s attention being directed towards something outside the frame creates a similar tension within the viewer%26#039;s own seeing) the lack of fully formed shapes coincides with the metaphoric %26#039;incomplete%26#039; anticipation of the reader%26#039;s attention: what is he/she looking at? just as the cat%26#039;s attention is focused, so too is the viewer%26#039;s by the arrangement, which means anything else visually is unecessary.





Pictures aren%26#039;t just pictures, they are stories, reasons, explanations. What you leave in the frame, and what you leave out, is of primary importance to what it is you want the viewer to take with them. A good picture leaves the viewer asking questions about the content, not wondering about how different the picture would look if the photographer had moved back a few paces. Everything the viewer needs to know should always and forever be captured in that little box. Concentrate on what is in frame, and what you want to be in frame, and build from there.
Reply:Most of them are OK.


The ones i really like are:2nd one on the first page. The 2nd, 4th, and 5th on last page.





Those ones were really outstanding and beautiful.





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