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Portfolio Photos ! [NF56K]

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I'll be presenting a number of works to the Betzalel Academy of Fine arts this Friday to finish up the field course I took with them during this semester.

I can't say that the course contributed much to my knowledge, talents or understanding, or even to my venturing forth to fresh new locations.
Still, I always enjoy photographing, it helped me get to know some of my photographer friends better, and it helped set a watermark to improve over. (And it counts as academic credit!)

Some of the pictures I'll be submitting weren't taken during the course, some not even over the past year.

Tell me what YOU think:

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South Pick-55
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IMG_0688
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IMG_0051
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Ski-57
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IMG_0245
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Chicago-5
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IMG_0253
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TelAviv 18-05-2010 09-41-30
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IMG_0017
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IMG_0129
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Select 23-04-2010 10-44-50
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IMG_0072
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Iceland-39
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Too many images to comment individually, so I just pick the best and the worst. There aren't any really bad photographs in your selection, but some of them are just OK rather than really good.

The Good:

I have a soft spot for photographs approaching abstract art, especially if it's a landscape like this. In my opinion this is a gallery-worthy shot:

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Your best people picture in this selection, somewhat ironically, since one can't see his face:

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The best "classic" landscape here:

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Very good interior shot with almost perfect composition, or at least I can't find any fault in it:

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The merely OK:

Ahh yes, the gratuitous young female portrait. Her pose is OK, but I'm not sure about the composition. Her legs appear slightly too much out of nowhere on the right side, but not enough to make it the central idea of the photograph, which is still clearly her face and expression.

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If i may add, posed portraiture is fucking difficult. It's good to practice though, since shooting young women can have added benefits to a heterosexual male photographer when he gets older. The old stories are at least partially based on reality, if you know what I mean. :mrgreen:

This picture is, at the risk of sounding banal, too busy. The pin-up girl is the central element at least to me, but then there's all kinds of stuff including another scantily clothed female form on top of it. Perhaps I just don't get it and it may be genius:

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This does not work for me either. The trees spoil the initial abstract impression and the color gradient is too shallow. Or perhaps I am to understand it :wink:

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Can you say cliché. It might work as radical interior decorative element if printed at poster size, but the eye close up shot is as old as your standard dramatic lighting sunset shot. Which I am guilty of taking, but that's besides the point. Technically it is very good, though.

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The rest are all quite good, although the child shot is also kind of standard stuff, good but not great.
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OK, THANKS! That's very helpful critique, and I was deliberating whether to include exactly those shots you flagged as weak (and the baby - Which I'm barely considering due to the nice beauty fill light effect of the plastic cup)
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The Grim Squeaker wrote:OK, THANKS! That's very helpful critique, and I was deliberating whether to include exactly those shots you flagged as weak (and the baby - Which I'm barely considering due to the nice beauty fill light effect of the plastic cup)
If you really feel some of those shots I didn't like so much is great, you should of course include it anyways, especially if you have a clear idea why you like it so much. Now, this might be obvious to you, and if it is my apologies in advance, but I just want to remind you that although critique may be helpful, you should not let it constrain your vision.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote:
The Grim Squeaker wrote:OK, THANKS! That's very helpful critique, and I was deliberating whether to include exactly those shots you flagged as weak (and the baby - Which I'm barely considering due to the nice beauty fill light effect of the plastic cup)
If you really feel some of those shots I didn't like so much is great, you should of course include it anyways, especially if you have a clear idea why you like it so much. Now, this might be obvious to you, and if it is my apologies in advance, but I just want to remind you that although critique may be helpful, you should not let it constrain your vision.
Critique is always helpful, and I never let it constrain my vision (or lack of thereof) ;).
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