(posted 8582 days ago)Buddy, I've been looking at your site. You got the touch, dude, if you're only 19, you totally rule. Follow your eye, trust it, it's good. Here's a few things-
Don't show the ones that aren't lit right, are too dark, or have nothing in focus. (Maybe its your scanner, but you've got a few of these.) Maybe you've figured this out already. I keep these almost-theres in a "sketchbook", I look at them often for ideas, but i don't show them like they were finished. Some people on this list think technical failures are artistic, and maybe they're right, but you've got other work to do than spending time defending that position.
This one for example doesn't look sharp, and it should. The print probably is. Every time you scan you should run the sharpening command on whatever program you're using before you save the file....
You don't have to add any information to these images to make them stand out- they're doing that already. An image should work without a caption- Like songwriters who spend a half an hour introducing a three minute song- let the song explain itself- if it's good it will. You almost can't get around not having captions, but keep them short and in the background....
I just read a biography of Diane Arbus by a woman named Patricia Boswell. There were many insights into what makes a photographer an artist in this book. One of them was (paraphrased): "In great portraits, there is a moment of connection, or transference between the photographer and the model that is visible in the photograph..."
You've got this going on all over the place. Don't look back...