Kenny Loc: Oregon

Very beautiful flowers, well done. The only suggestions I would have is to shoot or crop them off-center instead of right in the middle. The same goes for your daughter. It would be my choice to move her slightly to the left so she is looking inward to the picture.

Is that a pen or pencil sticking out of her ear or is it something in the background? I think this might be another good example of watching the background so you don't have unusual objects sticking out of the top of someone's head. I saw a picture yesterday with the young man photographed against a wall with the painting of some kind behind him that made him appear as though he had antlers coming out of the top of his head. I often make this mistake myself.

You're doing great work so keep it up!

William Loc: Mississippi

Get it tighter, tighter then tighten up, good work is in a nano state of mind, you can all ways back up , try in the face first, then hop back to see .

SanBea

I agree about the flowers - change position, and un-center them. It gets boring to always have the focal point in the middle of the picture. You daughter is beautiful and I know what the 'chopstick' is, but it distracts from the real picture.

TTKBJR Loc: Kansas

Hey tainkc, have you ever been to the Powell Gardens? Is it worth a visit for photographing senior portraits?

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

No, I have not been to Powell Gardens. Nor have I been to the Overland Park Arboretum. Now be careful. I think they have some strange rule at Powell Gardens about having people in the pictures. You are not supposed to. I know, it sounds strange. You had better call over there first.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

Yeah, you're right. I need to work on that. I also have a tendency to have a photo that the subject is slightly off center then, when I crop it, it is now centered. I am working on it.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

Gottcha"

TTKBJR Loc: Kansas

I know the Overland Park Arboretum has that rule and you have to have some kind of paid license. But, I thought I read somewhere about the Powell Gardens and its ok to take photos there. You have to pay to get in, I know that but I will check on it to be sure. Thanks.

howie Loc: Jersey Shore

Nice work, depth of field behind the pink gives a 3-d effect

cellaga Loc: monterey

Id like to critique, but I have to pretend(real hard) that I know what Im talking about. I have trouble as it is when tripping the shutter myself...but...here goes. The ambient light on your daughter is as good as it gets. No harsh shadows there and it was captured perfectly(are you sure the flash went off when you took this?). I was drawn to the eyes instantly, w/c is what portraitists really want to achieve. Aperture must be fairly wide (1.8-3.5?) to soften everything else(even the ears)...and concentrate on the face. The 50mm did what it does well with the bokeh.
Beautiful flowers. great color take. With the 300mm, were you wary about the overcast conditions to use a very high ISO of 1600? noise in the background, as a result, is quite pronounced. The aperture setting was also a bit shallow...the leaf on the lowerleft is sharp/so with the leaf on top middle. They are in the same plane as the base of the pistil (w/c must be the focus point). the top of the pistil(the stigma) is soft(out of focus) What is your focal length on this one? handheld?

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

The f stop was set at 5.6 and the speed was 1/250 sec. Hand held. Sorry about getting back to you so late but I work nights. Tonight I got off early. On the original, it is a bit smaller. The only thing I did in photoshop was to enlarge it a bit and do a tight crop. I did a 4x6 print and it looks very good. Here is another one that I shot at ISO 6400, f 5.6 @ 1/100 sec. I did not crop this one tight because I liked the way that the leaves surrounded it. Again, the noise did not show up in the photo. The lens that I used is a Sony lens down at the lower end. I wonder what a high end lens would look like? Oh, and by the way, I am not that great of a photographer. I just like to do it.

Peach hibiscus