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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Neeper, what do you think when you look at people's shapshots? What do you think when you see telephone poles growing out of people's heads or a pic where the subject comprises 20% of the frame in the photo and the rest is walls and ceiling? What is the one best piece of advice you'd give an amateur? Get closer to your subject perhaps? Do you ever offer unsolicited advice, or keep it to yourself?
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It depends who's photos I am looking at. If you claim to be a pro and are charging people money for your work, then I will judge harsher than an amateur. Things sticking out of people's head is obviously something everyone should avoid. The best advice I can give an amateur is to learn how to see the light. Learn how to use it, mould it, reflect it, soften it, feather it..... If you can do that, you will see things in a different light! After that, I think composition is just as important.
Sure I can offer some basic advice here and there to people. But if people want to learn techniques or the business, then they have to pay me.