How critical are you of your own work?

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Jo said:
DS, I'm going to spank you young man. I already told you what I think of those fabulous HDR's you produce.. and those street ones... meh, you're gonna get it!:bat:
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Well that worked :naughty:
 
i like some pictures i take but i can always find something or some way to improve it - problem is i LACK the know how to do it but one day i will learn i suppose :(

i like to bounce ideas off other people and get different views before i do things aswell
 
I'm very critical of my work, but it's what keeps me pushing forward. Out of a couple of thousand shots at a wedding I might get 1 or 2 I really love, sometimes none. Pleasing clients is a different matter, but they have much lower expectations than I do.
 
Duncan.. well, what can I say. If being over critical gets me results even half as good as yours eventually, then I think I will wear an "I am too self critical, and proud" badge :eek:
 
Keep being critical Jo, but the most important part is to understand the reasons why a shot doesn't make the cut - for example if it's OOF then examine why - shutter speed too slow ? subject movement ? photographer movement ? Photography is all about learning from your mistakes ... very rarely is it the fault of the camera ...
 
WeddingHack said:
Keep being critical Jo, but the most important part is to understand the reasons why a shot doesn't make the cut - for example if it's OOF then examine why - shutter speed too slow ? subject movement ? photographer movement ? Photography is all about learning from your mistakes ... very rarely is it the fault of the camera ...
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Unless its a canon :D!


All good advice, great thread :)
 
EdinburghGary said:
Unless its a canon :D!
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How true ... I took my 1DMKiii to Silverstone on Wednesday and it decided to freeze up with Error 99 first shot out of the bag. It's still dead. Less than six months old. Piece of cr*p lol.
 
Fairly, I pick acceptable images and post them up here and pass them round friends etc... The one or two that get praise I then consider good. But I never judge my own work in positive terms only note faults.
 
I'm extremely critical of my own photos and i'm never happy with them. Helps me improve i guess though?

I've got thousands of photos taken over the last few years and i've never had the confidence to show them to other people until the handful i've posted here since joining.
I just don't seem to get any pleasure at all from showing people my photos. I'm a strange one :thinking:
 
I own two synthesizers, and because most of the stuff I play on them are all improvised stuff, so therefore I just know it will sound awful to everyone. But to my own ears, I like to think my own type of music does have it's own special quality. That's taking into account an advice told to me by an uncle; he said that if it sounds good in my own ears then who cares what everyone else thinks.
I like to think that the exact same concept applys to my own photography ability. I like to think that I've produced a few amazing pictures amongst the thousands of rather dull uninspiring generic shots I have taken in the past. I just go along with the flow and don't beat myself up if my pictures didn't look that good or interesting. It's all about going along with the flow and having fun.
The beauty of digital camera technology is that you can work that shutter away to your heart's content and not worry about wasting film and developing costs. Also you could salvage that dodgy looking shot using your favourite paint program. (I've done that a few times myself!)
I've spent about a month here in TP and so therefore, I must have looked at quite a fair ol' number of photos in here by now, but I've always been blown away by the amazing quality by a lot of them. I'm learning by what other people can do while at the same time staying faithful to my own "trademark" quality.
 
hmmm-my camera is literaly a point and shoot-no focus, anything.
software-not up to par
i hate my pics most of the time, but feel the need to share as i am an
artist and that's what we do. hopefully someday soon i'll get rid of my pets
and buy a good camera set-up-they eat up my money fast!
got 2 kids in diapers as well:lol:
 
Extremely. Look at an image today and think mm not bad look again tomorrow and think crap. Getting someone elses point of view sometimes helps balance things out.
 
I'm critical, but i'm also super keen to show people (especially you guys) my shots. I'm a total hobbiest and have none of this 'client expectation' to factor in. I've just found it such a thrill to go from having no camera and no clue less than a year ago, to now having some wonderful images of the fantastic places i've visited while living temporarily in Europe.

I think maybe its cos I dont know enough that I dont think I completely suck i.e. I've never printed any of my shots so dont know how bad they might actually be :) and seldom go over them with a fine toothed comb at 100%.

You guys do do a fantastic job of pumping people up though....feedback is always super constructive and positive. Sometimes I go to bed thinking 'I am the man' :lol:
 
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