alexo

Hi Andrew,

We're here to get constructive feedback and that's what I try to do. I like your lighting. You have it down pat. Most of your images are very well lit. Your posing is a bit stiff. I'm still in the process of looking over your photos, but that's what I'm seeing: The body has to flow, the lines have to give the feeling of motion. Most of your poses are stiff and they give the feeling of being entrenched in the ground. Get your model to loosen up and think of curves. Flowing curves. Hope this helps.

I like this shot quite a bit. I think it's one of the better shots

I've taken. Please let me know if you agree or disagree and why.

Thank you for looking and sharing.

I love this series!  Wonderful!  Photography at its best!

Absolute perfection!  It's all there.  Nothing is missing, all the elements work together beautifully!  Excellent execution and very original!  Bravo!

I've looked over your portfolio.  You're a very good technician.  Your photographs are tonally quite beautiful, you understand lighting and all the technical aspects that go into producing a beautiful photograph.

I can see Man Ray in some of your work, I see Mapplethorpe, I see Weston, I see Helmut Newton.  I see you trying to approximate your influences, but I don't see your vision.  I see approximations, imitations, tributes, but I don't see original vision.  I think you have an incredible potential, but you have to break out of being a technician and become an artist expressing your own vision, rather than paying tribute to the work of others.  At least that's how I see it.

I hope you've found this critique helpful. 

It's a very good photograph, yet I think it would have been absolutely fantastic without the cloud and the horizon line. The horizon line and the cloud distract the eye from what otherwise would have been a very strong composition. The hardness and roughness of the rocks, the steely flowing of the rails and the stillness and smoothness of the water work very well together to create the feeling of the gate to emptiness, a gate to the void. The horizon line and the clouds break that illusion, leading the eye away, rather than forcing it to stay within the "gate"

Thank you for looking. Please be as specific with your critique as

possible.