Shutterstock Photographer Forum :: View topic - Critique please to help me find the winning 10

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

Forest spring

jeffbanke · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:09 pm

I didn't check on the disks, but the fewer the better, gives you more opportunity for sales:-)

On the stream, it too needs to lead somewhere, be nice if there was a lake there at the end or something

Forest spring is nice

BTW it does not look like your 100% crops are in fact 100% they look smaller

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

Feet in the sand

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

Concept

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

These are the uploads at this time... Please critique

Thanks

ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:20 pm

Forget the feet in the sand.

The Euro i believe may be a copyright issue and your skin reflection in the wrench wont cut it.

pharm · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9406 Location: Never quite sure

Also, none of your crops are 100%. Without 100% crops, it's difficult to give you a complete evaluation. See this thread for an explanation:

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=120676&sid=661305897a8122abeb4a647495ede671

Your crops are covering about a third of the entire image. The shot of the piano, for example...the original is 4288 x 2848 pixels. A 100% crop (500 x 500 pixels) should cover the area seen outlined in yellow below:

pharm · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9406 Location: Never quite sure

One of the most common mistakes people make when trying to do a 100% crop is that they open the image at 100%, crop out a random area, THEN resize the crop so the longest side is 500 pixels. All is well until they get to the resizing part. If you resize the crop, it's no longer a 100% crop!

This is probably the easiest way:

-Open your image (the original one, not the resized one).

-Create a new image/file that's 500 x 500 pixels.

-Copy the original image (Select all/copy)

-Go to the new image/file you just created and paste (Ctrl-V)

-Move the image around until the part you want is visible.

-Flatten the image

-Save it with a NEW name (or you might overwrite the original)

Your new file will be a 100% crop that's 500 x 500 pixels.

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

Please critique these uploads...
Is there any chance in them being Shutterstock-worthy? :)

Thanks in advance,
Ovi

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

Mountain lake

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

Heavy clouds

ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:49 pm

The boat is OOF with noise in it.

The Alps are OOF with blown highlights, wrong WB/lighting,and noise in the water.

Heavy clouds are to forget B&W and it will get hit with lighting, noise and OOF.

jeffbanke · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

All three look noisy, I didn't check the ISO, but you have a noise problem which may due to High ISO.

The mountain lake has color noise which makes purple in the water.

The sunset is noisy in the sky which is the highest level of light and where there should be no noise

Forget the BW's all together

ovisovata83 · Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 24

Thanks,

Got the idea and appreciate your input.
Just trying to understand the "magic formula" and polish my skills.