Shutterstock Photographer Forum :: View topic - Please help me figure out how to improve my work

hauntingimagez · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 523 Location: las vegas nv

can someone please tell me how to improve. thanks

http://submit.shutterstock.com/review.mhtml?approved=-1

StuartE · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:45 pm

The first thing you really, really need to do to improve is to show us your images - the link you post takes us to our own shots...

Post a couple on a server, or attach them to a post - then maybe we can help...

Otherwise, the answer to how to improve is the three P's - practice, practice, practice... :-)

Cheers,
Stuart

hauntingimagez · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 523 Location: las vegas nv

what about this one, i have millions.
thanks

LizV · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 290 Location: New York

I'm not sure I understand the point to that photograph, particularly as a stock image. How would you envision that image used? I don't feel qualified to technically critique an image, but I have learned that in addition to quality, the most important thing about a stock image, is that it conveys something, either a message, concept or to enhance an ad, website, etc.

And there's probably a copyright issue on the label, but I didn't enlarge it so can't really tell.

It takes some time to develop an eye for it, but if you browse through some galleries, you'll soon get the idea.

StuartE · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:01 am

I thought the same thing, Liz... 'and they'd want it because???' - other than any issues we have with the 'use' of the image (and I have had that as a rejection, not sure if I was meant to justify it or not, although in my case I could, it was a textbook example of how a barefoot skier does a floating start in the water... not a particularly highly sought theme, I'd bet, but useful if you wanted barefoot skier images...), haunting, it's impossible to tell if it's sharply focussed, noisy, or indeed copyright, without seeing it larger than this - that's the catch 22 - if you said what rejection you got, we could guess/explain why - otherwise it's just 'a shot'...

Now add some ketchup for bloodstains, tyre marks, some damaged shoes, and a top, so you're at least projecting the concept that someone's been hit by a car and knocked out of their clothes - but as it is, if I was reviewing the image, I'd be asking 'use??'

Cheers,
Stuart

Nir Levy · Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 282

The picture in a sence has a good subject, but I don't feel that it is powerfull enough. Perhaps if the background was more dramatic floor scene with dark colors and the jeens were lying down on it then it would look better.

Do you know what I mean? Try to create powerful images that look inspiring. Those looks greatd and they really sell. (even though I can't say that any of my shots are like that).

joseph · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:29 am

Hey... everyone likes jeans.
So show them "The Jeans"
ZOOOOOM IN
Just crop way inside and you'll see a big deference.
Let the texture and the way its layed out tell the story.

Buy the way you should work out on your link.

Good luck.

JC

Pete Bax · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 1238 Location: Brighton England

To look at it it needs photoshoping, Then crop off one of the lines the top one.
Now you have a musical staff, The jeans are dancing what would finish the job is a radio pasted at the side. Now you have a street pic that says something... that nobody will buy.....smiles Pete