Critique my photography? - 1

Most of my photography is equine related. Please feel free to give me tips, my camera is a nikon d3000 (digital slr) and I'm 14 years old. Just started getting into photogaphy this June.

I don't have any real knowledge on photography apart from the touches that my OCD can't handle xD,
but as far as your photos go, most of them are nice. I liked a few of them a lot. Especially 0:22 of the second video, with the horses on the grass. That is a very good photograph.

We're pretty similar actually, I started getting into "consciously" writing film reviews this June as well. Making movies myself - June, 2010.xD

A word of advice to you as a photographer, if you want to become a photo-artist, then photograph images that provoke some emotions in the viewer.

Take this for example:

What does it evoke for you? I feel the creepiness, the brooding Gothic eerieness. The power that a black-and-white picture can have is tremendous.

Since the photography shown in your videos is equine (Latin for Horse or something, I believe xD) related, I'd suggest you capture the beauty of the creatures. I myself think horses to be one of the most beautiful animals living on Earth.

So for an other example, I'd actually go for the close-up of the goat/lamb (not quite sure which one xD) from the second video. The goat/lamb is in focus and the background is unfocused and very blurry. This essentially means that the goat/lamb is of importance. He/she is a cute creature and focusing him/her amplifies the feeling it evokes, which is, to me at least, happiness.

Seeing a pure, beautiful creature like him/her is already making people smile. It's amplified in the photo and the "power" is greater.

I hope that made any sense.

You can check out my movies at www.youtube.com/primaverapictures and my movie reviews at carlkevad.wordpress.com

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