Opinion on my photography?
I've been working on my photography and I was wondering from strangers if it's any good? I'm not a professional. I started out using a point and shoot for 2 years and for graduation, I got a Nikon D40 (2009) and I've been working on this ever since. Please give me an opinion!
look up Kellie Marie Photography on facebook (it's a page not group). If you like my photography, please like the page! It means a lot. Thank you:]
Added (1). Here's the link to Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/...0271288738
You should give us a direct link, and with Facebook, all the private settings may prevent those who are not your friends to see them at all. Upload them to http://www.flickr.com/...flickr.com instead.
Without looking at your photos, I'd like to comment on learning photography.
Do it the right way by taking photography class.Do-it-yourself photography often results in bad habits that will have to be unlearned later. What I mean is that most of the time you don't know why the photos don't come out nicely, and when they come out nicely, you still don't know why. This is not the way to learn.
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Just looked at most of them. Thank you for the link.
http://www.facebook.com/...0271288738
This is ruined by bad lighting-right on her face. When you do a portrait, survey the area first. If you're going to use strobe(s), then take the time to set them up.
Blurry background is preferred. It's not so distracted to the main subject. Like this 
The rest of the photos - most of them I feel, are edited too much. The colors are too saturated, they're "bleeding". They don't appear natural any longer. The contrast / blackness settings are too high.
Forget tilted photos. They are impossible to frame and hang on the wall.
Start here. This is http://photoinf.com/General/KODAK/guidelines_for_better_photographic_composition.html useful
I like the animals. Especially the Charlet. My Dad use to raise them. I like the bridge. The guitar stem looks like a head and a long neck. Is that intentional?
1. Don't overedit. Like someone said, your photos are so saturated they no longer look real.
2. Show us something we don't already see - your banana picture, for example, is just that… Bananas. Why would someone have that photo instead of setting out some real bananas? The banana in your photo needs to tell us something we don't know when looking at our own bananas. Look up Edward Weston and his pepper/vegetable series to see what I mean.
3. Many things in life are better crooked, but photos should be straight. Horizons especially, but in general everything should be upright. Gravity doesn't go sideways. It just makes photos awkward to look at.
4. Learn about proper exposure. Many of your photos have too much shadow or highlight.
5. Learn about using light. Most of your portraits are ruined by the lighting. Shadows across face, awkward highlighting, etc. Ambient light can be your friend, but you have to know how to control it with your technique.
6. Close-ups are not nessessarily great just because you can get something in focus. 3-4 different photos of the close-up of a car brand? Nope. It isn't exciting the first time, it isn't exciting the 5th time.
7. Tone down the sepia. If the photo isn't great on its own, putting it in sepia won't help. You are losing a lot of contrast when you do so, and generally your photos will look worse in sepia that when in proper color or true B&W. Vintage is in, but the "old" look only works when you really know how to use it to enhance your photo.