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Moving On...
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Time for a (rather lengthy) update...
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Ok, so on Setember 27th, I will have been on dA for a year...
I feel that I have generally been steadily improving for the last 12 months, but particularly within the last 2 or 3 months I've really stepped-it-up a gear with my photography, making a specific, conscious effort to become a better photographer. Whether or not anyone has noticed is another issue! Anyway, I have recently attended a photography / business seminar in Cardiff, and I'm attending 2 studio-lighting / glamour workshops and a Photoshop Seminar, all in October / November.
I'm starting to take my photography quite seriously now, and I'm really concentrating on technique, colours, composition and lighting. I'm trying to read as much theory as I can get my hands on, as I beleive that to be a truly great photographer you need to be intelligent, and learn to apply photographic theory to your images. Obviously, a little natural talent doesn't hurt, and I'd like to think I have a little bit of that too. I've also started looking-into doing photography professionally at some point in the future, however, I know that in order to be able to do this I need much more experience, and that all starts from now.
To coincide with this update, I've removed a lot of the really poor stuff from my gallery (don't worry - there's still TONS of crap stuff in there!) but in an attempt to really push myself forward, and appear a little more than an amateur with a hobby, I thought it would be more appropriate if I removed some of the images that I know are particularly bad (about half my gallery?).
As ever, CONSTRUCTIVE feedback is hugely appreciated, even if you don't like the shots themselves, I still love (and need) to hear criticisms / comments. If you're going to leave comments like "I like this", and "Nice colours", or "Cool shot!", then just do us both a favour, and stop wasting time with useless and pointless musings. I apologise if that comes across as a little abrasive or even big-headed, but thats how I feel, and I do feel quite strongly about it.
Also, I'm looking to do some TF* location shoots, so if you're a model (preferably tattoo'd / Alt. etc) and you fancy shooting in the South Wales area then please get in touch.
As always, thank-you so much for the views, favs, watches, and (useful) comments, and if anyone is reading this and would like to work together, please send me a note, or contact me via email, or just give me a ring (contact details are available on my dA Portfolio).
Thank-you,
Matt.
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I feel that I have generally been steadily improving for the last 12 months, but particularly within the last 2 or 3 months I've really stepped-it-up a gear with my photography, making a specific, conscious effort to become a better photographer. Whether or not anyone has noticed is another issue! Anyway, I have recently attended a photography / business seminar in Cardiff, and I'm attending 2 studio-lighting / glamour workshops and a Photoshop Seminar, all in October / November.
I'm starting to take my photography quite seriously now, and I'm really concentrating on technique, colours, composition and lighting. I'm trying to read as much theory as I can get my hands on, as I beleive that to be a truly great photographer you need to be intelligent, and learn to apply photographic theory to your images. Obviously, a little natural talent doesn't hurt, and I'd like to think I have a little bit of that too. I've also started looking-into doing photography professionally at some point in the future, however, I know that in order to be able to do this I need much more experience, and that all starts from now.
To coincide with this update, I've removed a lot of the really poor stuff from my gallery (don't worry - there's still TONS of crap stuff in there!) but in an attempt to really push myself forward, and appear a little more than an amateur with a hobby, I thought it would be more appropriate if I removed some of the images that I know are particularly bad (about half my gallery?).
As ever, CONSTRUCTIVE feedback is hugely appreciated, even if you don't like the shots themselves, I still love (and need) to hear criticisms / comments. If you're going to leave comments like "I like this", and "Nice colours", or "Cool shot!", then just do us both a favour, and stop wasting time with useless and pointless musings. I apologise if that comes across as a little abrasive or even big-headed, but thats how I feel, and I do feel quite strongly about it.
Also, I'm looking to do some TF* location shoots, so if you're a model (preferably tattoo'd / Alt. etc) and you fancy shooting in the South Wales area then please get in touch.
As always, thank-you so much for the views, favs, watches, and (useful) comments, and if anyone is reading this and would like to work together, please send me a note, or contact me via email, or just give me a ring (contact details are available on my dA Portfolio).
Thank-you,
Matt.
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Member of:
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Visit / Contact me via:
dA Portfolio
ModelMayhem (#1385054)
PureStorm
Net-Portfolio
Net-Model
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I'm new
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I'm new.
New to photography.
New to Deviant Art.
First things first, I'm not gunna pretend that any of my shots are particularly interesting, or particularly well-shot, well-composed, well-editted etc, but I would like to think that some of them are not too bad for a beginner. I like them, and I'm hoping that a couple of other people might like them too. I know that most of the subject matter is incredibly boring, but at the moment I'm just taking pictures of whatever is around me and easily accessible. Also, I like to get my shots right in-camera as much as I can, so most of my images are pretty natural, and I try to only ever use a minimal amount of image editing - mostly Curves / Levels / Saturation, that sort of thing. Some of my earlier shots are in desperate need of a little editting, but I'll leave them as they are and just cconsider it to be part of the learning curve. The thing is, I'm as much of a novice at photoshop as I am at photography, so I'm trying to learn 2 things at once at the moment, and a lot of the time I'm just messing-around and experimenting.
Please feel free to comment as much as you like on any of my deviations - there are a LOT of AMAZING artists on here, so I'll take any advice that is offered - I need all the help I can get!
Above all - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE criticise my deviations! To be completely honest, comments that say things like "I like this", or "Thats great" are nice to hear but are pretty useless. If you like something, please tell me what you like / why you like it. But even better, please tell me what you DON'T like / why you DON'T like it. Its more useful for me, and I appreciate it more.
Also, I really like the colour Blue, so you may well notice a bias towards this colour / theme in my gallery and in my Favourites.
PS - apparently, the way to become a popular photographer on dA is to have lots and lots of naked girlies in your gallery, even if the shots themselves are pretty poor. Unfortunatey, I do not have any naked girlies in my gallery, but please come have a look anyway...
Also feel free to visit my dA Portfolio to see what I consider to be my best stuff:
efacade.daportfolio.com/
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I'm new.
New to photography.
New to Deviant Art.
First things first, I'm not gunna pretend that any of my shots are particularly interesting, or particularly well-shot, well-composed, well-editted etc, but I would like to think that some of them are not too bad for a beginner. I like them, and I'm hoping that a couple of other people might like them too. I know that most of the subject matter is incredibly boring, but at the moment I'm just taking pictures of whatever is around me and easily accessible. Also, I like to get my shots right in-camera as much as I can, so most of my images are pretty natural, and I try to only ever use a minimal amount of image editing - mostly Curves / Levels / Saturation, that sort of thing. Some of my earlier shots are in desperate need of a little editting, but I'll leave them as they are and just cconsider it to be part of the learning curve. The thing is, I'm as much of a novice at photoshop as I am at photography, so I'm trying to learn 2 things at once at the moment, and a lot of the time I'm just messing-around and experimenting.
Please feel free to comment as much as you like on any of my deviations - there are a LOT of AMAZING artists on here, so I'll take any advice that is offered - I need all the help I can get!
Above all - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE criticise my deviations! To be completely honest, comments that say things like "I like this", or "Thats great" are nice to hear but are pretty useless. If you like something, please tell me what you like / why you like it. But even better, please tell me what you DON'T like / why you DON'T like it. Its more useful for me, and I appreciate it more.
Also, I really like the colour Blue, so you may well notice a bias towards this colour / theme in my gallery and in my Favourites.
PS - apparently, the way to become a popular photographer on dA is to have lots and lots of naked girlies in your gallery, even if the shots themselves are pretty poor. Unfortunatey, I do not have any naked girlies in my gallery, but please come have a look anyway...
Also feel free to visit my dA Portfolio to see what I consider to be my best stuff:
efacade.daportfolio.com/
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