Greetings from Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

[labavo]

Great forum, great works. What can i say.
Big up folks. My boss is give me a privelage and gave me Canon20D, standard lens 18-55so I make my first picture wich i will share with u people. Every sugestion is for good.

[labavo]

Other pictures you can see on this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47336470@N00/

[BillsBayou]

I'm not sure what to say about this photo. I think perhaps, her face is wrong for the pose. I like the radiant hair and the hands on the breasts, but she looks distracted or disconnected perhaps. If her eyes were closed and her face a bit more blissful...

Welcome to the forum, by the way.

[labavo]

Tnx for comment. A already told theese are my first shoot's in life. But tnx again.

[LceeL]

Self-Portraits are among the hardest things to do effectively - that you have done so as well as you have for your first pictures speaks well for your creativeness and your talent. Keep up the good work - and follow your very good instincts.

[labavo]

Originally Posted by LceeL

Self-Portraits are among the hardest things to do effectively - that you have done so as well as you have for your first pictures speaks well for your creativeness and your talent. Keep up the good work - and follow your very good instincts.

Tnx a lot, i preciated it!
Gretings from Sarajevo

[labavo]

I practice a lil'bit more...

[labavo]

As title say ...

[Miyagi-san]

The 3rd from the last one posted (pic from below you) is great! I like it a lot!

[BillsBayou]

Originally Posted by LceeL

Self-Portraits are among the hardest things to do effectively - that you have done so as well as you have for your first pictures speaks well for your creativeness and your talent. Keep up the good work - and follow your very good instincts.

Looking at labavo's gallery, I get the impression this is not a self portrait.

[GCRollo]

I looked though your gallery too...
I Love the Graffiti Series... Very nice.

These all seem... I don't know, flat... To me.
Not bad... just no "pop" or "life" to them.
I do like the 2nd one in Post 7 though...

Good Start Mate! Welcome to the Forum

[Tarafay]

With the first pictures I find the sheets to be distracting, I would injoy it a tad more if it would of been a nice even clean backdrop. And the possition of the head could of been changed a bit too. Other then that I like them very much. Great job!

[labavo]

Tnx a lot all of you people. Maybe my nick name "labavo" is a lil'bit confusing you all.My name is Goran, and im a male, and those pictures are not a selfportrait, these are all from my girl. But i preciated a lot your comments and sugestion.
Fresh pictures comming soon.

[labavo]

Thanks for the welcome note

[labavo]

Originally Posted by labavo

Other pictures you can see on this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47336470@N00/

TNX CANONADE, realy good sugestion:
Here is what he say...

Hi Goran,

I checked out some of your images and from what I could see they look pretty good.
It looks like the focal point of image is out of focus on some images but other parts of the image is sharply focused. I would suggest you review your manual in the section on Setting the AF (Auto Focus) and metering. You may get better result if you use partial or spot metering. It is very important to ensure that the focal point of the image is in focus. Sometimes this is a challenge.

Which image(s) best demonstrate your problem?

Based on your images I suspect that your problem is not camera related.

Are you familiar with the term Depth of Field (dof)? If not check out this article. http://sergykalstudios.blogspot.com/...otography.html

It looks like this article covers the topic quite well. Once you have an understanding of dof I suspect that you will be able to use this information increase the area of the image which is in focus.

Hopefully by more actually focusing on the subject and adjusting the dof to suit the composition of the shot you will achieve the results you are looking for.


Joe