After viewing your photos I think you have done one hell of great job on portrait works.
As far as what a good portrait requires are: 1. Characteristic of person(s) being photgraphed 2: Expression of thoughts which indicates mood 3. Additional story hinted by the background 4. Shades of lights (timing of growth in life) 5. Physical stanza (static or dynamic) shows incoming plot
I myself only focus on portrait works in photography. I have seen a lot of good portrait works and I have to say you are one of the natural born photographers with keen eyes. Your works have successfully shown you got more than just basic skills but also great sense of capturing moments.
It has been a pleasure viewing your photographic works and your photos do tell stories on itselves. I super envy people like you who is capable of capturing precious moments of life with camara in hand.
I believe you could still produce excellent photos with any camara even if just a DC or MobilePhone. Please do continue develop and cultivate your keen eyes to this world.
As one of the previous posts suggests, since your photos are mostly portraits, please do consider prime lenses like 35mm 50mm and 85mm or even 135mm for your future portrait works. These prime lenses will not improve your skill but they are good tools to help you to illustrate what you want to express in your portrait works.
After viewing your photos I think you have done one hell of great job on portrait works. 看完您的照片後,我認為您拍出了極佳的人像照。
As far as what a good portrait requires are: 1. Characteristic of person(s) being photgraphed 2: Expression of thoughts which indicates mood 3. Additional story hinted by the background 4. Shades of lights (timing of growth in life) 5. Physical stanza (static or dynamic) shows incoming plot 一張好的人像照通常表露: 1.被攝者的個性 2.被攝者的心情表現 3.背景所點出的額外故事 4.光影效果 4.引導接下來情節的肢體動作
I myself only focus on portrait works in photography. I have seen a lot of good portrait works and I have to say you are one of the natural born photographers with keen eyes. Your works have successfully shown you got more than just basic skills but also great sense of capturing moments. 我是個只專精人像攝影的人,也曾看過很多優秀的人像作品。我必須說您真是個擁有攝影師之眼的人。您的作品展示了您不僅有基本的技巧,更有抓住關鍵時刻的品味。
It has been a pleasure viewing your photographic works and your photos do tell stories on itselves. I super envy people like you who is capable of capturing precious moments of life with camara in hand. 觀看您的照片是個樂趣,而您的照片也訴說著他們自己的故事。我非常羨慕您這種有能力用相機來暫停生命中珍貴時刻的人。
I believe you could still produce excellent photos with any camara even if just a DC or MobilePhone. Please do continue develop and cultivate your keen eyes to this world. 我相信您就算使用小DC或者是手機都可以拍出非常棒的照片。希望您可以繼續發展並培養您敏銳的眼睛來看這個世界。
As one of the previous posts suggests, since your photos are mostly portraits, please do consider prime lenses like 35mm 50mm and 85mm or even 135mm for your future portrait works. These prime lenses will not improve your skill but they are good tools to help you to illustrate what you want to express in your portrait works. 就如幾層樓前的人所回覆的,因為您的照片多是人像攝影,希望您能考慮購入35mm、50mm、85mm、或進一步入手135mm的定焦高階鏡頭來做為您未來攝影的鏡頭。這些好的鏡頭不僅能增進您的攝影技巧,更能幫助您展現您在人像攝影中想要表達的情感。
Humn... I guess you don't really understand what I am trying to tell you.
Please do not look down on yourself. As far as your photos show, you have exceeded above normal portrait photographer's level.
What you need in your photos is a good "STORY".
A good story should have the following virtues: 1. plot 2. characters 3. conflicts 4. climax 5. resolution 6. and so on
Ask yourself, what do you see from the portraits of the past US Presidents? It is just a photo or it might be just a painting. If you look real carefully, you can see stories behind the eyes of the portraits. Well, this is kind of a bad example because you probably don't have the background knowledge of the past US Presidents.
Another easy way for you to upgrade your portrait photography skill is to look at the good movie posters. Examine how professional photographers illustrait the characteristics of the actors and reflect that to 2D posters. You do get a feel or sense of portraits on good movie posters, don't you?
Every classical contemporary portrait work is cherished by professionals by some vital foundamental elements. This will get lengthy and I will not try to make you sleepy with this.
However, once again, don't look down on yourself. Just keep on taking pictures of your family members and make yourself happy with it. One day you will see improvement in your works.