A family photo

[Evertking]

I will be off work at 10 tonight and ready to go, if you can.

[William W]

I will be off work at 10 tonight and ready to go, if you can.

Thank you for the invite, but, with respect, that's meaningless information.

No one knows where you live, hence "10 tonight" has no meaning.

For example, although it is easy to see that I reside in Sraylya - it is not clear precisely where in Sraylya that I live - and there a few time zones here - that why I previously stated that, "I have about "50 minutes" and not something like "I have to leave to get to class at 7:00pm", which was actually the reason why I only had 50 minutes to give.

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I note that you have been asked about this before.

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In any case and in answer to your question, I have a jam packed two days of work: I expect that apart from a brief look at email alerts, I will not be back at CiC for at least 72 hours, who knows, perhaps longer.

But that should not deter your enthusiasm from continuing the exercise: I am only one of many here who has taken time out to assist you on many of your threads that you have started. My assistance is not special, it just happened to be of a particular type, for a particular period of time, when we rolled together on this thread: and that was very good.

WW

[William W]

I love it. [photography] I try and get out and shoot everyday I get frustrated at times cause I see or have a image in my head but can't get it through the camera. Im new to this so I know I'm not going to be good overnight.

Shooting everyday is an excellent approach. Often less is better. Shoot every day but take more time MAKING each photograph - not too long pondering, just think a little bit longer about one or two aspects of each shot: do not try to get everything correct, focus on one or two aspects at a time.

For example, you have identified a issue in your Family Portrait with "Everything is Symmetrical" - then in the next structure/posed Portrait that you MAKE of those four people have your MAIN aim to pose with more triangles and less symmetry.

Once you do that a few times you will get good at that particular aspect and that aspect will become second nature to you.

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my wife and daughters feet look kinda disturbing now I have had time to look... Uughh[/B] I guess you live and learn. I gotta get back to work. Thank you.

Yes. Now that you are actively looking you are now "seeing".

Very good work.

I have to get to work too, CU round.

WW

[Evertking]

Shooting everyday is an excellent approach. Often less is better. Shoot every day but take more time MAKING each photograph - not too long pondering, just think a little bit longer about one or two aspects of each shot: do not try to get everything correct, focus on one or two aspects at a time.

For example, you have identified a issue in your Family Portrait with "Everything is Symmetrical" - then in the next structure/posed Portrait that you MAKE of those four people have your MAIN aim to pose with more triangles and less symmetry.

Once you do that a few times you will get good at that particular aspect and that aspect will become second nature to you.

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Yes. Now that you are actively looking you are now "seeing".

Very good work.

I have to get to work too, CU round.

WW

I got busy with work and was really busy. I didn't have time to make it back in here. I do two 16 hour shifts but anyway...
I honestly appreciate you help and I put it into practice today and I looked at the whole scene and didn't touch my camera till I was sure I didn't see anything growing out of a head and all of that and I was please with compositions and then I metered and moved on.

Only thing with this image was the missing hand.. but what could I do? And the legs.. does she look amputated?


Are you a Photography or Art Instructor?
If you willing to teach me a few things, I'm willing to learn.