How to sell photography

Best Ways To Make Money Selling Photography:

Help a beginner photographer?

I'm a newbie at photography, and i was in the garden taking photos of stuff (as you do) and i took this picture, can someone with a knowledge of photography give me some advice/feedback on it? like how i could have made it better etc. Cheers x http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2eefyu1&s=3 Oh and i wont give thumbs down for criticisms :)

Public Comments

1. Its good for a starter you should go for it =]
2. It's not too bad, good depth of field, sharp in the right place and exposure's spot on. Only little criticism is that I'd have moved to the left slightly and got all the trowel bade in.
3. Quality... i'm no photographer but i love to see everyday photography....
4. I like it, but I'm no expert, a bit bland perhaps, I would have liked to have seen a Little insect [ladybug] on one of the leaves.
5. Hi, good picture except I would have included the whole of the trowel and perhaps chosen a slightly more interesting scence, but that's about it.
6. Looks a little dirty to me, lol.
7. The aesthetics is fine. Technically a good photo but lacks any real punch. Obviously the subject is the trowel, find a way to draw attention to it, it is just kinda there!
8. wow!, i'm a begginer photographer myself and i can't find one thing wrong with this picture. it's perfect and it's beautiful. the light in it is great. it looks like it could have came out of a Home and Garden magazine lol it's beautiful. good job
9. Personally although a good picture, i think the composition is wrong. You have rather untidy plants behind the one you are photographing, it would have been better if you had gone from the front of the plant and tried not to get those in the shot. Was there a flower at the top of the stem of that plant, my eye was drawn to that fact. I also agree with the others you should have tried to include all of the trowel. In all it would have been better to choose a different plant in a different setting and either get just all the plant on, or choose a plant that doesn't have a stem disappearing off the picture, if you want the trowel on as well. Hope that helps.
10. One concept in photography is known as "leading lines". The position of the trowel really hurts this photo. It is a visual STOP to the eye, a roadblock so to speak. It would have been much better to position the trowel so that the handle was in the lower right corner of the photo, with the "business end" angled up into the area of the plant. This would literally take the viewer's eye and move them into the photo... a "leading line" into the scene. Pretty good job on exposure and focus though. Keep it up! steve
11. I like it. I'd like to see the colours bumped up a bit, (brightness/contrast) and the green saturated a bit more too to give it more of a 'pop'.
12. There's nothing technically wrong with this picture - focus and exposure are accurate. Where it lacks is in composition. You're showing some creativity in picking the scene in the first place, but there's no definite subject. The trowel is the only completely sharp thing, but you've cut off the ends. The plant is not very interesting and is not in very good condition, and the background doesn't really help. I don't mean to sound too negative - composition is the hardest thing to learn, and I'm just trying to give you some pointers. Keep at it!
13. First of all, you have to ask yourself what you were trying to "say" in this photo. What emotion were you trying to convey, or what statement were you trying to make? Once you know that, then you use the techniques available to you to make that photo. Depth of field, exposure, composition angle and quality of light, etc. You could dig the spade into the ground next to the plant to show that you are about to dig it up. You could dig a hole next to the plants, take another plant that is already out of the ground and has a root ball, and place the root ball just at the edge of the hole. Then place a part of the spade just in the edge of the frame to suggest that it is a spade. That will tell the viewer that you are planting. Or you could dig a hole next to the plant with a part of the spade just inside the photo to show that you dug one up. All in all this is not a bad photo for a beginner. The lighting is soft (no hard shadows. This is good), and the masonry edging along the right and bottom of the frame keeps the viewer's attention on the spade and plants. I think it needs more depth of field to show the plants at the top more in focus. You can do this by using a smaller f stop. You should choose, if you can, more appealing plants; something with a flower or bold shaped leaves.
14. Colour saturation could be better regarding the greenery. Would have been better if the trowel had been moved round a bit, and you had lowered the angle to take the pic. The dof would have been much better. Just my opinion.
15. Still life arrangements are harder than they look, aren't they? Exposure is nice, subject matter is good, sharpness seems fine, what's lacking is composition. The handle is cropped out, which makes for an awkward composition. The eye wants the entire trowel there, and so is led off the edge rather than traveling around in the image. Try again, shoot many different arrangements, angles and perspectives and see what else you can come up with. I suggest "Learning to See Creatively", by Bryan Peterson. It does for learning compositional skills what "Understanding Exposure" does for, well, learning exposure. Keep learning and practicing, you are doing fine for a beginner.
16. GOOD EYE!! Adore the fact Your a beginner, who has a sense of capturing curiosity, your on the right path! Good LucK! Like myself, as a reminder what i do is question myself? 'when,where,why&how'? Triggering thoughts before i click such as... >composing the pic -back/middle/fore ground +framing >perspective&viewpoint -scale&depth of field +composition >details that count -line,shape,texture,pattern,tone+contrast >Colour or Black&White -awarness,subject,contrast+lighting {etc} The rest you will learn with time, but these key factors as such will always help&remind You!