Australian honey eater--is it good enough

readysetgocapture

honey eater+1.jpg
Hi, i wanted to share one of the few photos i've been happy enough with to post on my smugmug gallery, any critique and comments would be helpfull as i'm trying to decide what is good enough for selling and not. i know its a small photo but i couldn't post a full res of one im deciding on selling or not selling.
well thankyou for reading from casey.

Docdpp

Hi Casey,
I'm a beginner on this forum too but I thought I would reply. I know how it feels to wonder if anyone is out there.

This photo is better than many I take. It has some shadowing or underexposure that bothers me, but very nice composition.

Will it sell idunno....only the public can make that call.

I hope this helps some,
doc

evil eggplant

readysetgocapture wrote:

honey eater+1.jpg
Hi, i wanted to share one of the few photos i've been happy enough with to post on my smugmug gallery, any critique and comments would be helpfull as i'm trying to decide what is good enough for selling and not. i know its a small photo but i couldn't post a full res of one im deciding on selling or not selling.
well thankyou for reading from casey.

Hi There,

Good enough to sell? The only way to find out is to give it a shot. I think it's nicely done, but it's small, so I'm reluctant to critique the image. If it's sharp (razor sharp) at 8 X 10, 300ppi, and the colors are true, you may be able to sell it.

Good luck

gtc

Red Wattlebird
Are you setting yourself up to sell? Gear,Gear,Gear...at least 12MP....more if you can and razor sharp primes.Later high end('L"} tele- zooms are quite ok as well.The zooms that try to cover too much in one package are usually soft.Tripod too.I get good results from older manual focus teles but building up the skill level to work without AF takes sometime.

It depends on who you are selling to-wildlife stock agencies want razor sharp images,at 300dpi as mentioned,and un- processed on a disk, saved as a TIFF or RAW file.It helps if you can have birds with some native vegetation,and/or doing something-expressing behaviours or showing some personaliity.

Also feeding on blossom or something which adds colour,as apart from the red wattle they are rather camouflaged.They can also look good in flight as they sometimes swoop upwards and hang

A photo on wall can sell to anyone regardless-if the like it they will buy it.

The Red Wattlebird looks a little underexposed and if shot in raw you could pull up some of the shadow detail etc.

My tip for selling? Get the right gear.Get up very early and find a good position.Shoot as may 'good photos' that you can over a long period of time,say a 1000,and then cull them down to a handful.Submit those and see what happens!

Docdpp

Thanks Greg,

I needed to hear that as well.

doc

readysetgocapture

evil eggplant wrote:

Hi There,

Good enough to sell? The only way to find out is to give it a shot. I think it's nicely done, but it's small, so I'm reluctant to critique the image. If it's sharp (razor sharp) at 8 X 10, 300ppi, and the colors are true, you may be able to sell it.

Good luck

hey, yes the photo i have on harddrive is alot bigger and is clear at 100%.
thanks for replying from casey.

readysetgocapture

Docdpp wrote:

Hi Casey,
I'm a beginner on this forum too but I thought I would reply. I know how it feels to wonder if anyone is out there.

This photo is better than many I take. It has some shadowing or underexposure that bothers me, but very nice composition.

Will it sell idunno....only the public can make that call.

I hope this helps some,
doc

hey, thanks for replying

readysetgocapture

gtc wrote:

Are you setting yourself up to sell? Gear,Gear,Gear...at least 12MP....more if you can and razor sharp primes.Later high end('L"} tele- zooms are quite ok as well.The zooms that try to cover too much in one package are usually soft.Tripod too.I get good results from older manual focus teles but building up the skill level to work without AF takes sometime.

It depends on who you are selling to-wildlife stock agencies want razor sharp images,at 300dpi as mentioned,and un- processed on a disk, saved as a TIFF or RAW file.It helps if you can have birds with some native vegetation,and/or doing something-expressing behaviours or showing some personaliity.

Also feeding on blossom or something which adds colour,as apart from the red wattle they are rather camouflaged.They can also look good in flight as they sometimes swoop upwards and hang

A photo on wall can sell to anyone regardless-if the like it they will buy it.

The Red Wattlebird looks a little underexposed and if shot in raw you could pull up some of the shadow detail etc.

My tip for selling? Get the right gear.Get up very early and find a good position.Shoot as may 'good photos' that you can over a long period of time,say a 1000,and then cull them down to a handful.Submit those and see what happens!

thanks for replying

Harryb

Nice capture but I'm not crazy about the comp. Your subject is in the right half of the frame and looking right while you have dead space on left frame.

Wildlife images are not an easy sell and I don't think this would go. Now I'm known for my lousy taste so take that with a very large dose skepticism.