Meet Lauren and Toni

JonnyDoesPhotos

This is Lauren we were at Lulus in Watertown tn on a Sat night. Lulus is very fun place to hang out on Sat night, they have music and the people are wonderful. CC welcome. Both of the images are soft, I printed Lauren at 5x7 and it looked good. org was 20MP and reducing to 800px wide really shows the softness.

jmphotocraft

out of focus. delete.

JonnyDoesPhotos

Tony
This is Tony with her son.

adbsgicom

FWIW, your images will look better here is you link the images instead of attaching them. When you attach, the maximum filesize is ridiculously small, and you get a ton a softness.

novicesnapper

Ignore the haters, the purpose of this forum, seems to get lost on some. Sometimes linking/attaching changes the images. Many members have run into this in the past.

anonymouscuban

I recommend you host your photos someplace online then hotlink to them in your thread. Uploading is a pain and unless the original is low resolution, it will get compressed and look terrible.

I suspect the softness in the images posted could be due to compression issue. The comp bothers me on the first. I'm guessing you tried to follow the rule of 3rds by setting her off to the left side, but it doesn't work here. First, our brains read left to right. Composing her on the right side of the frame would work better. It would also fit the image better since she facing towards the left side of the photo. I suspect you did this because the BG on to the left was distracting. A better option would have been to get in tight in portrait orientation.

Second one is a nice snap shot.

You mention this being a fun place with music and other stuff but your images don't show that. I would suggest trying to capture more candid shots of the fun rather than portraits. Just a suggestion.

BTW, please don't be discouraged by the critiques you've received. We've all been through it and everyone means well by it. Dgrin is not like most other photo forums on the net, where it's a total circle jerk. This isn't a place to post a shot so you can get a bunch of "Nice Shot" comments and in turn, be indebted to the posters to do the same with their shots. We have a community here that is pretty passionate about the art of photography and helping others to improve their craft. Always accept the feedback you get as such. You'll get the nice shot comments when they are deserved. You'll also get a lot of great constructive feedback when they don't. Adapt the things you learn here to fit your creative style.

Thanks for sharing and please, please, share more of your work.

- Alex

JonnyDoesPhotos

Thanks for all the comments. The photo of Lauren was a snapshot and a weird composition and was hard to crop. I think the women in the photos are beautiful and especially Lauren is very photogenic. The room is very dark and it is hard to focus. I work at not using a flash in Lulus as a courtesy to the others, so my lighting is poor at best. I will post some pics of the room and band so you can get a sense of Lulus atmosphere.

40 year shooter, still learning. Last 10 years with digital.

Took this through the front window.