Lately I've been wanting to try my eye at some portraits of people. I am relatively new to photography (about one year) and am only 16 so I was wanting to see how bad I would end up making the person look.
Thankfully, I have good access to models with my family. I asked my sister and she was willing to let me try. I had read a few articles on taking portraits, I had seen a gnarled tree that looked like a good background, and there was a nice, soft, cloudy afternooon so I decided to go ahead and try. I was very pleased with the results of the about 25 pictures I took that time.
After a little bit of photshop, I was ready to see what Dreamstime would think of them. I guessed they liked them because a few days later, the four I had uploaded were online. I probably have the worst acceptance ratio on dreamstime at about 10% (I'm not bragging) so I was quite happy with the results. You can let me know what you think as well.
Anyhow, the point of me writing this is that I want to encourage you to try your eye at what is new to you too. With a little practice of how to see the light, you will start seeing results. I hope I encouraged you that if such a new and ameteur photographer can take a half good picture, perhaps you can take an actually good picture. Also, if you don't mind, I would appreciate your thoughts on how I could do better if you have anything (I'm sure you will :) ). Gabe
