You can work tirelessly on developing strong technique and nurturing your creative voice, but if you do not know when you have taken a good photo, it can all be for naught. Evaluating your own work can be trickier than you might think, but it is a crucial skill to develop, whether you are an amateur or a professional. This helpful video tutorial offers a range of actionable advice on how to do just that.
Coming to you from Walks On The Wild Side, this excellent video discusses how to go about evaluating your own images. This can be a tricky or even uncomfortable experience, but it is quite necessary to improve as a photographer and to present your best self to potential clients. Just like working on lighting or composition, it is something that benefits from practice, which means taking off your photographer hat and putting on your viewer hat, sitting down with a photo, and asking yourself a range of detailed questions, including what you like and why, what you don't like and why, if you accomplished what you set out to do, if there are any technical deficiencies, if the post-processing is tasteful and balanced, and more. Doing this on a regular basis will go a long way to making you a better photographer. Check out the video above for the full rundown.
When I first read the Title I laughed and said well you know they are good by looking at them. And in essence that it true. I ,like many of you, have seen 100s of thousands of images. I dont just mean seen them by way of passing glance but actually looked at them. When I look through the images here I almost never stray far from the image quality consensus in my quality judgement. The difference being subjectivity most likely. Once you have seen enough ( how many are enough?) high quality images its not hard to tell if your own are up to muster. I have not tried to step into the making money with my images arena so my own satisfaction is all that's required. And I tell you , that few of my images are truly good. Oh my facebook friends rave over my images. My family , including my wife, thinks they are great. I on the other hand have been ruined by truly high grade photography. How do I know if my images are good? I look at them