Critique from a professional

Today we were asked to bring along the 10 chosen images shot for the Istock brief for a stock photographer to look at. As I mentioned earlier I thought very hard about the images that I wanted to incorporate into this portfolio and looked on their website for regulations and acceptance rule.s In doing this i stumbled upon what type of images they are currently looking for and what they are less likely to accept.
With this information I decided to concentrate on the area of food photography. I shot a wide range of different products and all were shot with natural daylight.

After completing the portfolio I showed it to the stock photographer and listened to his critique. This then enabled me to make my decision for my final three images to submit to the online library.

The following three shots are what I chose to submit.

Mini pizza breads



Afternoon Tea



Raspberry fool



Paul seemed impressed with my shots and said that , "They would be an asset to any photographers portfolio." Although this may have been the case when I received feedback from I stock they stated that my images had been rejected because they were too similar with regard to subject i.e. food and lighting i.e. daylight. I was then invited to resubmit a further 3 images which were accepted. These can be seen below.

Tomatoes




Christmas lights



Wheelchair