Long time no
So I got lost for a while there but I'm back to mostly lurk. In the meantime I threw up a website for some of my photography and wanted someone to tear it apart. 4chan was my first thought and it either got ignored or wasn't that bad. Then I said to my self 'Self (I said) wait a minute, I haven't been to Linkswarm in a long time. If there's any bigger bunch of critics who will tell it like it is I don't know who they are."
So here it is:
RBavonephotography.com
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BeachGoat
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linkswarm
queue: New link: Mao Sugiyama Cooks, Serves Own Genitals At Banquet In Tokyo
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fastlane fosters a pen-pal/lover relationship with a terrorist who blew up herself just yesterday - unlucky
BigDinWaun+
fastlane tries out his first gloryhole - blown by disease ridden mule that likes to snap carrots in half - very unlucky
sunny77
on MIT's Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing: it seems as though+
graycube
on MIT's Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing: I mean after all+
graycube
on MIT's Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing: Why are they wearing+
fastlane
And how could I forget Pepper as she attempts to scare a wild animal. Honey badger doesn't give a meep.~ unlucky
fastlane
Sunny goes to baby a shower. Drowns.~ unlucky
fastlane
Dragonstaff wears a buIIetproof vest. Shot in the face. ~ unlucky
fastlane
BigD meeps the meep out of a girl. Literally.~ unlucky
fastlane
BeachGoat bends over to pick up hot girI's dropped books. meeps. ~ unlucky
fastlane
M_A_M means to write "kk" to black friend on Facebook chat. Adds extra k. ~ unlucky
fastlane
MstrLance finally goes to summer camp. Auschwitz. ~ Unlucky
fastlane
Spanky goes to snort a line of coke. Sneezes. ~ unlucky
fastlane
Post watermelon head post haste.
fastlane
Spanky volunteers to help inner city kids, shot in drive by. ~ unlucky
BeachGoat
Happy Day to Ya, Long May Ye Wave It
BeachGoat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ShbuhpRlo&feature=youtu.be
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on Spanky's Pic Place: Okay here's a+
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on Spanky's Pic Place: I SWEAR I was+
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MstrLance
Happy Birthday, Spanky! You're in your prime for the 13th time.
MstrLance
I bet it's well manicured.
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Try to picture Joan River's meep during the exam. It'll save some embarassment.
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spanky... You Goshdarn two-faced Gemini!
middle_age+
Don't kid yourself, you'll cry yourself to sleep after the next physical. Happy birthday you middle aged meepgot.
dragonstaf+
Happy birthday. Post pic for photoshopping.
sunny77
today on linkswarm, spanky unsuccessfully attempts to change the subject
spankerchi+
Or: Nine years before getting the pickle jar treatment.
spankerchi+
Change of topic; I'm 41 today.
spankerchi+
Ummm...
sunny77
:|
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middle_age+
The doc went at me like he was trying to get the last pickle out of the jar.
StartRecor+
Pepper
Home Sweet meeping Home! Ahhhh...
nurglets
on Camphone Thread: img20120525114046qK5th.jpg
BeachGoat
Tell the GrandMonkey, "He's Dancing with the Tree!"
BeachGoat
There is a 400lb Senegalese Tortoise down the street who has a tree stump for a girlfriend.
BigDinWaun+
My pet Gerbil is dry meep a mound of cedar bedding? What gives?
BigDinWaun+
One of those old Republican Women's Cookbooks or French Gastronomy in Africa?
BigDinWaun+
I'm trying to fashion a rattle and pacifier out of chicken gibblets... does anyone have any references for this... one of those old Republican Women
linkswarm
queue: New link: security forces in Mexico have raided a workshop making fake Mexican military uniforms and body armour.
BeachGoat
"It's a Boy!"
BeachGoat
http://upload.linkswarm.com/i/beachgoat/pullingporkLSg.jpg
spankerchi+
Let the baby roast rest for an hour, then have your guests help pull the meat. Everyone will have fond memories of the event to cherish FOREVER!
spankerchi+
Just remember to give yourself plenty of time for cooking (a field-dressed baby can weigh upwards of 30 lbs and take a FULL DAY to cook!)
spankerchi+
I prefer free range, breast fed toddler as there's more dense muscle mass.
linkswarm
queue: New link: Bachmann's political mentor.
BigDinWaun+
Do you keep them penned up like veal and infuse them with formula or mother's milk? I hear formula fed babies have a medicinal taste. I don't want that for the party.... I would be a terrible host.
spankerchi+
No need to leave the skin on. A toddler's got a lot of good marbling.
spankerchi+
I'd go dry rub and smoke it like a picnic meep.
BeachGoat
HOME!...That is all
BigDinWaun+
Can anyone recommend a Masala that flavors flesh?
sunny77
however much is in a can of coconut cream
pete56
MstrLance
Trans-fat or poly-unsaturated?
BigDinWaun+
How many fat calories in a small, American toddler?
godevilliv+
MstrLance
MIT's new coating should help with that.
graycube
hoyaguru
clipswarmed MstrLance's Dogs Shot by Police
BeachGoat
on Michael McKean (somewhat famous Linkswarmer) found naked in tragic meep car accident: Well, even with a+
StartRecor+
on Michael McKean (somewhat famous Linkswarmer) found naked in tragic meep car accident: i think he might+
BigDinWaun+
on Michael McKean (somewhat famous Linkswarmer) found naked in tragic meep car accident: He could just be+
linkswarm
queue: New link: MIT's Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing
dragonstaf+
Ahh. One of those.
dragonstaf+
Not to my knowledge. Details please.
spankerchi+
That's when you take a really greasy meep and before the meep hits the water it grabs onto your meep hair and swings from tuft to tuft around your a##hole.
dragonstaf+
on Michael McKean (somewhat famous Linkswarmer) found naked in tragic meep car accident: The real question is+
spankerchi+
Speaking of hair removal products; Have you ever taken a Tarzan Sh#t?
spankerchi+
Ugh...too much barbecue pork.




Tue, Jun28
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Well, you've got an eye for color and composition.
However:
Stand by for assrape over the exposure rate and lighting from our resident photogs.
Wed, Jun29
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It's a good start.
Wed, Jun29
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you showed this to /p/? they would have ripped it apart, mainly for:
site made in flash, looks like a pre made template type, doesn't suit a portfolio site with the whole sliding menu thing as a main component, and having mixed landscape and portrait orientated shots makes the whole slide menu look kinda messy.
content wise, nothing exciting, just snapshots. You need to cut a lot out, having multiple pics of the same shot but with different editing looks poor. Simplify it, cut it down to one gallery, with only 4 or 5 categories. people get bored easily and won't trawl through 10 different folders, some with sub categories, keep the cross referencing for your own library but when the same image keeps cropping up in different galleries it will annoy people.
technically wise, exposure seems generic, no experimenting with over/under exposure, selectively using available light on for subjects, what camera do you use? i get the "shot on auto" feeling, try switching to aperture or shutter priority depending on subject if you have a dslr. a lot of the shots would have benefited from a smaller depth of field to isolate the subject or bring out the foreground and blur the background in a more natural way or a faster shutter speed to make subjects sharper, especially the moving ones.
basically, simplify, cut it down down, people will like a site with a few good strong images rather than a lot of weak ones, and make it really simple to switch rather than having categories and subcategories, that's micro-stock territory.
personally, I have one place that I upload everything, one place that has a limit of 200 images so I try and upload only strong shots, and get rid of weaker ones if I run out of space and really want a new shot uploaded, and one place that has a limit of 4 galleries with only 18 images per gallery, that way only the "best" shots get shown.
like tak said, it's a good start, but put some work into it now.
Wed, Jun29
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^ I love shooting my DSLR on aperture priority. That meeping selector hardly ever moves from there.
Also, Stump, good advise above.
Thu, Jun30
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My favorite ones were in the "Misc" category in gallery #1. The photographs are all excellent composition, color, and presentation, but also mostly uninspired and kind of lackluster.
When you are marketing a product or service you usually should think "What are my differentiators? What would make someone pick my product/service over my competitors?"
And then highlight that difference. Yes, "cheaper", and "available" can be considered differentiators.
By uninspired I mean there is little there that any other decent professional or competant amateur photographer could do, there is no differentiator, style, or personality (or evidence that you are 'cheaper' or 'available').
Figure out what it is that makes your work stand out, what makes it yours, what you offer that no one else can, and get rid of the rest - no matter how beautifully composed and exposed those pieces might be.
Thu, Jun30
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why you try fit inside box? box is small and ugly. i see each photo 1000 time before.
Thu, Jun30
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The pictures on your home page should be the ones you consider the best, or the ones that capture your style the best. I would keep a couple of the good bird ones up but take the lesser ones off the home page, move the picture of the meep back, I'd even take all the pictures of people off the home page 'cause it makes me wonder why you took them. And any picture that doesn't look perfect or has a big flaw shouldn't be on your home page, I'd move the one of the bridge up and the picture of the mustang grill though
In short: Nice pictures, look through all them, find the best ones, put them on new home page.
Sun, Jul03
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Thanks on the advice. It is a CSS template, I don't have the skills to program a site, I had to put the second gallery up because a single one flowed past the scroll bar and you couldn't click them.
They were shot mostly in aperture priority with a lot of them around f6.3 or f8 for the nature shots, it tends to be the sharpest with most of my lenses. I actually have to send it out for repair, my front dial that I used for ev compensation in AP is meeped and jumps on me. The work around leads me to setting f stop in AP, switching to SP for compensation then to manual for shutter speed - it sucks meep. I'm not sure I get what you mean about using the under/overexposure though.
I'll rework the galleries to cut down categories, I was thinking multiple categories so people could go specifically to what interests them rather than having to troll through say all the bird shots for a specific type.
What made the misc. your favorite category? Is it a preference for the subjects over nature/landscape images? I admit to not having a 'style', I guess right now it's a 'it is what it is' style for the most part? The site itself is just there to do something with my stuff other than just sit there, I'd be thrilled if someone wanted to buy something but I'm not expecting it to happen, I'm hoping just for more feedback like this as far as the contact page goes.
I think /p/ is softening up, out of the six or seven sites in that thread they had very little to say - we were either all lackluster or they were too busy gearmeeping I guess.
Thanks guys.
Tue, Jul05
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'Misc' was just a little bit more 'arty', and consequently had a little more style than the random snapshots that made up most of the other categories. That is all, nothing in particular. Not all professional photographers should do 'arty' stuff all the time. There is a big market for stock photos of things, and creatures, and people, it is probably the bread and meeper of the photography industry.
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I liked the part where you gave us a vector to social engineer some meepery in your direction.