My work in Photo.

SeanTom

SeanTom

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For the past year i've been acquiring the skills and tricks of the trade to successfully promote my work and expand in a field i am nothing but passionate about. Here is simply my flickr page and a few examples if you don't feel like clicking the link and checking out my work. Feedback is always welcome as i'm constantly looking to improve. K Thanks
-Seantom
(i used spell check a shitton)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magicaljibber/

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wow man, I browsed through your flickr and was pretty impressed. Angles and overall compostion are creative, lens choice seems to be used well in different situations, and technical stuff like exposures and focus all seem to be spot-on from the way I see it. Keep up the solid work bro!

I might have just missed the info on your account but do you mind sharing your setup? ie body, lenses
 
^thanks man! I really appreciate it. My camera specs are as follows
Nikon D200Nikkor 50mm f1.8Nikkor 14mm f2.8Nikkor 80-200 f2.8Tamron 17-50mm f2.8Tokina 12-24mm f4Samyang 8mm f3.5
2X Pocket wizard Plus 2Nikon SB-28
with a Tamrac 4X Expedition to hold it all
 
Frankly, I'm not that impressed. There was maybe one picture that was above average. You have a d200 man. Best camera for rich, deep colors. Fix your white balance. Do you shoot raw? I really don't like that style of shooting up close. If you're going to use a wide lens, use it sparingly. It looks like the flashes are right next to the camera. Spread them out. The whole point of off camera is to get them away from the camera. Learn to use rim lighting and fill during the day. It'll make your pictures soooo much better.
 
there we go. I've been messing with my white balance recently but all said and done i'm still learning how to use the camera. For most of the really up close wide angle shots i used the camera mounted flesh (so pro right). I'm still playing with my pocket wizards and you can probably tell which photos i used them and my sb-28 in. I've never heard of rim or fill lighting, google has though, if they both refer to me using my flash to light areas during already sunny shoots then i'm at a loss. i've played around with doing that and even with my flash on full power the effects are minimal at best. thanks man.
 
you use a fill flash to put more light where needed. for example, if you were to take a photo of a sunset but wanted light on a persons face (who is facing the camera), you would set the flash so that it goes off on just them. This lets the backlit person still have detail in their face
 
This.

I like to know whats going on in pictures. When you crop out everything but the skier and 2 feet of rail I have no clue what hes doing, where hes going, what the feature looks like, etc. Widen up.
 
Bump it up. This is just what you find visually pleasing and what works with your style. Unlike the person you quoted you don't give me tips on how to improve my style other than to make my pictures wider so you can see the action. For me when it comes to ski pictures i'll take a wide shot if i think a wide shot is right. The thing i hate is playing "where's waldo" with an image.
 
i just browsed your flickr, and it seems like you didnt post your best on here... the 3rd one looks uber cropped. and most of the others are too close, its probably just a phase, and youll grow out of it. i didnt see any fantastic pictures, but the majority of them were well exposed and decent overall, the thing that will help you most right now is using the rule of thirds (google it) it will teach to take better pictures by not having the subject dead center all the time, which is by far your biggest problem right now.
 
True, it may just be an opinion, but so is yours i guess? Look at pro ski/board photographers, and you will see they show the skier in his/her environment, and tend not to use cropped shots.I personally like to see where the skier is going or is coming from, and how gnarly the feature is or whatever.but keep it up, youve got good potential
 
Hey not bad!!!!! I really liked a lot of your photos but your best seemed to be the "stills." I don't know a lot about photography but I was MOST impressed with the non action shots. Your "Epic On" shot was done very well. Try doing more of what you did for that shot.

But I still enjoyed your pictures! Nice!
 
yeah i gotta agree on this one. I wish a lot of the shots showed more context of the situation. To me, a photo is good when it tells a story, and the run-in to a jump/landing of a jump (or whatever the situation is) is important in telling that.
 
My opinion, love themThe first one to me just looks dope, and the second one, i'd put that as my backround on my macbook if i took that pic
 
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