Luisi's Best Photos

I will be posting what I consider to be the best photos that I have taken since I got my Nikon D7000. Every photo posted to this thread will be taken with that camera unless I say otherwise in the post. Each of the photos posted here are either already part of my portfolio site on Coroflot.com (http://www.coroflot.com/kluisi) or I am posting it here for opinions on whether it is good enough to be posted there.

I am hoping that by posting these photographs, that I can get some feedback from the more experienced photographers on this site so that I can continue to improve. I am looking for a few different bits of advice for each photograph: First, do you think they are worthy of being included in my online portfolio. Second, are there any post processing improvements that you see for any of the photos. Third, what could I have done differently when taking the photo to make it better straight out of the camera.

Thanks in advance. I have 58 photographs currently on my site. I will try to post 5-10 related photos a day until they are all posted (rather than posting all of them at once).

Thanks everyone for taking the time to check them out and give me any tips and/or pointers.

- Kris

First my 10 personal favorite photos (in no particular order):

#1. My wife and 3 daughters (twins + 1). Caroline, Madeline (6), Paige (6 - one minute younger than Madeline), and Hannah (2) from oldest to youngest.


#2. Madeline:


#3. Paige:


#4. Madeline and Paige:


#5. A picture of Hannah where she's sad:


#6. A picture of Hannah where she's happy:


#7. My Nephew Tyler looking intense at his soccer game:


#8. My Neice Emily and her great eyes:


#9. Jefferson Memorial:


#10. Cherry Blossoms in front of the Jefferson Memorial:

I like the shot of Tyler but would have cropped slightly different,if it doesn't have fur or feather though i get a bit lost

Pretty nice shots there.

mikew said:

I like the shot of Tyler but would have cropped slightly different,if it doesn't have fur or feather though i get a bit lost

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How would you have cropped it? More? Less? Just differently? Thanks. This was one of my favorites of the whole bunch too. I thought it really worked in B&W.

Nice shots... You are working well with that camera and have a good eye.

Jefferson memorial: it would have been more interesting if the "focused building" had a blurred (out of focus) branch with buds in the foreground...

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Jefferson memorial: it would have been more interesting if the "focused building" had a blurred (out of focus) branch with buds in the foreground...

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Thanks for the edit on Tyler. Looks to me like you cropped it a little closer, then added a Radial Gradient with some outside darkening and lowered clarity. Did catch everything, or did you also make any other changes?

As for the Jefferson, I definitely think it could have used something in the forground to add interest there, but I thought the sky and colors (I think this was a golden hour photo) made it look almost like a painting rather than a photograph. I think that's what I liked so much about it.

Yes, I too think the Jeff is fine as it is. I only thought you could have taken the "reverse photo" and have a sort of "flowers-in-focus+blurred building vs blurred flowers+building-in-focus" tandem...

Kind of:

Next round of photographs. These ones are all of my wife and/or kids.

#11. Caroline and Hannah at my Brother's wedding:


#12: Caroline and Paige on a sunset cruise:


#13: Caroline and Hannah at the pumpkin patch. This was not a posed shot, just an impromptu and unexpected hug from behind:



#14. Madeline, Paige, and Hannah at the pumpkin patch:


#15. Madeline on the beach:


#16. Madeline and Paige in their Nutcracker Ballet Recital costumes:


#17. Paige on Halloween as Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates:


#18. Madeline on Halloween as Belle from Beauty and the Beast:


#19. Hahhan on Halloween as Minnie Mouse:

kluisi said:

Next round of photographs. These ones are all of my wife and/or kids.

#11. Caroline and Hannah at my Brother's wedding:
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#12: Caroline and Paige on a sunset cruise:
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#13: Caroline and Hannah at the pumpkin patch. This was not a posed shot, just an impromptu and unexpected hug from behind:
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#14. Madeline, Paige, and Hannah at the pumpkin patch:
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#15. Madeline on the beach:
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#16. Madeline and Paige in their Nutcracker Ballet Recital costumes:
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#17. Paige on Halloween as Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates:
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#18. Madeline on Halloween as Belle from Beauty and the Beast:
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#19. Hahhan on Halloween as Minnie Mouse:
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You have a very cute family Keep up the great work.

wthorson said:

You have a very cute family Keep up the great work.

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Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I agree, but I may be biased.