Hi everyone,
This is my first post here, but I've been looking at this forum and Fujirumors for a while now. I'm a 32 years old enthusiast photographer from Canada. I learned photography almost 20 years ago with film, I used to photograph my skateboarder and snowboarder friends using a Minolta camera when I was a teenager. Then like most of you, I switched to digital as young adult, almost 10 years ago. I used to photograph a lot of travelling/landscape pictures prior to to having kids. After having my first child, I felt like I had less opportunity to travel, and my camera remained on the shelf for almost 2 years (beside baby pictures). I heard about the X-T1 one day, and I decided to make the jump and buy a new camera.
Of course, I felt in love with the system. Although I was planning to work on landscapes again, the camera and family context drove me toward portraiture. Like all father & photographer, I started with picture of my own kids, then I tried to expend my work to family, friends, and mostly co-workers. One thing leading to another, I did more and more work for the business I'm working for. While I can't say I'm a professional photographer, I have many projects going on at work (like books), and a portion of my paid time is spent on photography. I must admit that I really happy about it!
I'm happy with what I managed to learn in the last 2 years of portraiture, but I'm really starving for more feedbacks from photographers. Social networks are nice for sharing picture, but "Likes" is not what I'm looking for at this point. I don't care if it's negative criticism, as long as it's respectful. I don't know if this is a common practice, but I'm thinking about using this single topic to share some of my recent work and get feedbacks.
Thanks in advance to everyone who will give me feedbacks.
I'll share recent pictures as soon as this first post is approved, in the meantime you can check my work on my website and my 2016 portrait overview:
http://www.jbfilion.com
http://jbfilion.com/2016.html