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Stariva
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[2011-12-30 18:28:15 +0000 UTC]
(Germany)
# Statistics
Favourites: 205; Deviations: 112; Watchers: 13
Watching: 46; Pageviews: 17606; Comments Made: 779; Friends: 46
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: C. Monet, K. Haring, R. LongoFavorite movies: old Pixar's, Warm Bodies, Star Wars, Marvel's
Favorite TV shows: Everything with cakes in it and NCIS, Criminal Minds, Agent Carter, Game of Thrones, ...
Favorite books: Jingo
Favorite games: SW:TOR, Plants vs. Zombies
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Oven, rolling pin, cutters, piping bag | Sony a57, GIMP | MS Paint, Wacom graphic tablet | Pencil + Paper
# Comments
Comments: 31
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You're welcome I have a thing for Jawas and it's such a cute cake. Utinni!
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just keep making awesome cakes
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thank you
and thank you so much for the many favs Β
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Thank you for the comment. You're one of the few people who do
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You're welcome 
I would really love to have more comments (and a lot of other deviants, too) and so I go and give them.
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so many llamas
but let me tell you a secrect: I prefer comments and 
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haha 
*noted*
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Hello ! Just saw your comment on Angelo's journal - took a look at your gallery, and as you say you want comments, i'll leave you an honest one: what i saw of your photographs looks a lot like stock photography, at least what stock photography is in the real world, ie conventionnal shots of nature, centered flowers, skies, birds and so on. They look like photos you'd find in a brochure about healthy lifestyles. It's not a negative comment and i hope you dont take it that way, taking that kind of photos is a way to make a living of it. But if you're trying to express yourself artistically, this is not it. Your work lacks personality, emotion, originality. But it's not a bad thing if you just want to take pretty conventional pictures.
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Wow, thanks for this long comment! I'm not taking it wrong, a comment like this is what I've been waiting for - for someone to tell me what they don't like, what I could do better.
I can understand the comparison to stock/conventional, probably because I started with pictures for postcards. But I can't really follow the lack of personality, because that clear uncluttered style IS me. When you look at all the pictures, clothes, objects, etc. I ever made/designed it looks like me. So should I start over again?
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I don't mean this style isn't you necessarily, it's just a very generic style. If i saw a photo of a flower, then of a sky, then a macro insect by someone different than you, i don't think i could tell the difference. With your photography as of today you use codes and visuals that are very common, that every person with a camera who goes in the countryside can (in theory) do. You can of course say it is your style, but in that case you have a low esteem of your style as it is most people's. So my advice would be that if you feel that you have the technical abilities to take a pretty picture but want to build your photographic language, i would tell you to wonder why you take photos of flowers, without answering "well because they're pretty". Photography has a power, an evocative power, it conveys feelings and thoughts. Try to use that, maybe (and please don't do the ring on a book that makes a heart)
At one point i started wondering why i ever take photographs and it's a very deep question.
If your aim is to take photos that can decorate your desktop you're on the right path. If you feel you have a sensitivity that needs to be expressed, you're not doing it right.
Find your language. Take more risks. Take into consideration that photography is first of all about light. Then content. And that these two create something that the viewer might relate to, or think about for a minute.
And i am not at all talking about your tshirts etc, this is not my area.
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Welcome to
Hope you enjoy the group!
Also be sure to stop by the Β group chat to meet other photographers, share your art and get tips and critiques! Β 
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well, it's a really beautiful picture
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could you please take a second to have a look
at my design for the contest? [link]
maybe you'll like it.. Vote & Fav? it would really mean a lotβ₯
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You could have a look at my designs in return
[link] [link]
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Sure thing
voted for both ^^ good luck!
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Thanks for the watch!
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