Luke, I don't know man. I've kinda held my tongue as a professional courtesy, but man please work on the photography. You are in a position of access to get good photos of people, but you are just not doing the right thing.

I'm not sure if you deliberately post bad pictures so that you can make the porn folks look bad, or if you just really have no eye for this...

But here's some tips!

1) COMPOSITION! Dude. Your composition is god awful. Think about what you are framing in the shot and why.

2) Stop with the extreme closeups. They are just terrible. I don't think there is ever a reason to post a closeup of two peoples' heads.

3) What is with the cropping? When you take a picture, compose it so that it needs as little cropping as possible. It's my opinion if thought and care goes into the actual shot you don't need to crop it at all. Maybe you are cropping some of the pics and that makes your closeups appear so extreme...

4) Why post the blurry, out of focus pictures? I am sure that plenty of 'real world' photographers get pictures that are messed up, out of focus, and poorly composed. Their secret to success, however, is they don't post them. They toss them!

5) When you go to an event Luke, sit down afterwords with your pictures and pull out the best 20 or so and post them! We don't need 13 pictures of the exact same pairings, it's not like we're disecting the Zapruder film looking for the 4th bullet. One or two pics will do.

Anyways, I just want to see ya do better, Allah willing.

Tony

You make we want to be a better man.

I disagree, Malice. I love the innocence, good humor and vigor conveyed in this photo of a cute girl with a healthy tongue:

I think Luke posts the worst possible pictures of people on purpose. On his home hard-drive he has gorgeous, perfect pictures of everyone in Porno.

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everytime i'm around a camera i aim to take photos in the luke style, however i'm unable to accurately ape the "extreme close ups of girls looking hideous whilst picking their nose" method. and i'm not being sarcastic when i say i want to- you just can't learn it in school kids.

the best thing about luke's photography however is that whenever he's around jasmine byrne, who appears to be even more omnipresent than sunny lane, luke takes about 25 photos of her.

Coming from this...hmmmmmm.

Remember Huang Lo?

Tony, I believe we've been through this before. Luke needs to keep on doing what he's doing. He's keeping balance in the universe or some existential shit.

Yeah, but that fucking piece of crap is either 1) out of focus, or 2) resized larger than the final crop so that's pixelated to shit.

What the fuck is this guy shooting with? The garbage below looks like he was attempting a macro-distanced shot with a fucking tele that won't focus under 2 feet?

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I disagree, Malice. I love the innocence, good humor and vigor conveyed in this photo of a cute girl with a healthy tongue:

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Judging by the photos I see on his website, they must be someone else's.

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I think Luke posts the worst possible pictures of people on purpose. On his home hard-drive he has gorgeous, perfect pictures of everyone in Porno.

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Luke uses a Nikon D100 SLR with a nikon 28-105 f/3.5-4.5 lens. However, he uses manual focus for his shots because the autofocus is shit in the dark with just an onboard flash.

As for the lack of colour and contrast in the pics, the lens he's using may be a dud.