Im doing my weekly Q&A on instagram today instagram.com/scottchoucino/

"spliff holder, pokey stick" haha, a man in the know and using the appropriate jargon. Excellent.

This honestly felt like being in a group crit at my old university. Absolutely invaluable feedback and inspiring me to look out for these details myself.

Thanks for reviewing my image! It was number 3, the pasta arranged into a suit. I definitely thought I sent an unwatermarked one so I guess I hit the wrong export settings. Whoops. First off, agree about all the technical suggestions and the next time I attempt it I'll put more work into the lighting. This isn't an excuse, just an explanation, but I only used two of those little LED RGB panels to work with, so that was all the power they've got and putting them farther away would have cost me a lot of light (if you look at the metadata you can see I was already at 1/6 of a second). That said, next time I'll put more work into the lighting. I've been wanting to retry this shot with a tweak to the concept anyway.

The Picanto driving creative thinking a combustion engine's piston is either a weed grindr or a part of a coffee machine was just *chefs kiss*, thank you for that moment Scott!

7:42 is me!! I shot it on a nikon d3500 and you’re absolutely right about the filenaming, it’s something I’ve been meaning to put a system together for for a long time so hopefully this’ll give me a push, but thank you so much for your critique, I really appreciate it 🖤

29 was an engine crankshaft detail . 32 is a piston.

So excited to see my onion picture end up in the vid. Also relieved there wasn't anything I didn't already know was wrong with it

Thank you so much for reviewing my photos. I shot the engine parts 29 and 32. Funny seeing all the comments about them. I got some inspiration for the piston one from your work, so thank you for the advice of it being flat, I will try to make it more dynamic by having the blue box at an angle to cast some shadows. Also the file naming…

Would just to like to say thanks. I've just found your channel and I'm learning loads. Your honest, blunt and educational reviews of photos are very interesting and different from a lot of the other channels. I'm not ready to send anything to you yet but I'm going to. Thanks Steve

Love a brutally honest critique. Definitely see my own images in some of these and also spotted a few things you went on to mention, which helps me understand where my progression is on the grand scale of things. Please do more.

@18:16 I completely agree, you are right its too messy. I just got those geometric shapes and forgot about the most important thing, the product. Thank you! And f22 cos i wanted it in one shot without focus stacking to save time but i ended up patching two images anyway. I'm glad you liked the green color at least :) will do better next time. Its weird that in this job, you have to focus so much on one image, make it perfect if possible and then shortly after forget about it and move on to the next project.

@24:58 Thanks for the feedback on my pocket knife image, it is in-fact from America. There are some UK legal pocket knives out there. I’m going to work on my focus stacking skills for sure. Thanks again! -Logan

@8:58 Thank you for making this type of video! They inspire and motivate us to move forward! I'll deffo double-check more about the flash!

Wow, your eye for detail, love it.

Awesome, thanks for being honest and pointing out details. This is something we as beginners need to watch and learn. To many bad Or mediocre images floating about being called good.

Great vid love these

When you said you have no idea about cars you were not joking hahaha.

loved this vid so much, helped me figure out how meticulous and professional you are looking at the fine and important details like clean cups, no smudges, etc, along with bits of advice on lighting. loved it. chuckled when you confused engine parts with weed slicers and coffee distribution tools though haha.

One of your main quibbles was on filenames. By so much critique I was wondering what your filing system looks like. According to my thinking, a file name is completely inadequate anyway. You need tags, stars categories and all sorts of things stuffed into the metadata. But then filing a photo consumes much more time than the time used for taking it. Including any editing.

25:37 It’s an piston for an internal combustion engine, a 4 stroke piston. Hard to tell what engine but, my guess would be some sort of small engine piston. 🤙🏻

Fascinating hearing your take. I think concepts are the most difficult thing for me at the moment.

Your so blunt, I love it...

Haha of course you found the bit of fuzz on the ice cream 🤣. And yeah, there’s a bit if green color cast on the cone from the surface. Thought I dealt with it, but seems I could have been a bit more aggressive in post

26:00 Engine piston

Thank you, much appreciate the video.

The one after the beer and skull image is a piston. The earlier “thing” is a camshaft…from an engine..

3rd from the end is a piston for an engine

and the engine part with the blue background is the piston head

@Tin Houde Studio - Part At 26 min is a piston for a combustion engine.

Hey Scott. Will there be another editions of photo reviews from you?

StAub is French iron cast pan. Comments alright for the other engine parts

Question: What would you suggest are good ways to keep up with current trends? For years I subscribed to the British Journal of Photography, but stopped as they changed the format and it just seemed like a recycled repetition of the same contrived "edgy" surrealism month after month...

Overall, a good review of the submissions. Your observations were of value to me, although I’m probably not as competent as these examples.

DSC is sony

Could you maybe film a video about image/file name Management? I’m a portrait photography and sometimes I export a websize image for proofs before sending the real images to the client. How would you name these files?

Thanks a lot for the video. Any chance of you doing it again? I'd love to submit some of my food shots for you to review.

Do you have a video on suggested file naming as I have the mothers own job finding files I took in the past. Haven't yet stumbled on a good system to be able to lay my hands on exact images quickly yet. Need help before it bites me on the ass down the road.

Looks like we need a follow up video on file management and file naming.

This was photo roasting 😅

I would like to have some of my stuff reviewed but I do not commercial work ... know of any otherresources?

19.13 looks like CGI.

Crap. I wish I could have given one of my images

The engine part is the crankshaft. The pistons clamp to it.

What is the "Naughties?" You say it quite frequently but I don't think anyone knows what it means. I ask this on behalf of your fans lol

Absolutely useless. If you have any photo sense, what he adds is pure dribble.