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The 1st image is underexposed and the white balance is too blue. The 2nd image is also underexposed in the shadow areas; this is the best of the series and perhaps has the most potential for sale. The 3rd image is poorly composed, lacks a focal point and is completely out of focus. The 4th image needs to be straightened, the highlights reduced a bit and the shadows lifted a bit. If that's a logo on the bull's back, you would need to remove it. You might also get an IP rejection for at least one of the people in the background unless you can provide model releases for them. I would try to edit out the man in the orange shirt.
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Tranck you!!
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I would add: always plan the shot or editing carefully to include a harmonious background. The animal in picture #1 is reasonably composed (perhaps cropped slightly too tight at rear and above), but the blue pipe/rope is distracting, making the composition poor overall. I really like the composition of #2.
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Thank you mate
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For the last: the cover probably needs a property release. But more technical issues will need to be addressed first. Foremost, your picture is missing blacks.
You see it in the picture because all the darker areas are greyish, resulting in a contrast poor image. I also guess that the policeman and the lady will need a model release.
Your first: The eye is sharp (that's good), but there are artefacts and colour noise all over the poor beast's face and generally in the whole image. Checking the histogram:
All of your pictures are taken at ISO 400. But especially the first has a shutter speed of 1/1000 s, you have an f of 2.8. Depending on the situation, you could have gone with a lower ISO or a higher f. It's not that you really need to be at the edge of what the lens can do, especially if your autofocus is not perfect. If your camera is noisy at ISO 400, you need to use good noise reduction. Lightroom now has a great noise reduction feature, that is the first thing I apply when I have a noisy picture. You should re-edit your assets using that feature. No need, however, to try saving a picture, that is out of focus. you can't recover that. And even the best cameras with the best lenses have many pictures out of focus. Therefore, it is important to shoot many times, especially with livestock that moves erratically.
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Your third is out of focus, and you see it without looking hard at the picture. Even the reduced size preview here shows a lack of focus. That pink filler is very disturbing, the person's face, too.
Your second: You should clean up flies like this:
But as we are with the clean-up: this is an IP violation:
You need to edit out the earmark ID.
The important thing with portraits, also animal portraits, are the eyes. They require being crisp sharp, and they need special editing to capture the eye of the viewer. In this picture, the focus seems to be somewhere behind on the horns of the beast.
And guess what, when looking into the histogram, I see the same exposure/post treatment errors than on the following assets.
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Thank you very much for the information, very helpful