Looking for constructive critisism on my pics. I've just set up a small studio and I'm on a massive learning curve at the moment

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As you say, studio photography is a massive learning curve.
Your natural light shots such as the child outside, the baby crying, and the baby outside, all look good - well lit, and well composed.

Your photos categorized under Gothic & fetish are also well lit, well composed and overall - they're pretty good photos.

Your white background studio shots seem to suffer from over-exposure. I don't know if you've tried to go for the "high-key" look?
You've started to nail getting good exposure on the first 2 photos in your gallery though 3 and 4 look like they're being lit by the background lights too - which is normally caused when you have the model too close to the background.
Further on in your port, you look like you've started to get to grips with good exposure.

You've got a good start to your portfolio and as you say, its a massive learning curve - and its all down to practice, practice practice.

I hope thats helped

James

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I echo Jame's comments, but just want to add that the first few show quite a bit of colour fringing too. This could be either due to the lens (is it a kit lens?), or could be down to the over-exposure. Either way it is very visible and takes too much away from the image.

Are you using raw, or JPG. If the latter then you really need to change to raw format so you can fix any issues in post-prod without losing any quality.

The mono and outdoor shots are great - well composed and exposed. Well done.