first time digital shot

gre_soul

got myself a canon S2 IS last week, first digital camera. here is a pic taken yesterday...

Carrigman

Not bad. You should have gone closer to the shoreline so that you wouldn't have those rocks in the foreground. Having foreground interest is a good thing but those rocks don't fit the bill. I'd also have cloned out the cranes on the skyline and have cropped out a bit of the left hand side of the frame so that the sun would be nearer the LHS of the photo. The figure on the shoreline looks odd squatting. Might be better if s/he was standing up. But, hey, it's your first digipic and it's not a time for nitpicking. Go out and enjoy it. Take plenty of photos. Welcome to the digital world and I look forward to seeing more of your stuff in due course.

Flipflip

yeah thats pretty damn good for a first attempt like.

Well done.

Michael G

Carrigman wrote:

You should have gone closer to the shoreline so that you wouldn't have those rocks in the foreground... I'd also have cloned out the cranes on the skyline and have cropped out a bit of the left hand side of the frame so that the sun would be nearer the LHS of the photo.

Nobody, even a genius, takes good pictures all the time. The great thing about digital photograpy is that you don't have to have to pay to have the whole 24 or 26 exposures on a film developed so that you can find the 2 or 3 good ones, and then pay again to have them reprinted if you want more copies. (I know a previous generation did their own developing and printing, but I missed that phase of evolution.) With a digital camera you can just dump the 20-odd duds and keep what you like. Have you computer software with your camera? It should allow you to correct the faults that Carrigman has noticed.

And keep shooting. I have no talent whatsoever – my 78-year-old mother has a natural instinctive eye that lets her take great portrait pictures without ever having heard about the theory – but I am slowly acquiring a bit of technique. Find out about the "rule of thirds" which apparently all Renaissance painters knew — it will make your pictures look better. It works for me anyway.

Dimy

Rule of thirds... he probably has no clue what you're talking about
Read and learn all about it here:

http://www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php

I think it's covered by Lesson 1. Anyway, good shot for a first try!

Michael G

Dimy wrote:

Rule of thirds... he probably has no clue what you're talking about
Read and learn all about it here:

http://www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php

He probably hasn't, though I found some books helpful whe I first took up photography. (Buy the remaindered ones, because there is nothing new in the full-priced ones.)

That's a good link. That's what the internet is for, unless you are looking for simpler kinds of pleasure.

Thirdfox

Carrigman wrote:

...I'd also have cloned out the cranes on the skyline and have cropped out a bit of the left hand side of the frame so that the sun would be nearer the LHS of the photo....

When I first read that I was thinking cranes? in Ireland? why would anyone want to remove them from a picture? (the avian kind )

So imagine my embarrassment when I find out that these cranes definitely do not fly...

Interesting shot btw (not that I'm a photography expert but I suppose my opinion as a general member of the public is important too !)