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Mickeroo

got my canon 300d, was mucking around with it this evening....what ye reckon of the results? i know sunsets are a bit of a cliché but what the hey!

Shane™

Sorry but it's not great, it's not even good.

Mickeroo

Thanks. I'm fully open to criticism, but i'd appreciate if it was a little bit more constuctive, as in whats wrong and how i can improve? I'm a beginner here and trying my best to learn. that pic lost a lot of quality when i shrunk it.

limbovski

Read a tutorial on digital photography specifically on sizing...? Also when you photograph something pick a focal point you have just taken a picture of basically nothing...

We all had to start somewhere though.

Mickeroo

could you point me in the direction of any decent online tutorials??

limbovski

Hmm I'm not sure if these are any good but try

>> www.dpreview.com
>> www.deviantart.com

and maybe search google, there's hundreds of tutorials out there...

bucks

If you are interested in getting a book then you should check out

"Michael Langfords Basic Photography".


Another book which focuses only on digital photography thats good is;

"Rick Sammons Complete Guide to Digital Photography"

Creamy Goodness

also why is an image of 3072x2048 pixels only 90k?

that's the reason for the bad quality and clarity of the shot

Mickeroo

Cremo wrote:

also why is an image of 3072x2048 pixels only 90k?

that's the reason for the bad quality and clarity of the shot

that any better? still getting used of photoshop.

DadaKopf

Hey.

I totally forgot about this photo for ages and came back to it later thinking someone else entirely had taken the photo. I went "wow, what's this?" trying to remember whose photo it was.

I think it's a grand photo - not amazing or anything but I've taken many like it because sunsets are real nice. I took the liberty of Photoshopping your photo; I brought up the contrast, did a little colour balance work to bring out the warm highlights and cool shadows and sharpened it. As it turned out, there's a nice natural framing made by the plants at the front and the dark clouds at the top.

A nice thing to try if you're into landscapes would be to get some more foreground interest into the photo. You can still capture the sunset while brightening up the foreground by fill-flashing it. Usually you'd need an external flashgun.

Look forward to seeing more of your photo postings.

Sparky

I took this picture of my dog but decided to focus on the branches of the tree, im just a begineer of digital photography, what do you think of it.

I Used the Fujifilm S5500 camera

DadaKopf

That one doesn't work for me. Good enough idea if you worked out your depth of field a bit better and the composition worked. I do find things interesting when photographers blur out the point of interest, though.

Since we're posting stuff from digital cameras, here's one of mine. Nothing special.

Sparky

This is the same picture but with the depth different, as with the other pictur i was just testing it out. All Comments good and bad welcome. I learn from mistakes.

DadaKopf

Now the foreground is distracting . Foregrounds are to be used for effect/context, usually in a way that frames the point of interest. Lovely thing about digital: making mistakes is free!

Sparky

True about the free mistakes, anyway cheers for the comments, the great thing about photography is when something hits you, you just have to take a picture of it.
I have a good one on the desktop computer, where a man on a bike crosses the road with streaks and a car passing through it, i think it looks great i must pick it out for you when i get on the other computer, it was taken at dusk so the car lights streak, as im sure you know when you adjust the appature

Miles

This is a good photography forum that I post my pics to:


http://forums.photographyreview.com/index.php?

Alot of very good photographers here and good feed back.

Jefferson Darcy

Here's a great resource, Canon's own learning centre:

http://www.photoworkshop.com/canon/index.html

alb

the three ways to improve are to
- read up on the technical aspects and the science of photography
- take lots of pictures... then take more
- look at as many other pictures as you can and learn from them, try and understand what makes some better than others.

Photo.net has some of the best photos I've seen anywhere online, well worth checking out the top rated pics there. There's also some articles on all aspects of photography which usually have lots of comments from other ppl also.

some of my own photos are on the site if anyone's interested:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=732864&include=all

bucks

Speaking of sunsets,
Here is one i took with my flatmates camera before i left Sydney.
Ye dont want to know how many pics i had to take before i was somewhat happy.

John.

BrookieD

a great site is www.dpchallenge.com, very good learning tool with members willing to give some great advise.

also if you have it or dont get NeatImage and run your pics through this when you finish all post edits, youll be suprised at the end result

Mickeroo

heres a few more. personally i think these are much better than the other i posted.....