My first EVER attempt at photography!

Shrimp

Hey Guys,

I decided to go out around my local area today and take some photos with my Samsung Digimax 202.. a pretty basic camera, not designed for photography as such. Well, I tried my best. So check out the pictures and tell me what you think.

My Gallery

And here's the little beast I took them on..

My Pride and Joy

cecilwinthorpe

the look quite good but ya cant really see them too clearly cos they're so small. could you post a link to them instead so you can see them at full size?

Shrimp

oh yeah crap. I forgot.

Here's my gallery link, They are like the fist 7 pics.

http://shrimp123.deviantart.com/gallery/

Goodshape

Not crazy about the photographs to be honest, but some of the stuff on that page isn't too bad at all. Is it all your own work?

Keep it up anyway.. there may be use for you yet

Shrimp

Yeah, It's all my own work.. 100% Mine, I mean like I only started photography about 22 hours ago :P

red_bairn

Yeah shrimp your work is good. I also only started the other day. I like it. might have it as a hobbie or something.
My gallery

crazy angel

i thought the cutting light one was cool!

Burago

The photos seem to be black and white only for the sake of being black and white. They're very heavy and grey. Black and white photography is about the tones, different shades of grey. It's a whole different way of working and the more you do it the better you'll get. You begin to see colours as shades of grey, previsualising how the scene before you transfer to your print.

I'm not a huge fan of digital black and white but I'd suggest shooting in colour and then converting in Photoshop afterwards, much more control over the final result.

Check out photo.net and read a few tutorials.

Shrimp

on fairness my camera is quite crap. So it's not going to do any photographer justice

red_bairn

i dont know much about using the black and white maybe if somebody had a link for me which would guide me in some photography i would then be extremely grateful.

Shrimp

www.photo.net

Burago

Shrimp wrote:

on fairness my camera is quite crap. So it's not going to do any photographer justice

You'd be surprised what you can do with a really simple camera. The photographer takes the picture not the camera.

KOSS [TGK]

cool! nice pics ;-)

Shrimp

Thanks guys, I'm uploading a few in a couple of mins, I'll post a link to them soon!

29NR01

If you can produce this work with a basic camera, you have THE EYE.
Keep it up, congrats

Shrimp

cheers.. and that was ur first post to.. welcome to boards.

Trip Hazard

Burago wrote:

The photos seem to be black and white only for the sake of being black and white. They're very heavy and grey. Black and white photography is about the tones, different shades of grey. It's a whole different way of working and the more you do it the better you'll get. You begin to see colours as shades of grey, previsualising how the scene before you transfer to your print.

I'm not a huge fan of digital black and white but I'd suggest shooting in colour and then converting in Photoshop afterwards, much more control over the final result.

Black and white photography is nothing unless you develop it yourself in a dark room. colour photography is nice too if you can capture colours right, but if you develop in a dark room you feel much more proud of your photo.

Shrimp

Trip Hazard wrote:

if you develop in a dark room you feel much more proud of your photo.

Thats all well and good if u have a film camera, and not a digi one.. anyway, I think that pride isn't everything. And personally I'd feel just as "proud" either way..

Metacortex

Shrimp wrote:

Thats all well and good if u have a film camera, and not a digi one.. anyway, I think that pride isn't everything. And personally I'd feel just as "proud" either way..

Then you use a digital darkroom, like photoshop. I've always felt it was rather pointless buying a digital camera minus photoshop if you want to do anything more than take snapshots.

Shrimp

I have PS:CS 8 and Macromedia Fireworks

Metacortex

Shrimp wrote:

I have PS:CS 8 and Macromedia Fireworks

Eh...Fireworks isn't wonderful at all for processing images. You should stick to PS, you'll have alot more control at the end of the day.Do you know how to use adjustment layers? Basically they're all you need for processing an image.

Shrimp

yes I know how to use adjustment layers..