vatican ceiling

sionnach

just bought my first ever camera, a trusty old fujifilm s5500, and brought it with me to rome for a few days. Here are my favourite pictures from the trip:

http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~sionnach/photography/rome/vaticanceiling_hires.jpg
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~sionnach/photography/rome/basilica_hires.jpg

This is my first ever foray into photography, constructive criticism would be much appreciated.

Rhyme

Nice shots... id love to take a trip there.

The first is an odd pic, theres not really a proper focal point... it just kinda tails away and out of shot. Granted its very pretty... If you had turned the camera 90 degrees to the right/left it'd have been a marvellous shot. Good work.

The second is very striking... im really liking it. Perhaps the peft arch that you captured could have been cut out by eliminating it out of shot... a damn nice shot though.

Good work.

OY

They are great shots!

We have black and white images hanging in our home from our trip 2 years ago. It is a little surreal to see it in colour as i am so used to the B&W ones!

Brings back some memories too... nice work!

sionnach

Rhyme wrote:

The first is an odd pic, theres not really a proper focal point... it just kinda tails away and out of shot. Granted its very pretty... If you had turned the camera 90 degrees to the right/left it'd have been a marvellous shot.

that's what i wanted to do but if i did there would have been a big crowd of tourists in it, including a couple of englishmen from a stag trip group with matching novelty tshirts, something i didn't want in the shot

Shrimp

Great building, Nice Shots! For your first they are nice, Maybe get to know the functions of your cam a bit, to reduce noise slightly! keep snap happy!