A few of my 1st pics

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Hi guys,

well i took the plunge having ummed and ahhhed for a long time about getting a DSLR and here are some of my early pics.

I am pretty much a complete novice at photography and am particularly unexperienced at processing on the comp. Canon 400D with the 18-55mm lens which i am replacing with a 17-70mm Sigma.

So i am shooting in RAW and trying to learn - how to take pics and then how to edit them and i realise i have a long journey ahead!! C & C welcomed...you may be brutal!

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I like the first one the best, I think though if you put the horizon on a 'thirds' line (rule of thirds) it would be a bit more composed.

Are you sharpening these RAW files? If so, which method are you using?
 
If that's where you live, you are very lucky! I would love to have that amount of scenery to play with...but as it is I'm stuck in London :rolleyes:

I doubt you'll have any problem at all finding something creative to do with that landscape. Maybe you could wait until low light and then get a silhouette of one of the horses with something behind it (fence/machinery?).

Out of the shots you've posted, I definately like the 1st and 2nd ones the best. Although I feel there's something wrong with the DOF on no.2. Can't quite work out what it is though.
 
tim80bwi said:
If that's where you live, you are very lucky! I would love to have that amount of scenery to play with...but as it is I'm stuck in London :rolleyes:
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hehe, if you can't find something to take photos of in London, you must be off your rocker!! I find it really weird that anyone with a camera is always jealous of where other people live! if you live in a city, you want to be able to take photos of the countryside and vice versa, if you live in-land you always want to be able to take photos of the sea! make the most of what you've got - there's something to photograph everywhere.
 
Tim80bwi, where in London are you based?
I'm also in London, I just mainly goto a eco park thats near me. Once I get a tripod I'm to go into central to get some nice landscapes and long exposures done.
 
Hi Michael,
I'm in Tottenham...which is why I don't fancy wandering around locally with a £500 piece of kit! :D How about you?

If truth be told, my EOS 400D is actually still on order, but I'm hoping to be out and about soon enough. It's only a short drive from here out into Herts, so I will hopefully find something interesting to snap. I think I will also try out central London like you said.

sic, I couldn't agree with you more! It's probably just that I've been living here my whole life, so it's a bit of an assumption that anything I take a pic of here will be boring to all who see it. hehe
 
tim80bwi said:
sic, I couldn't agree with you more! It's probably just that I've been living here my whole life, so it's a bit of an assumption that anything I take a pic of here will be boring to all who see it. hehe
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I definitely know how that feels!

just noticed that the last shot looks like the shop in Royston Vasey
 
tim80bwi said:
Hi Michael,
I'm in Tottenham...which is why I don't fancy wandering around locally with a £500 piece of kit! :D How about you?

If truth be told, my EOS 400D is actually still on order, but I'm hoping to be out and about soon enough. It's only a short drive from here out into Herts, so I will hopefully find something interesting to snap. I think I will also try out central London like you said.
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I'm very near Elephant and Castle and also have a 400D. Maybe in the future we could go find places to take photos and try out each other's lens. Currently I just have the kit lens and the nifty fifty. Looking to get the Sigma 70-300 APO macro.
 
Nice pictures and a nice part of the world.

Blackley if I'm not mistaken... just at the top of the road from where i grew up in Elland :)
 
I like the winking horse (I know it's not actually winking, but it looks like it) :D

I like the lighting in the first shot, but the ladder spoils it. Maybe stand on that to take the shot when you go back.

The last shot has the perfect angle and the light is pretty good, but I'd definitely go back there to get shots with various types of sky. I think that could make the shot.
 
ElDude said:
I like the winking horse (I know it's not actually winking, but it looks like it) :D

I like the lighting in the first shot, but the ladder spoils it. Maybe stand on that to take the shot when you go back.

The last shot has the perfect angle and the light is pretty good, but I'd definitely go back there to get shots with various types of sky. I think that could make the shot.
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I disagree. The ladder makes that first shot perfect. But I'm not sure whether it would look better in silhouette or not.
 
thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback.

Yep it's Blackley baptist church (old methodist church i think) just off the M62 at junction 24.

i played about with Lightroom to get the sky darker on all of them as it was getting blown out...was that the right thing to do yeah?
 
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