First shots with DSLR, C&C please

Jimmy1983 · 25 Oct 2008 at 15:06

Hi all, these are my first shots using my 400D, took quite a few photos today and I reckon these are my best so far. Please feel free to tell me what you think.

More to follow...

Willis · 25 Oct 2008 at 15:48

The first shots of the car are not great because the fence gets in the way and and makes it a messy shot. You will need a faster shutter speed for the cars also. Is your 400D set to manual or auto ?

Not sure what your trying to do with the people in the street but looks like you got you shutter open to long :confused:

unless that's the shot you want to produce. Just keep practicing mate

Jimmy1983 · 25 Oct 2008 at 15:58

Willis said:
The first shots of the car are not great because the fence gets in the way and and makes it a messy shot. You will need a faster shutter speed for the cars also. Is your 400D set to manual or auto ?

Not sure what your trying to do with the people in the street but looks like you got you shutter open to long unless that's the shot you want to produce. Just keep practicing mate

All using manual mate, by a faster shutter speed. Do you mean the aperture?

Willis · 25 Oct 2008 at 16:09

Jimmy1983 said:
All using manual mate, by a faster shutter speed. Do you mean the aperture?

Your F-stop is your aperture and your camera's shutter is the tool that you use to control the amount of time that you let light reach your film.

Have a read of this http://www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php was really helpfully to me. see lesson 2 about aperture and shutter speed.

peterattheboro · 25 Oct 2008 at 16:22

Avoid fences at all costs!!!

Unless your taking some moody shot of a fence of course.

Jimmy1983 · 26 Oct 2008 at 19:00

Few from last night

Twentymac · 26 Oct 2008 at 19:50

nice one man , ive wantted to do some motorway trails but havent got round to it yet.

cooljimy84 · 26 Oct 2008 at 23:58

I love that !!!!

Don't surpose u have it in a higher res.... wood look sexy as a back ground

Pink · 27 Oct 2008 at 12:40

I really like your night time shots.

Jimmy1983 · 27 Oct 2008 at 21:17

wicked thanks for the comments :-D

Yup will up load high rez versions. Any idea why some of the sky is really dark? Any tips on how I can impove them?

Bri · 27 Oct 2008 at 21:42

Jimmy1983 said:
Any idea why some of the sky is really dark?

Because it's night time? :confused:

Begbie · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:26

Not a fan on the first bunch, too much going on eyes don't really know where to look.

The motorway bunch are great, reminds me I need to get a tripod.

Amnesia · 28 Oct 2008 at 03:49

the first lot look like they were taken with a camera phone(sorry if its coming across as rude).

i like the night time shots though.....november the 5th is coming up soon so using the same technique you can get some nice firework shots.

Jimmy1983 · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:19

Cheers people, I like to hear all of your views so far. They where my first SLR shots, so ian quite happy them. I didn use a tripod for the night shots, borrow my dads which is too short. Any pointers on how I could impove the shots?

Jimmy1983 · 1 Jan 2009 at 22:11

A few from Tuesday, none have been edited. Not sure what was going on with the sun in some of them?

The_Abyss · 1 Jan 2009 at 23:30

Seriously mate.

Start a new thread, because I nearly couldn't be bothered to look past the first photos.

Secondly, at least orientate the photos correctly.

Sorry to be blunt, but if you are posting for C &C, give yourself the best opportunity.

Jimmy1983 · 2 Jan 2009 at 10:08

The_Abyss said:
Seriously mate.

Start a new thread, because I nearly couldn't be bothered to look past the first photos.

Yeah sorry man, intention was to see if there was an improvement from the first lot.

The_Abyss said:
Secondly, at least orientate the photos correctly.

Sorry to be blunt, but if you are posting for C &C, give yourself the best opportunity.

Yer no excuses, I should have organized them better.

Anyone got any views on them?

uv · 2 Jan 2009 at 10:46

The last five pictures are fairly under exposed, but it can be hard to expose for the entire scene when facing the sun. Whilst the new photo's could do with horizon alignment, and some post processing, they are definitely technically better - better focusing, better settings, better composition.

Download the Adobe Lightroom demo, and work some magic!

Jimmy1983 · 2 Jan 2009 at 10:53

uvmain said:
The last five pictures are fairly under exposed, but it can be hard to expose for the entire scene when facing the sun. Whilst the new photo's could do with horizon alignment, and some post processing, they are definitely technically better - better focusing, better settings, better composition.

Download the Adobe Lightroom demo, and work some magic!

Thanks, on each shot i checked the exposure on the camera before I took the shot I was only playing with the aperture setting and tv setting setting to try to get the exposure bar in the middle on the scale on the camera. Do you know why the sun has changed shape, and doesnt look very much like a circle?

post processing?

Whats lightroom? Can you not use photoshop instead?

Mark A · 2 Jan 2009 at 11:19

Love the motorway shots. I really need to get round to doing some of those.