First Shots with new SLR

syke · 30 Dec 2006 at 23:42

I got a new D-SLR for Christmas. A Nikon D40

Here is a test shot i did, please crit all you want..thats what im wanting as im a beginner

Before Edit:

After Edit:

What do you all think?
My Photoshop skills arent too great though!

Bolerus · 30 Dec 2006 at 23:44

what did you do(for example did you manually alter the eyes)

themask70 · 30 Dec 2006 at 23:44

Quite a nice shot. The exposure seems perfect to me, the colours all look great. And you edited are good for an 'unexperienced' ps user. Over all I think it's a nice shot.

The one tip of improvement I would make is that you should maybe trying using a smaller appeture next time, try and capture a bit more of your cat into focus.

Keep up the good work

And welcome to the DSLR world!

syke · 30 Dec 2006 at 23:44

Bolerus said:
what did you do(for example did you manually alter the eyes)

Yes i added the eyes myself using a different image & enlarging it & cutting through with layers.

Thats all that was changed

syke · 30 Dec 2006 at 23:51

themask70 said:
Quite a nice shot. The exposure seems perfect to me, the colours all look great. And you edited are good for an 'unexperienced' ps user. Over all I think it's a nice shot.

The one tip of improvement I would make is that you should maybe trying using a smaller appeture next time, try and capture a bit more of your cat into focus.

Keep up the good work And welcome to the DSLR world!

Yeah thats what i will do, this was really a test of the Depth of Field and the lens really.

syke · 30 Dec 2006 at 23:56

Heres another shot, this ones not great, but it is pure comedy

Bolerus · 31 Dec 2006 at 00:04

I took some shots last night, had bad red eye on them though, been tryign to figure out someway of getting rid of it.

was in a night club and my nieces 18th birthday

syke · 31 Dec 2006 at 00:05

Bolerus said:
I took some shots last night, had bad red eye on them though, been tryign to figure out someway of getting rid of it.

was in a night club and my nieces 18th birthday

Theres many ways of getting rid of red eye, if you have a look on www.good-tutorials.com, they have a few.

With this one i just used eyes from a different image..which seemed to work adequately

themask70 · 31 Dec 2006 at 00:20

Syk3 said:
Heres another shot, this ones not great, but it is pure comedy

Lol, that made me chuckle

syke · 31 Dec 2006 at 00:21

themask70 said:
Lol, that made me chuckle

Haha it wasnt a shot to get DOF in, but it was a momentary thing and it came out well considering.

What kit do you use Bolerus?

syke · 31 Dec 2006 at 16:58

Any other crit guys?

Bolerus · 31 Dec 2006 at 17:06

I just have an olympus c-740 ultra zoom, thinking of getting a fuji s5600

At work I use a milota dynax 7d (lovely cam) but havent got the disposable cash to get myself a dslr, so have to make do with the point and clicks with manual modes

syke · 1 Jan 2007 at 16:45

Bolerus said:
I just have an olympus c-740 ultra zoom, thinking of getting a fuji s5600

At work I use a milota dynax 7d (lovely cam) but havent got the disposable cash to get myself a dslr, so have to make do with the point and clicks with manual modes

Oh okay

Ive heard the S5600 is a great camera!

ElDude · 1 Jan 2007 at 16:53

If you use Photoshop Elements 4 or 5 (don't know about the earlier versions) there is a red eye removal tool. It actually works surprisingly well.

syke · 1 Jan 2007 at 16:54

ElDude said:
If you use Photoshop Elements 4 or 5 (don't know about the earlier versions) there is a red eye removal tool. It actually works surprisingly well.

Could it do it to that extent?
Considering there is no colour at all.

I now have Photoshop CS2.

Is there a decent tool in that at all?

ElDude · 1 Jan 2007 at 17:06

Dunno, I don't have £600 to spend on CS2

syke · 1 Jan 2007 at 17:13

ElDude said:
Dunno, I don't have £600 to spend on CS2

Me either