My first outing with the 400D! C&C Welcome . .

DarkShadow · 7 Jun 2007 at 03:31

I recently had my first day out with my 400D recently, I'm using the kit lens in all the pics.

Just a bit of background info; I have absolutely no previous photography skills. That said I've only used a digital camera a handful of times in my life

I'd appreciate any C&C as I can only learn from my mistakes

I've only just got round to post-processing my pics and most of these were trial and error and I managed to fill the capacity of my cards. Here are a few selected ones that I found to be pretty nice (EXIF Embedded):

DarkShadow · 7 Jun 2007 at 03:34

DarkShadow · 7 Jun 2007 at 03:37

Some may slate me for this one, but I like it

DarkShadow · 12 Jun 2007 at 12:03

Thanks for the superb feedback guys, it really has encouraged me to carry on

I did take 200 photos which was rather shocking and I took these into lightroom and whilst 'trying' to crop and apply the rule of thirds are the results you can see. I was rather impressed with the stock version of the last photo, no straightening or cropping . . . t'was a random shot whilst walking.

Ichabod - The light was very strong on that day, it was rather humid and the sun was just above the cooling towers.

NorthstaNder said:
I like the last one the best. The best of what is a good set of photo's.

I like your borders too. Especially the slightly lighter bit before the black border. How did you achieve that effect?

Simple really;

New layer > CTRL + A > Edit > Stroke > 10 pixels white > 20% opacity
New layer > CTRL + A > Edit > Stroke > 8 pixels black

Hope that helped