C&C 3rd time out with my Dlsr!!!

amg · Mar 22, 2012

Hi There
3rd time out with my Dlsr I have had it since Nov ugh..... Wish I had more time.
Anyways took these shots of my gfs kids at a park in British Columbia let me know what you think..... I had to shot in jpeg because I dont have any post processing programs at the moment saving up for lightroom....They are also unedited but I did shoot everything in Manual

I refuse to put it in auto or I will never learn so I do lots of reading when I get a chance.....I love photography!!!!

Thank you everyone for your help and any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.....

Oh and another question my gfs sun is a squinter he was so hard to shoot any advice on getting him to open those big eyes?????

IMG_2157 by ashleymg, on Flickr

IMG_2211 by ashleymg, on Flickr

IMG_2151 by ashleymg, on Flickr

The_Traveler · Mar 22, 2012

1) Shoot in portrait aspect
2) get down at their eye level to shoot.
3) expose for the skin

I cropped, brightened her face, darkened the top of the backgrouns, sharpened, added a little vignette.

DiskoJoe · Mar 22, 2012

Just use the editing software that came with your camera or get gimp.

Jeff92 · Mar 22, 2012

Lol she looks scared in the second one

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480sparky · Mar 22, 2012

amg said:
.......... I had to shot in jpeg because I dont have any post processing programs at the moment..............

Nothing came with the camera?

Redeyejedi · Mar 22, 2012

1,2,3, that the traveler suggested, and perhaps avoid cutting off the heads.

and nikon nx2 and canon dpp are also just a few bytes/min away

amg · Mar 22, 2012

Haha she was scared in the second one!!!!! There was 2 eagles and a big nest up in the tree and some birds started flying by and then the Eagles started soaring to protect their babies.....*sigh* I wish I had a better lense with some zoom it was beautiful!!!!! But anyways it scared her and she is such a rough and tough tomboy I thought it was cute that she was scared!!! I have the software but I havent tried using it yet just trying to get used to all the cameras settings and composition etc. I have it on my computer but for some reason it wont let me edit raw files so I and saving for lightroom and just shooting jpeg in the meantime.....Should I be able to edit and convert raw files to jpeg with canons software???? I have a canon rebel t3??????
And the traveller I love that edit!

chuasam · Mar 22, 2012

try to give the subjects more space to breathe. They seem so cramped in the frame.

Jeff92 · Mar 22, 2012

I believe a quick google search may yield you a freeware software that will convert raw to jpeg. Have you heard of gimp? Gimp is free and will let you Moe edits. What do I know though. I still didn't order my camera yet. Just waiting to get paid

should be ordering it sometime next week. Im pumped

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480sparky · Mar 22, 2012

Jeff92 said:
I believe a quick google search may yield you a freeware software that will convert raw to jpeg. Have you heard of gimp? Gimp is free and will let you Moe edits. What do I know though. I still didn't order my camera yet. Just waiting to get paid should be ordering it sometime next week. Im pumped

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GIMP alone won't handle raw. You would need to install UFRAW with it, and since both are open source, it's not easy to do unless you're computer-savvy.

Raw Therapee, however, will to the trick.

amg · Mar 22, 2012

Ill just keep saving for lightroom and work on getting everything else right! And then once I have a good editing program I will have some photos to play around with!!!! Might as well learn to get good shots from the start and then editing with be a bonus!!! I have a habit of cutting off heads next time I will be working on that and leaving more space in my frames!!!!

cgipson1 · Mar 22, 2012

amg said:
Ill just keep saving for lightroom and work on getting everything else right! And then once I have a good editing program I will have some photos to play around with!!!! Might as well learn to get good shots from the start and then editing with be a bonus!!! I have a habit of cutting off heads next time I will be working on that and leaving more space in my frames!!!!

People are vertical subjects.. so shoot vertical! There is a reason it is called portrait mode.....

sm4him · Mar 22, 2012

amg said:
I have the software but I havent tried using it yet just trying to get used to all the cameras settings and composition etc. I have it on my computer but for some reason it wont let me edit raw files so I and saving for lightroom and just shooting jpeg in the meantime.....Should I be able to edit and convert raw files to jpeg with canons software???? I have a canon rebel t3??????

Shoot raw AND jpeg. I assume you have that option on your Canon, my baby Nikon (D5100) has it. That way you have a jpg to work with now, and when you DO finally have software that will handle editing the raw files, you can go back and work with the raw files.