Hello everyone. I am 21 years old and brand new to this beautiful hobby. Some of you might recall giving me advice in a post about purchasing this camera a couple of months ago, well, I finally bought my first lens, and went out and took some pictures this weekend. Let me start off by first saying that this is a very big deal for me. I've NEVER even held a professional camera, and when I finally saw this professional camera in use by someone at a relative's job, I knew that I wanted to get into photography. So I saved up and went for the gold and purchased this camera as my first professional camera, along with the 50MM 1.4 lens.
I know I definitely need improvement. I'm not posting these to show off, I'm simply posting them to receive criticism and wisdom about what I should do differently, learn from it, and hopefully become as good as some of you on this forum some day. All of the pictures you see here were taken in full-auto mode, just so I could get some practice. I know that I have a natural eye for this, all I really need to get down is the technical and scientific theory behind it. I do not know what the difference is between white balance, exposure, aperture, ISO or saturation, but I am on here to learn. I know that most of you would respond by saying "read some tutorials", or something similar, but just bare with me here, as I am a quick learner. If some of you could explain more in-depth, and "idiot-friendly", I'd be very appreciative, as you're time is invaluable to me. Like I said, I learn very fast, but I sometimes need that extra guidance from more experienced individuals to guide me in the right direction with the correct information. With all that out of the way, let me show you some of the photos I took recently. I'm unable to figure out how to size these down, so I'm going to post the links instead, so you'll have to open up each one individually in a new window:
1:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0094.jpg
2:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0097.jpg
3:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0098-1.jpg
4:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0105.jpg
5:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0114.jpg
6:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0116.jpg
7:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0119.jpg
8:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0120.jpg
9:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0124.jpg
10:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0125.jpg
11:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0126.jpg
12:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0129.jpg
13:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0132.jpg
I know I definitely need improvement. I'm not posting these to show off, I'm simply posting them to receive criticism and wisdom about what I should do differently, learn from it, and hopefully become as good as some of you on this forum some day. All of the pictures you see here were taken in full-auto mode, just so I could get some practice. I know that I have a natural eye for this, all I really need to get down is the technical and scientific theory behind it. I do not know what the difference is between white balance, exposure, aperture, ISO or saturation, but I am on here to learn. I know that most of you would respond by saying "read some tutorials", or something similar, but just bare with me here, as I am a quick learner. If some of you could explain more in-depth, and "idiot-friendly", I'd be very appreciative, as you're time is invaluable to me. Like I said, I learn very fast, but I sometimes need that extra guidance from more experienced individuals to guide me in the right direction with the correct information. With all that out of the way, let me show you some of the photos I took recently. I'm unable to figure out how to size these down, so I'm going to post the links instead, so you'll have to open up each one individually in a new window:
1:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0094.jpg
2:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0097.jpg
3:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0098-1.jpg
4:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0105.jpg
5:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0114.jpg
6:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0116.jpg
7:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0119.jpg
8:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0120.jpg
9:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0124.jpg
10:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0125.jpg
11:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0126.jpg
12:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0129.jpg
13:
http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w451/smriddler/IMG_0132.jpg