First Photo Post

ashy2ivy · Jan 5, 2007

Hi There. I'm a newbie. Bribed my 3 yr old to pose for me earlier today with M&Ms. Opinions Welcome!!

LaFoto · Jan 6, 2007

Heya ashy2ivy, welcome to ThePhotoForum!

These are some really wonderful black&whites of your little girl, I am happy for you (and us, mind

) that bribing her into posing for you with M&Ms helped ... now it's just a pity your photos show in all these different sizes. I can go put the missing spaces between each of them but can't do much about their size...

What do you use as your studio and you light?

The_Traveler · Jan 6, 2007

Hello ashy2ivy, welcome to ThePhotoForum!

I suggest that you post your pictures at the largest size allowable here so that.

I would make some suggestions for future pictures:

don't use the on-camera flash - it removes all the nice shadows,
don't use such dark backgrounds for your pictures. - the flash is trying to compensate for the darkness of the background and thus blasting light at the subject.
use a longer focal length - 28mm is way to short.
use a smaller f stop -f8 or so so you get a greater depth of field and a better sweet spot of the lens,
use a lower iso for better detail

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
Image Date: 2007:01:05 11:31:00
Flash Used: Yes (Auto, red eye reduction mode)
Focal Length: 28.0mm
CCD Width: 22.20mm
Exposure Time: 0.017 s (1/60)
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO equiv: 400
White Balance: Auto
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: Portrait Mode

ashy2ivy · Jan 6, 2007

OOPS.. I was resizing in photobucket for another forum and resized the wrong code. Fixed back to the bigger size. Thanks for your input!!

ashy2ivy · Jan 6, 2007

LaFoto said:
Heya ashy2ivy, welcome to ThePhotoForum!

These are some really wonderful black&whites of your little girl, I am happy for you (and us, mind ) that bribing her into posing for you with M&Ms helped ... now it's just a pity your photos show in all these different sizes. I can go put the missing spaces between each of them but can't do much about their size...

What do you use as your studio and you light?

Thanks!! I have a make-shift studio at it's best... lol. Lighting is a large west facing wall with three big windows and the flash which is not the best I know. I'm just starting in this craft and have so so so much to learn!