play18now
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2013
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- Location
- Seattle, USA
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So here's the story. I have never had any formal instruction in photography. I just picked up my mom's DSLR one day when I was in high school and put it in manual mode and messed with all the settings until I was taking pictures I liked. That's how I learned. Now I'm a few years and thousands of pictures removed from that first photography experience. I spent last weekend in Mt. Rainier National Park with my camera, and got a couple of good pictures. The one I'm sharing with you today took me 5 minutes or so to get the way I wanted. I tried to capture the what I saw, and I felt that I did an ok job, but the photo itself doesn't have quite as much visual substance as I would like. I'm totally open to any input! Any critiques or suggestions you have would be very much appreciated. I'm just trying to learn a little more about what cameras can and can't do. Does it look too dark, to light, is the white balance off? Tell me what you think. I shoot a Canon 5D Mark 1, with the 24-105 f/4L lens. Shot at 105mm, ISO 640, f/22, 1/5 sec. There are a couple of places (i.e. the top of the rock on the right) where I think it's not as sharp as it should have been (I was holding the camera, no tripod) and obviously putting it on a tripod is the best solution to that, however I don't know if I could have gotten a tripod down into where I was and there wasn't really a good place to set it up. But I digress. Anyways. Thanks to anyone and everyone for anything that say.