i would love people thoughts on these photos :)

[KaO12343]

these where taken today with my nikon D5100 i got it 3 days ago and im lovving it!

 

[DanielLewis76]

I am new to photography as well (have been doing it 'properly' for a few months) so i am not overly qualified to comment. I do live the shoots, the tree shadows look great and a nice subject matter.

However for what its worth..

1) I would have taken this slightly further away to make a bit more of a feature of the tree as it sort of just sits there at the side of the photo.
2) One thing I have spent a fair bit of time playing with is depth of field via adjusting the aperture of the lens. For this photo I would have lowered the f stop of the lens and taken it a bit further away. I would also have set a higher shutter speed to reduce the slight blur on the front hand. All this comes at an the expense of having to use a higher ISO setting but as there seems to be a fair bit of light outdoors it should be fine.
3) This is my favourite one! However it looks slightly under exposed (could fix with post processing) however a lower f stop value would have both corrected the exposure and produced a nice bokeh (blur effect) of the grass and tree shadows.

 

[texkam]

Learn about using fill flash and/or bouncing light using a reflector.

 

[radiorickm]

For 3 days in, these aren't to bad. But since you asked, here are some thoughts...

The lighting is uneven on the kids face. Although not a great amount in these, it can cause problems in the future. There are several things you can learn to do to fix this. 1. Place the kid in an area where the "shade" is consistent. 2. Use a reflector to fill in the dark areas and even out the lighting level. 3. Let the fill flash work and fill in the shadows, even up the lighting that way.

The background can get kind of distracting also. The other poster talks about adjusting you f-stop. Shooting at 35mm, you are going to get a lot of stuff in focus. A lot of portraits are taken with the background out of focus, only the subject in focus. So how to do that? Use a longer focal length, keep the subject a fair distance from the background, and use a large aperture.

These are all things you can begin learning about. Enjoy the new camera and keep shooting.

 

[KmH]

Dappled sunlight (#1 and #2) usually produces less than pleasing images. Open shade works better.

In #3 the boy is badly underexposed because of the back lighting. Center-weighted or Spot metering mode, fill flash or some other kind of supplemental lighting, like from a reflector would have helped.

Understanding Camera Metering and Exposure
Camera Exposure: Aperture, ISO & Shutter Speed
Sharpening & Detail

• Understanding Sharpness
• Guide to Image Sharpening
• Sharpening Using the "Unsharp Mask" Tool
• Using Local Contrast Enhancement

Tones & Contrast

• Understanding Histograms, Part 1: Tones & Contrast
• Understanding Histograms, Part 2: Luminosity & Color

Making the Most of Natural Light in Photography
Composition: Using the Rule of Thirds

Photographic Lighting stuff:
Light Science and Magic, Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
Strobist: Lighting 101
http://neilvn.com/tangents/flash-pho...hy-techniques/