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yzaddict106 · Dec 3, 2006

Hello,

I'm new to this site and somewhat new to photography. I have done Cinematography for many years, focusing mainly on motocross, and a buddy of mine had a Canon Rebel and let me take a few shots with it. I was hooked! Took me a while, but i finally was able to purchase a camera, the Canon Rebel XTi. Man i love that thing, and ive only had it a few days! Anyways, i went over to Borders Books and bought a few books on mastering photography, and ive been playing around with Shutter speed and ISO, and i just wanted you guys to check out these pictures and tell me what you think.

These pictures were taken this morning at a local park that sits over a creek, with the highway on the other side. My friend Rick was there and i snapped these shots of him looking out over the creek.

1zero6 Productions was the name i used for all my films, but i've realized you guys, as well as a lot of other members of other forums, don't put logo's in your pictures, so I'm thinking about droping that.

Any comments are appreciated

DJ

LaFoto · Dec 3, 2006

Heya DJ and welcome to ThePhotoForum.
Nice to be meeting you and your photos ... and I so understand why you got hooked so easily ... isn't photography a most wonderful pasttime? I think it is.

I am glad you say you mean to drop the large watermarks on your pics that you mean to show us here in the galleries from now on, for I was about to say in my reply how distracting I find those and really pulling from the actual photo. (I much doubt anyone who feels like stealing a pic can do much with a 800x533px sized pic ...)

You got yourself a nice bokeh in your second photo here. The first is a bit on the dark side, though you did shoot it at a high ISO, didn't you, since it was still a bit dark outside? Are you deadset against using any post processing software? Else there might be a little chance of still brightening up that first pic ... but it will become even noisier then - that would be a good call for NeatImage then to see how much noise can be reduced again in that last step.

yzaddict106 · Dec 3, 2006

I actually have photoshop, but didnt realize it was a common thing to use to touch up your pictures. By the time i figured that out, i already had the watermarks on the photos, and saved like that, so it was hard to do any touch up. When touching up pictures in photoshop i usually use the hue/saturation tool as well as the brightness/contrast tool. Those seem to work well for touch-ups, but i havent really expiremented with anything else. I did shoot in High ISO, but I'm still trying to get a good handle on how everything works. Thanks for the feedback!

DJ