New to photography

[eaglesishy]

I'm brand new to photography, but very recently I was given a hand-me-down D70 (that works really nicely for a five-year-old piece of electronics) and have gotten interested in playing around with it. If anyone would be willing to look at some of my photos and give me suggestions, it would be very much appreciated.

Thank you for your time!

 

[Breaux]

I'd say you have a pretty good eye for composition and unusual angles. I would suggest that when you do photos of repeating patterns or textures, if possible, you might include some contrasting item as a relief from the pattern. (Image the fountain tiles photo with one goldfish added, for example)

Also, since you say you're new to photography, I recommend learning about shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, if you haven't already. It's not hard to understand, and there are many good tutorials out there. With modern DSLRs, it's can be too easy to let the camera do the thinking. If you understand these 3 things, you are in charge of your photography; if not, you're camera is in charge!

 

[eaglesishy]

The D70 was Dad's camera before mine, and he taught me about aperture and the rest, but thanks for the suggestion

Great tip about the patterns, thanks!

 

[Lambo77]

Ok, first suggestion, post few pics at once, trying to C&C by constantly scrolling up is hard, and also number your pics, so I can use that when C&C'ing. With that said, I like the Comp of number 2, but you foreground is too dark, your camera is trying to get an "overall" exposure and thus due to the light sky, underexposed your real subject. Also like the one with the red cabs, but you need to level your horizon line, the buildings are all leaning to the right. Good first efforts. Welcome to photography!

 

[Texas Aggie]

2 and 8 would look pretty cool with some cross processing effect or something. :thumbup:

 

[thierry]

too many pics makes me not even want to C&C.. try less next time

 

[eaglesishy]

Thanks for the tip, Lambo77. I'd assume it's more polite to post many smaller threads (not all at once) than keep one or two larger threads in this forum, then?

I didn't really have time to make sure my horizon was level in that photo, unfortunately - I was walking across the street too. I'll try to be more careful of that in the future, though.

 

[chammer]

There is dust on your sensor which can be seen in pictures #2, 4, 15, and 16. If you're not sure what I am talking about, set the camera to aperture priority mode and the aperture to f/16. Now go outside and take a picture of the bright blue sky (one with no or very little clouds). Once you download the picture the dust should be quite obvious.

In regards to the horizon, obviously it's best to do as much as you can while taking the picture, but stuff like this is easy enough to fix in post.