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Progress after about ten months with the D90. (Ten pics)

ks0385

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Sorry about the lack of variety in subjects...

Please let me know what you think. You can check out my other posts to see what I've posted before. Been a while.
 
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I'm new to SLR photography, but here's my observations... I like 1, the first 6, and 7, they have good color. 3 is a fun shot, cool angle. 2 looks grainy, high ISO/slow lens maybe? The 1st 6 is cool, but the hair tends to become a black space making it diffifult to differentiate the black sweatshirt from dark hair (on my monitor).
 
Thanks for the replies. And sorry about the numbering error, fixed now.
 
Anymore C&C? :(
 
I think you've been shooting in consistently boring lighting conditions,and also underexposing a bit. The dark tones in your images seem to "block up" very quickly, showing no detail, and you do not seem to have many images where there are what I would call "highlights". It is hard to tell exactly what is going on, but it looks almost like you've been photographing with the camera's settings tweaked fairly substantially toward a "Vivid" look, and/or that your pictures are not being post-processed quite properly,so as to pull out the maximum range of tonal values and tonal variety. Your shots, like the girl jumping on the roof, shot #6--the sunny day feeling does not quite come through right. Or the shots of her seen against the light in frames 7 and 8---the darker tonal values, where she herself is, lack "luminance"...there just is not much liveliness in the lower tones...the images themselves are of a vbibrant, attractive young woman, and maybe you're being fooled by her persona, but the photographic renderings you're showing make me think that your images need a different type of adjustment at the computer, to bring out a more "luminous" quality to the lighting.

There are soooooo many ways to process digital images,and I think your approach needs to be assisted by a skilled photoshop instructor who can show you how to get more out of the files.
 
Thank you very much for the response Derrel. To be honest, I don't do anything to post process my pictures. No cropping or messing with the exposure settings. Do you think you could pick on of the pics and show me what you mean?

I guess I haven't focused on the lighting at all when I take pictures.

How is the composition of the pictures?
 
Here are three VERY quick examples of different ways to approach three of the images. Had I been working from a Nikon .NEF file, it would have been easy and quick to do better work.

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Hmmm I see. Should I start shooting in RAW if I want to get into post processing my photos?

Thank you again.
 
YES, shooting in raw is the best way to ensure that you have the best possible file for post processing work. The Nikon .NEF file, the compressed one form the D90, is a good file type. You can ALSO choose to shoot RAW + JPEG (my preference is that) so that you have an already made JPEG image that can be used for archiving/editing/workflow purposes. One of the single most important things to do is to get the black point set on a NEF file; it used to be the very first workflow step Nikon suggested with its Nikon Capture software. The blacks in your pictures above are a bit too dark...I used the Shadow/Highlight tool to help bring out more detail in the blacks and lower-tone values, but using a JPEG as the beginning point for that is not as good as having a .NEF file to work from. In answer to your question about your composition skills, I would say you are doing "okay", but that some studying of composition would help you. Some of the above shots have poor composition, like numbers 3,4,and 8, which look pretty snapshot-ish. Keep at it though--10 months is hardly any length of time!
 
Alrighty thanks again. I will look into a book on composition.
 
I would also like to know what you did to achieve this.
 

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