....Um, New guy, been lurking for a bit C&C Please

Skinnifatkid · Sep 28, 2011

Here's a shot I took last week. My wife sent me a phone pic that my daughter pointed out to her of two smoke trails in the morning sky that jets had left that looked like a big "X". This prompted me to start bringing my camera to work in the mornings. The shot is centered and the horizon is in the middle of the picture, my ISO is probably to high, had it set to auto...! I've since been paying more attention to the ISO setting depending on what the subject is and how I want it to look.

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IMG_0640 by Skinnifatkid, on Flickr
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IMG_0638 by Skinnifatkid, on Flickr

I'm self critical once I know I have done something wrong, I try to get it right after it's been pointed out to me. I naturally want to use my camera, especially because it's new, to the fullest of its ability and prove to my wife that it was worth the money.

tevo · Sep 28, 2011

Skinnifatkid said:
Here's a shot I took last week. My wife sent me a phone pic that my daughter pointed out to her of two smoke trails in the morning sky that jets had left that looked like a big "X". This prompted me to start bringing my camera to work in the mornings. The shot is centered and the horizon is in the middle of the picture, my ISO is probably to high, had it set to auto...! I've since been paying more attention to the ISO setting depending on what the subject is and how I want it to look.

1) IMG_0638 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
2) IMG_0640 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I'm self critical once I know I have done something wrong, I try to get it right after it's been pointed out to me. I naturally want to use my camera, especially because it's new, to the fullest of its ability and prove to my wife that it was worth the money.

Sorry for not having the pics up for view and them being links. I need to read that part of the forum.

On Flickr, just click share, copy/paste the BB code to here.

Skinnifatkid · Sep 28, 2011

Thanks, will try to edit these...get them so they can be seen.

Now that I have the pics posted correctly, one more from the same morning. It was more the sun I was trying to capture. I know the roof peak is distracting and would re-do it if it were not for the time issue and having to be at work now that the sun is rising later.

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IMG_0647 by Skinnifatkid, on Flickr

tevo · Sep 28, 2011

Skinnifatkid said:
Thanks, will try to edit these...get them so they can be seen.

should look something like this (brackets removed so you can see the code)

url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/theofficialtevo/6187784498/imghttp://farm7.static.flickr.com/6160/6187784498_5537b5d9eb.jpg/img/url
url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/theofficialtevo/6187784498/Metropolitan/url by url=http://www.flickr.com/people/theofficialtevo/]theofficialtevo/url, on Flickr

patrickdio · Sep 28, 2011

The wider shot is a little better than the other one but the sun on the very edge seems odd. The lighting is nice but I think you now need to work on composition, i.e. the positioning of the objects in your photograph. Find an angle where the sun plays a bigger role in the picture. I really do like the shade of orange from those pictures.

tevo · Sep 28, 2011

They are all a bit underexposed, you should investigate "the exposure triangle". Will clear up a lot in your brain ^^ I say this because too high of an ISO wouldn't underexpose your photos at all.

Skinnifatkid · Sep 28, 2011

patrickdio said:
The wider shot is a little better than the other one but the sun on the very edge seems odd. The lighting is nice but I think you now need to work on composition, i.e. the positioning of the objects in your photograph. Find an angle where the sun plays a bigger role in the picture. I really do like the shade of orange from those pictures.

Thanks, I have started to really try and pay attention to where the subject is and what I am trying to show the viewer when I take my pictures since reading some posts here. These were taken prior to signing up to the forum.

They are all a bit underexposed, you should investigate "the exposure triangle". Will clear up a lot in your brain ^^ I say this because too high of an ISO wouldn't underexpose your photos at all.

Appreciate the feed back. Found a few articles using Google on the triangle. Thanks for the tip.