First Post - be kind !

[geniusworkin]

Hello people,

hope you're all well,

I been browsing the forum for a fair few months now, finally decided to go out and get myself a camera. Bought myself the 40D due to great value for money after cashback!

Just taken a few quick pictures, any assistance/ critic would be much appreciated!

Edited them using Photoshop Express, quite good.

To check colour reproduction, and definition.

Another, apologies for the socks !

Finally, something I took whilst waiting for the 40D. Just taken with a crappy 3.2M point and shoot.

[Just call me Al]

I can't get the links to work.

[stevegreen]

Unfortunately the HTML tags you are using don't work here

Use the [img] tags instead

edit: you might want to link to larger versions as well, those are mighty small

[geniusworkin]

me neither,

im working at it!

[stevegreen]

Originally Posted by geniusworkin

me neither,

im working at it!

use the following without the *

[img]http://api.photoshop.com/home_dc3b844117a044bbb1e5bd457694bf52/adobe-px-thumbnails/dbfc21b69a0e4369bf567a5ce5c7db71/256.jpg[/img*]

which will show

[geniusworkin]

EDIT: link removed,

[geniusworkin]

ok, slightly big !

[stevegreen]

Holy Huge Pictures Batman .........forum limit is 1280 pixels wide and 300kb for embedded files

Clicky Here

[geniusworkin]

finally updated! all links working and no violations to the T&C's.

Big thanks to Steve for his help.

Tell me what you think,

gw

[TarMoo]

Originally Posted by geniusworkin

Hello people,

hope you're all well,

I been browsing the forum for a fair few months now, finally decided to go out and get myself a camera. Bought myself the 40D due to great value for money after cashback!

Just taken a few quick pictures, any assistance/ critic would be much appreciated!

You have got a great semi-professional camera. What lens do you have?

Next thing is to work out you favourite types of photography. Personally, I like taking portraits and pictures of flowers - so I invested in a dedicated flash (for portraits) and a macro lens for the flowers.

Your picture of the Dandelion could be improved in two ways ...

1. The subject flower is too small - sometimes you can crop a picture to make it better.
2. The background looks better if out of focus which is done by using a wide aperture.

An example from one of my pictures this afternoon ...

[geniusworkin]

Lens wise i have a few - Sigma 28-300, Canon 17-85, Canon 50 'nifty fifty' en route. Im looking for a 10-22 or similar wide angle lens.

Yes, I love macro photography and your picture of the Daffodil looks great. What macro would you recommend ?

Yes, i have taken a few where the background is out of focus. With the dandelion photo, I wanted to capture the definition of the grass blades.

Thanks for the advice,

gw

[TarMoo]

Originally Posted by geniusworkin

Lens wise i have a few - Sigma 28-300, Canon 17-85, Canon 50 'nifty fifty' en route. Im looking for a 10-22 or similar wide angle lens.

Yes, I love macro photography and your picture of the Daffodil looks great. What macro would you recommend ?

Yes, i have taken a few where the background is out of focus. With the dandelion photo, I wanted to capture the definition of the grass blades.

Thanks for the advice,

gw

You certainly have a good selection of lenses. If you are looking for a 10-20 lens then this implies you like to photograph landscape and interiors.

Macro lenses : a lot of people like the Tamron 90 and the Sigma 105. Then there is the Canon MP-E 65mm 1:2.8 which does up to 5x magnification if you really want to shoot tiny objects.

[geniusworkin]

Yes, my intention is to shoot landscape/ architecture so the 10-22 will be my lens of choice.

Macro wise, ill have a look into those lens. The Canon seems good.

thanks,

gw

[geniusworkin]

A few from this morning,

Excuse the photo subjects, we don't have a great range of flowers in London gardens!

An aerial (sort of!) shot of a hedge above my pond.

Another one, I love the definition.

And another.

A bit Christmassy, :-)

gw

[tryingtimes]

I really like the first of this second batch. Very nice composition and I love the fade-to-black and DoF.
Well done.