First pictures with the 350D

All criticism welcome.

These are the first pictures I've ever taken, so hopefully I'll get
better. I was so exited to play with the 350D, I totally forgot to use the
focus points :-( And I need to get myself a a mono/tri-pod asap.

Sorry, I don't know how to upload the exif data on pbase. Man, the more I
look at the photos, the worse they look to me.

http://www.pbase.com/slack/inbox

 

Wait till you start making adjustments, then you can really make them
ugly <grin>. I like this one best because of the composition:
http://www.pbase.com/slack/image/41136207
What lens are you using?

 

I'm still a beginner so no criticism here. One suggestion regarding focus
points is to lock in the center focus point for awhile, focus using it, lock
focus, then recompose. When I was excited when I first got my 300D I wasn't
paying attention to which focus points were locking in, when using only the
center one it forced me to pay attention to what I was focusing on.

Here's my bird shot of the week, from XC skiing at Mammoth 1 1/2 weeks ago:

http://homepage.mac.com/getosx/mammoth/birdie2.jpg

That's with the old camera, the 300D with the Canon EF 35 mm f/2, shot at
f8.

Greg

 

* focus
* tripod
* avoid shooting 'down' towards subjects
* avoid shots of animals from behind (unless they're heads are turned
all the way back
* better animal shots usually include an eye, preferably with a glint of
sublight or flash in them.


Cheers,
Alan.

 

EVER, or just with the new camera?

Don't cheap-out in the tripod area, either.

On the other hand, don't go HOG WILD like I did when I bought my tripod YEARS
ago: It's really too bulky and heavy to haul around a lot, but it still goes
everywhere I do. (Bogen 3040 = good exercise!)

Aw, don't be so hard on yourself. Some are pretty good and none are truly
bad. I particularly like the one where you caught the bird with its beak
inside the oyster. That's a rare shot.

A good rule-of-thumb is to get down on (or up to) the level of your subject as
much as possible.

I admire your self-confidence that you not only put your stuff on-line so
quickly, but you invited others to critique your work.

Keep shooting and have fun!


JR

 

Yeah, ever. Also, the first camera I've ever owned... I'm a slow starter
39 years old and been wanting to do this since Jr. High.

Thank you very much.

 

* focus

Killer, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

 

Just Canon's EF 75-300, 4-5.6

I know it's a cheap lens, but it was all I could afford. Once I learn the
basics of picture taking and get more familiar with the camera, I'll be
more apt to buy a really nice, fast telephoto.

 

I'm still a beginner so no criticism here. One suggestion regarding

Not bad.

 

I should clarify. It's not like I've never held someone else's camera and
took pictures of them. Also, I have used our POS camera at work, but these
are the first pictures I've taken just purely for enjoyment purposes only.

 

I have not seen a bad lens yet that canon puts out. Your photo's are pretty
good. A little more depth of field will help and a little adjustment for
the overexposure and your there. any white object is hard to take a good
photo of without getting it over exposed.

Use the viewer on the camera to see how they come out when you take them
and you'll be taking better ones in no time. I think the 350 show a
histogram in review mode, always keep the peak of the curve to the left or
centered and you'll avoid overexposing. you can always adjust underexposure
in the computer.

 

The 24-70L is *terrible* ... that is to say, I can't afford it ... ;-)

 

Why so much cromatic abberration on the photos?
I mean purple friging.

 

pretty good for a first time.

note: if your going to shoot alot of water your going to wanna get a
good polorizing filter. you can do a google on it's uses.

cheers n happy photos
kat

 

EXIF data is embedded in JPGs. If it's there, Pbase should extract and
display it. If you edited the files before uploading using a program
that doesn't properly support EXIF, the data may have been removed.

 

Thanks for the reminder... I forgot about the that filter.