for the thousands you spent on camera equipment you dont have much to show for it

 

I just don't post up many photos. Mostly just car photos on here.

 

Im so confused with all these settings

 

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i really like the first 2

 

Tried taking photos of the stars last night. They all sucked ass. Something that probably shouldn't be done by Crop Sensor cameras. The Full Frame Sensor cameras can take pics with longer exposures before showing streaks (the movement of the Earth in relation to the stars/planets).

This is the only one that was even close to halfway decent.





Then tried working on my "people" shots. I never seem to like my shots of someone, versus shots of something (buildings, cars, etc). The settings are the hardest thing for me... most of it I'm just playing with to see what has what affect on the photo. These were all with my 50/1.4.







I think part of my problem was not adjusting the WB as I moved around the scene (sun behind me, sun in-front of me, etc). That seemed to throw some of the coloring off a little bit.

 

photos look great

 

not my picture but very telling. This man won the spanish Grand Prix F1 race and carried his little cousin out of a burning building the same day. my new favorite to win the austin F1 race.

 

@ USMCFieldMP - If you leave your WB on auto you'll be fine; maybe a little exposure compensation to help; otherwise the only things wrong with your photos [the coloring looks fine] is that the subject doesn't have the best expression on her face. I can tell she had the sun bothering her from the way she is squinting in one of them. Obviously the sign "Not Available" gives meaning to the shot, perhaps next time have her work a different pose and expression, perhaps leaning against the wall looking down or a rear shot of her leaning against the wall looking over her should, away from the sun.

 

Damn foglights are bright lol

 

Not to sound like a dick, but what does that have to do with photography?

 

its a good picture. do i need to put a cobalt in it for you?

 

I bet you laughed at your own joke for saying that, this is a photography thread, not a pictures of Cobalt thread, this is a thread where you post your own pictures, not some you found on the internet and thought it was cool. I said I wasn't trying to sound like a dick, and you blew it up anyways.

 

Outside I probably could have left the WB on Auto, but what's the fun in that? Exposure compensation was done though. The first shot was at 0, the second at -0.3, and the third at -1. We took a ton of shots both in and out of the sunlight though, and both looking into and away from the sunlight. I didn't like any of the others enough to post them really. As far as the expression on her face, lol... I have a whole slew of "stupid face" pictures. Sunlight or not... it's something she has to work on.

This. It's a great story, but this isn't the thread for it.

 

Been wanting to get a camera for a while now, and I finally got one today. Have no clue what I'm doing It rained all day to day too so I was just shooting random stuff in my house.

 

Step 1: Stop using the stock flash. It's basically worthless and it washes out your shots.



Congrats on the pick up. What did you get?

 

Yeah it took me a while to figure out how to make it stop...just shutting it, who'd of thought. And I just got a D3100 starting off, didn't want anything too fancy seeing as how I'm a beginner.

 

Still learning. Camera is a Nikon D3100

 

Snapped this tonight at a ball game. Camera phone, so lack of quality. I wish I had the Nikon with me.

 

Cleaning up the new, or should I say slightly used, coilovers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dandaman15/7218316062/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dandaman15/7218317378/

 

FB Quality...but oh well

 

I don't know why but that building looks like something that should be in a bat,an photo lol

 

Disagree stock flash can be very useful. But an external one that swivels can produce a hell of a lot better photos

 

Can be, sure. Most of the time, it's not. Certainly not for a beginner.