Proper play with new camera!!
 

Right you 'orrible lot, went out with one of the dogs today and as it was such a nice afternoon, decided to take the D5000 with me for a wee play!

Here's some of the better pics, please feel free to critique them and give me any hints on tips on how to take better shots. No editing done to any.

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0217.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0218.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0220.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0221.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0223.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0235.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0256.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0257.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0195.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/DSC_0196.jpg

Let the slating commence!!

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

I dunno I'd say that was pretty good for a first go with it.

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

The 18-55mm kit lens with the D5000 is very prone to lens flare, great if you want it, not so great if you don't...

If you did want to edit them you could desaturate the colours a bit and sharpen slightly to give the image the cool and crisp feeling you'd expect on a morning like that, but they're fine as is...

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

What's 'lens flare'?

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

they pretty good pic's MBK! ive got a digital SLR ive hardly touched but am really looking forward to getting into :) keep up the good work :)

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

Let me Google that for you...

;)

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

Wasn't using that lens...was using the other one I bought......it's a Nikon as well..

Think I quite like the lens flare though....

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

Nice.

For 'portrait shots', like of the dog, a good thing is to have a non distracting background. The door takes the eye away from the subject. A plain background is good for these type of shots. Another thing to try is to get down to the subjects level so you're looking at the world on their level.

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

Well wolfie me duck, you use technical terms, you explain them. Is that so hard?

Wiki explains 'lens flare' as follows:

'Lens flare is the light scattered in lens systems through generally unwanted image formation mechanisms, such as internal reflection and scattering from material inhomogeneities in the lens.'

Nice plain English explanation, that.

So now I'll look up 'generally unwanted image formation mechanisms'.

I really like 'material inhomogeneities'. I'm storing that one.

Re: Proper play with new camera!!
 

Well done MBK, from the third pic on they just get better and better, really nice, apart from the dog pics though sorry, seriously lovin the spiders web :D:D:D