Canon 450D and a nifty 50. Mostly (C&C welcome)

[mechakev]

Hello,

Trying to learn and improve, here are a few photos.








Comments and such are very appreciated, as are tips!

Thanks,

Kev

(I have a few manual lenses too that I hope to be using more...)

Sigh these pictures worked when I was previewing...

[DigiChromeEd]

[Excalibur]

IMO the first two are very good, the others are also good if they are just snaps for yourself, family or friends. BTW I like the lost dog shot but shame it couldn't be sharper.

[mechakev]

Thank you . And yes, Its all a bit of fun!

[SonicScot]

Welcome
for the record, the 'lost dog shot' is easily my favourite

[mechakev]

I'm quite sad in that I take quite a lot of photos of my puppy lab. She's utterly amazing.
Just started using a 1980s 28mm Olympus MF lens that I got from a car boot sale, its superb! £7.50 well spent.

I quite like the soft focus of the newly named lost dog photo
I'm finding photography to be very satisfying, lots to learn but I feel (and hope) that I am improving.

[eddieitman]

Welcome on board kevin i am glad that you joined up after our chat at work, I do feel guilty for leading you down the slope of manual lenses, I know we discussed editing photos in Photoshop so here is an example of how the photo looks after running just a few tweaks to it
Original

Tweaked



Added Auto Adjust, tiny contrast, shadows pulled out, de-noise and sharpen

[Jon E]

Just beautiful!!!

[mechakev]

Thanks guys and thanks Ed for the Photoshop examples

[ChromaticAberration]

You definitely need to invest some time on post-production for contrast adjustment or some of your photos will just look washed out, it happens to any lens mounted to any camera so don't feel bad about it just correct it when you are comfortably sitting at your computer.

Also, some photos work better on the upright position instead of landscape, #4 is a good example, too much "empty space" to distract that would have been minimized if you had chosen to compose vertically instead of horizontally.

[mechakev]

Yeah, I think I have now realised that I am going to have to spend some time on post shooting, I shall stop being lazy! The before and after shots of the lizard pretty much prove that.

Point taken about shot 4, a portrait shot would also have eliminated the knee poking in from the side...

Funny thing is, the best shots here are the ones taken with the worst lens! (the lizard and bird were took with the kit lens).

I'm going to edit a few and post some later, possibly with some before and after shots.

Thanks,

Kev