[matti_killer]

Hi, i'm new here and got a camera since last summer. These are my best pictures so far

[JBB]

Try not to shoot into the sun unless it's sunset or sunrise.

[matti_killer]

i'l remember that :h:

[XyllyX]

I like the dog picture, but it is a bit dark. I also find myself wondering how it would look if you had panned just a bit to the left so as to get more of the dog's right ear. Either that or perhaps crop the shot in closer, cutting the ear out all together and cropping the right edge closer to the dog's nose.

Not a bad portrait shot. The background is a bit distracting. Does the camera have a portrait mode? Those tend to shoot at larger lens openings so as to reduce depth of field and throw the background out of focus. Also...looks like you might have wanted to zoom the lens a bit (which also tends to reduce depth of field). Generally you want to shoot portraits at longer focal lengths so as to avoid the slight distortion of facial features that occurs at shorter focal lengths. In 35mm...a portrait lens is generally considered to be between 70mm to 135mm, with around 100mm being perhaps the ideal. Not sure what those translate to in digital, since digital image sensors are smaller than a 35mm negative. But do you see how her nose seems to be sort of prominent? That is the effect of a shorter focal length. While the flash in this shot isn't too obnoxious, it is a bit harsh. Most portraits you want to try to use a softer light source if possible, or bounce flash. If you are shooting with a built in flash, this is pretty much impossible, though it might be interesting to see what happens if you put some sort of diffusor over the flash, like maybe one or two thicknesses of white paper, or a thin peice of translucent plastic (like the plastic found in bacon packaging, for example and weird as it sounds), another possibility would be a section cut from a styrofoam cup and placed over the flash. Not sure how or if the camera would compensate for having a diffusor over the flash, but with being able to see the results right away, and depending on the camera, you might be able to adjust the exposuer to compensate.

As for shooting into the sun...yes and no. You can break the rules, it is just knowing when and how to do so. What happened in the above shot is your camera's light meter saw all that bright sky and exposed for that, which make the foreground almost black. They have trick filters for doing shots like that, where half the filter is clear and the other half is neutral density (a sort of dark grey) to sort of balance the exposure in situations like the shot above. Tho using such a filter on a point and shoot camera would be difficult at best. The date stamp is distracting.

[matti_killer]

i know the date was a little mistake, i tried some features of the camera and forgot to set it of :s:

the advice is also bit complicated causse i'm a total noob but thanks anyway :w:

[stefcho_94]

nice all of them... no bad comments the guys here covered all...who's that?

[ccbarr]

nice pics matti_killer. I especially like the black and white portrait image. I am a fan of black and white photography. thanks for sharing your pics. :h:

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no bad comments, yet no good ones.