First Crack at the bucket

[JAS_Photo]

Bromics, this forum is a great place to learn! And there are references to other sources here as well . One thing you can do if you find that your pictures are too bright is underepose them a bit. Some scenes will make you light sensors go crazy and they overcompensate. If you are using aperture priority, you can just dial in a bit of underexposure. Or you can bracket your shots. You should be able to set up your camera to automatically bracket three or more shots under or over. As you get more practice you will get a better handle on exposure.

Jay Maisel, (one of my photographic heroes) tells a story of how a fellow was told by a photography guru type how to find the perfect exposure everytime. "Just do what I tell you and you will get the perfect exposure everytime," the the guru says to him.

"So I just follow this procedure and you quarantee perfect exposure everytime?" The fellow queried.

"Of course!" Says the guru type, "That and bracket the SH** out of them!"

[BroMiCs]

You should be able to set up your camera to automatically bracket three or more shots under or over. As you get more practice you will get a better handle on exposure.

Yes I had noticed this when I was fooling around with a few of the settins on the camera. I orderd David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography. I am pretty excited for its arival. Should be here today or soon.

I am glad I found this forum. I have been looking for a place to show ppl some photo's I have taken. Not just familly and friends. Ppl who have some experiance.. Not sure If I have anything good enough for a critique yet though... Most of the pix I have taken are pretty cool, but lack something... I can't explain it... I wonder if I am just expecting to get profesional photo's from a entry level camera or if it really is mostly how you take the photo.
I have seen some pretty good pix from this camera so I am hoping its the latter of the two.

Aside from the brightness of the photo's my biggest dissapointment is dullness of color. I know I can PS them but I would have expected a little bit more richness in the originals....

[Richard]

Hi Bromics,

One thing you could do is do a search on flickr for the 550D, although this might not show exactly what come out of the camera with out processing, it will show you what your camera's capable of.

You can download 'canon picture styles' which might help boost your vibrance levels.

http://www.canon.co.uk/Support/Syste...4&SearchType=3

From what I've hear the 550 is a very nice piece of kit and I'm a little green eyed.

btw... nice job with the bee, love that shot!!!

[BroMiCs]

Thanks Richard,
Yea I guess I will have to take a look at the settings...

Everyone seems to like that bee shot...
I am entering a photo contest and am not sure what photo to use....

this is the other one

http://www.photography.ca/Forums/f20...ing-11092.html

I might throw them both up in the critique area and see what everyone else thinks...

[Mad Aussie]

Not sure If I have anything good enough for a critique yet though... Most of the pix I have taken are pretty cool, but lack something... I can't explain it...

Those are the photos best suited to Critique mate!
We don't want to see awesome photos in the critiques section, what would be the point? Throw yours up and what you can't explain ... we will

Occasionally a really good photo or two do get in here for comparison reasons or perhaps we want to see if the processing we used is accepted by others, but mostly it's great for those unsure.

[BroMiCs]

Those are the photos best suited to Critique mate!

Yea yea I know... I guess you are right.

I guess I am my biggest cridic. I have seen so many amazing pix, I just makes my stuff seem so much more amature... (which it is....lol)

I am a perfectionist. Gets me upset when my ability is lower than my standards...

[Mad Aussie]

Even the better photographers were only average at one time. Walk before you run mate