^ what lens are you using? 18-55mm kit lens?

18-200mm F3.5-5.6
and
50mm F1.4 D

with Nikon D40 (6megal pixles FTL LOL）

never got the kit lens.. i bought body only...

Nothing wrong with the 6mp's

@dark: pretty sweet first attempt! A bit too much head room. It makes the subject look taller if you keep headroom to a minimum or even cut off the top of their heads.

also watch where you cut off the bottom. cutting at joints generally isn't appealing.

aside from that, pretty great first portrait!

haha thanks thanks... ya.. will defn keep that in mind for the future...

I tend to agree with you, they are over saturated.
Like J said, dont cut off at joints, knee caps, elbows etc. Also don't cut off the fingers, or else cut at the forearm.
Try to keep the heads "relatively" close together, watching to trees "growing" out of peoples heads

Megapixels mean nothing. Check out this portrait shoot done with an iPhone..:


http://fstoppers.com/iphone

Not at all bad for a first time. I agree with the others about cut off limbs, too. I also would not have included the above shot, as it's not a very flattering shot of her with the furrowed brow. The images are a little oversaturated and a bit on the soft side. Are you processing on a CRT?

Yeah, for web, the iPhone 3Gs or 4 is fine. There's a Vancouver editorial photographer who has been experimenting with iPhone shots for about 2 years now. With 5MP, you can get a decent 8x10 print.

They're totally different animals. The D3x is more suited for studio shooting, and the 1DmkIV (or Nikon D3s) is better for sports, wildlife action shooting. If I'm just doing street photography, I'd pick the D3x over the 5DmkII, 1DmkIV or 1DsmkIII just because the new Nikon wide aperture primes (24G, 35G, 85G) destroy their Canon equivalents and the D3x's image quality can't be touched up to 400 ISO. If I'm heading out to shoot sports or wildlife, then the 1DmkIV would be my first choice because of the 1.3x crop, 16MP and 10fps.

Lately, I've been spoiled with shooting medium format digital, and even the current lowest end medium format digital back will utterly annihilate the image quality of the best 35mm based DSLR, so MF would be my choice for cityscape, landscape or studio work.

hahah i see i see

thanks for all the great feed back guys.. keep them coming...

the only real complaint that i have for my D40 is its ability to produce noise even at relative low ISOs, and lack ot master remote control for off camera flashes...

I dunno.. I am desperately trying to get myself out of the HDR/over saturated look for my photos.. and having a nikon on a cloudy day defn didnt help

I know i am doing something VERY WRONG.. since i do want the images to POP, but not just over saturation/vibrance etc etc.. any tips on further editin techniques?

Use Lightroom3 - the noise reduction algorithms are currently the best out there.

Why would using a Nikon camera be bad on a cloudy day?

What are you using to process your images? Is your monitor a CRT or LCD, and what is its colour gamut? It is calibrated? What colourspace are you shooting? Have you made a custom camera colour profile to get accurate colours (assuming you have a monitor that's calibrated)? I'm going to assume your answer is going to be "no" or "I don't know" for most of my preceding questions, especially the last one, as not too many people do it. There are so many variables in the digital image processing world that one needs an overall view of your methods to even start to help you out. The main big thing you need to do if you haven't already done it is to colour calibrate your monitor, and get a decent monitor.

thx senna for the great info!
i see i see... and yes the answer to most of your questions are a NO haha...

i do have light room installed, but I havnt gotten around to learn how to use it FML =.=
the statement abt nikon + cloudy day was from some forum that i read awhile back when i first started, for some reason I always believed that
Nikon = landscape
Canon = portrait

I use PS CS5 to process my images, granted I am a noob =.= so umm ya LOL...nth fancy is used
I am using a laptop, so it would be a 2005 LCD screen (which is hella old, Asus W7J)
color gamut= i have no idea, i know OF it, but thats pretty much it
Nope, pretty sure its not calibrated, since the images look diff from my desktop, to my laptop, to PS3 on my TV
color space, isnt that the same as gamut, or i am missing something here orz
no, defn have not made a custom camera profile (honest I dun even know where to start to make one, I just have a homemade white card/grey card LOL which i am sure it is NOT what you are talking about)

K, time to google how to color calibrate monitor to start I assume.. =P thanks thanks

^ Where's that?

manning park

season still going @ Manning or is that old?

nvm, checked exif - Original Date/Time = 2011:03:05 11:38:15

too much saturation, less is more! details are blown out

most defn...
but that what I was trying to do...
she wanted it like that LOL =.=

here here lemme redeem myself,
this was the original that i sent her for approval LOL

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3921/00801m.jpg

My first time posting my pictures on the interwebs for critique :

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1448940_n.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2404256_n.jpg

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...97_64283_n.jpg

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7342877_n.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2124442_n.jpg

All pictures were shot with a Canon 20D with a Canon 50mm F1/4 lens. Very minimal 'touch-ups' were done in Lightroom. The last image was shot with a 5Dm2 with the same 50mm lens.

*flame-away*

First time posting in this thread! Started getting into photography a year ago. I'm currently traveling in Europe, all of these are taken in Paris. All shot with a Nikon D3000 and 35mm 1.8. Enjoy and critique!

Shot a close friends engagement.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/...884b78ae_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2505/...8cb8bd62_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3307/...6db281c1_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2629/...54e0520f_o.jpg

kknater: I like the subway one!

Colin: not sure if I like the processing with the 3rd photo. makes them look...walking deadish =D. My favorite one is the first photo. I likes teh bokeh

^ Like the feedback. I choose that because I felt the full colour one had too many dark spots

Better?

http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...g/IMG_8862.jpg

yeah much better, the colors in their clothing are vibrant, and they look more flattering as live people =D