Photographers: Please rate my photos

[Pennstate]

http://www.photo.net/photodb/member-photos?include=all&user_id=958207

Thanks in advance.

These 3 came off of my FIRST roll of film using a manual camera.

They are from the St. Patrick's Day parade in NYC last month.

 

[sd]

look pretty good. I can picture them in a mag.

 

[MBony]

I enjoyed them, especially the first 2.

 

[OffTopic1]

It look like your exposure is 1/2 stop under in every shot. Take the camera in for a meter check & repair or always shoot with +1/2 over mettering to compensate.

PS. What shutter speed, fstop, film, and what iso are you using?

 

[Pennstate]

Well, it was shot with a Nikon FG that I got off of Ebay for $60. I think it will not be worth it to get it calibrate it. There is exposure copensation on the camera from -2 to +2 in 1/2 steps. I'll shoot the next roll using +1/2 setting. I also just got a FM2n but haven't shot a roll yet.

For those photos, I was using iso 400 Fuji Superia (??) film with the smallest fstop (largest aperature) setting possible.