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Some pics from my trip last summer

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darkswordsman17

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Ok, here's some pics from my trip last summer (drove down through Oklahoma and Texas to where I originally lived in Nara Visa, New Mexico). Its a micro sized town of maybe 100 people or so (and in constant decline). The first few are pics of the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial, then there's some from a neighbor's yard, and lastly some sunset/cloud pics.

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Oh, and the poll is to get an idea of how good the pics are (trying to better my skills).
 
Are they overly bright or the colors oversaturated?

They look amazing on my 2405FPW, but the normal desktop doesn't (not currently running video drivers as I only have a crappy PCI card with VGA out only since I'm waiting for my 6800GTs to arrive). This monitor, IMO, needs a little bit of calibrating to look really good, and so I didn't know if since the pics are looking good, but not the normal desktop if they're showing up strange elsewhere.
 
Oh, its was with a Kodak Easyshare something or other (I don't know the exact model). Its the one with a 10x optical zoom, its 4.0Mp. Certainly not the greatest of cameras, and I know that if I'd known more about digital cameras I would have bought something different, but oh well, gotta make mistakes sometimes and learn from them. Sometimes the pics turn out pretty nicely, and other times not so good.

Oh how I wish I could afford a Digital Rebel.
 
They don't seem to have much detail to them. They aren't bad but they lack detail. Some of them are out of focus also. Flower pics need to be shot at extreme closeup with a macro lens IMO. These are slightly out of focus and not overly interesting.

I like the shots with the water and the structure at one end. Those are interesting.

Keep at it! 🙂
 
the pics might be good but i can't tell because after scrolling for 10 minutes i still wasn't at the bottom of the picture, so i can't conclude ...
 
Okay...i'll offer up my brutally honest opinion.

I didn't see a good pic in the bunch. The memorial shots are all dark and oversaturated. The exposures are horrible. I'm not sure if that was from the pic itself or the post-processing.

All of the pics are out of focus, grainy and not sharp at all. I'm not sure if that's the camera, or the post-processing as well. It looks to me like the with the flower pics, you were using a very wide open f-stop which caused most of the picture to be blurry, with a very small focus point. I don't know anything about that Kodak camera, so I can't comment on how to better use it. This is just what i'm seeing. Did you use auto focus for everything?

The EXIF data for the photos would actually help a lot. What kind of shutter speeds were you using? It looks like the flower pics had slower shutter speeds and that would explain the blur. Did you use auto settings for all of the pics? If so, the grain on the flower pics would be explained by your camera adjusting the ISO setting higher to compensate for the low light. If the ISO was over 100, you'll notice grain with most point and shoot cameras.

For the memorial, what time of day were those pics? They look at about high noon with the sun a little bit in your face. That would explain the dark exposure. If you had gone to the other side of the memorial, i'd be interested to see what that would have looked like.

I don't pretend to know more or as much as lot of the photogs here (like Anubis), but these are my honest thoughts on your pics. Keep shooting and try and improve as you go along. Learning about photography is more about snapping some pics and asking for thoughts...if you don't use what you learn, there is no point it taking more pics. Picking up a couple books on photography (doesn't have to be digital) from your local library might not be a bad idea either.

Hope that helps some...🙂
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
Okay...i'll offer up my brutally honest opinion.

I didn't see a good pic in the bunch. The memorial shots are all dark and oversaturated. The exposures are horrible. I'm not sure if that was from the pic itself or the post-processing.

All of the pics are out of focus, grainy and not sharp at all. I'm not sure if that's the camera, or the post-processing as well. It looks to me like the with the flower pics, you were using a very wide open f-stop which caused most of the picture to be blurry, with a very small focus point. I don't know anything about that Kodak camera, so I can't comment on how to better use it. This is just what i'm seeing. Did you use auto focus for everything?

The EXIF data for the photos would actually help a lot. What kind of shutter speeds were you using? It looks like the flower pics had slower shutter speeds and that would explain the blur. Did you use auto settings for all of the pics? If so, the grain on the flower pics would be explained by your camera adjusting the ISO setting higher to compensate for the low light. If the ISO was over 100, you'll notice grain with most point and shoot cameras.

For the memorial, what time of day were those pics? They look at about high noon with the sun a little bit in your face. That would explain the dark exposure. If you had gone to the other side of the memorial, i'd be interested to see what that would have looked like.

I don't pretend to know more or as much as lot of the photogs here (like Anubis), but these are my honest thoughts on your pics. Keep shooting and try and improve as you go along. Learning about photography is more about snapping some pics and asking for thoughts...if you don't use what you learn, there is no point it taking more pics. Picking up a couple books on photography (doesn't have to be digital) from your local library might not be a bad idea either.

Hope that helps some...🙂
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Awesome, was looking for something like that. The camera, plainly put, isn't that great, and I really didn't adjust it at all (doesn't have a lot of options from what I can tell either). I'll put up the originals and let you do a side by side comparison for some of them. Basically, the only post processing I did was to lower the brightness and up the contrast ratio, so the blurriness/out of focus look and other issues are from a mixture of not so great camera and an amateur and not terribly steady handed photographer.

I knew that they definitely weren't anything compared to what a Digital Rebel in the hands of even a mildly experienced photographer would be, but hey gotta start somewhere.

I'm not thinking of going pro as a photog or anything, just wanting to better my skills as thats always a good thing.

Thanks for the pointers.
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
Okay...i'll offer up my brutally honest opinion.

I didn't see a good pic in the bunch. The memorial shots are all dark and oversaturated. The exposures are horrible. I'm not sure if that was from the pic itself or the post-processing.

All of the pics are out of focus, grainy and not sharp at all. I'm not sure if that's the camera, or the post-processing as well. It looks to me like the with the flower pics, you were using a very wide open f-stop which caused most of the picture to be blurry, with a very small focus point. I don't know anything about that Kodak camera, so I can't comment on how to better use it. This is just what i'm seeing. Did you use auto focus for everything?

The EXIF data for the photos would actually help a lot. What kind of shutter speeds were you using? It looks like the flower pics had slower shutter speeds and that would explain the blur. Did you use auto settings for all of the pics? If so, the grain on the flower pics would be explained by your camera adjusting the ISO setting higher to compensate for the low light. If the ISO was over 100, you'll notice grain with most point and shoot cameras.

For the memorial, what time of day were those pics? They look at about high noon with the sun a little bit in your face. That would explain the dark exposure. If you had gone to the other side of the memorial, i'd be interested to see what that would have looked like.

I don't pretend to know more or as much as lot of the photogs here (like Anubis), but these are my honest thoughts on your pics. Keep shooting and try and improve as you go along. Learning about photography is more about snapping some pics and asking for thoughts...if you don't use what you learn, there is no point it taking more pics. Picking up a couple books on photography (doesn't have to be digital) from your local library might not be a bad idea either.

Hope that helps some...🙂
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Good honest review. I was trying not to be overly judgemental in my review but I did notice and point out some of the same things you did. 😉
 
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

I knew that they definitely weren't anything compared to what a Digital Rebel in the hands of even a mildly experienced photographer would be, but hey gotta start somewhere.
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I'm glad you took it as constructive criticism. Remember though...you give a rebel to someone that doesn't know how to use it, and knows nothing about photography, and the pictures aren't going to be better. Address the limitations of your cam, and find things and ways to photograph successfully. If you know it's limitations, then you can adjust.
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

I knew that they definitely weren't anything compared to what a Digital Rebel in the hands of even a mildly experienced photographer would be, but hey gotta start somewhere.
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I'm glad you took it as constructive criticism. Remember though...you give a rebel to someone that doesn't know how to use it, and knows nothing about photography, and the pictures aren't going to be better. Address the limitations of your cam, and find things and ways to photograph successfully. If you know it's limitations, then you can adjust.
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Oh definitely. I was honestly expecting much worse (you know the typical ATOT criticism...), glad that I did recieve helpful critiquing. And yeah, even the best camera in a poor photographer's hands will only return bad results.

 
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