Crituqe Please - New to The DSLR World

[cmburgess]

Hi.

Im Chris, new to the forums, a work college told me about DPS and he said it would be a good place to see what other people think of my photographs, as im new to the DSLR, moved up from Bridge models.

attached is a photograph it took on January 28th 2012 - open to to feed back, im willing to learn. and develop my skills

Regards
Chris

[ridley19]

Hey Chris...
I think considering you used Landscape Mode, this has turned out pretty good. However, you might find these auto modes to be limiting and a bit of hit and miss with the results you get. So now that you've moved up to DSLR, experiment with taking this in Av mode where you can manually set shutter speed, and Aperture will be set auto. For manual setting of both, try Manual mode.

Back to critiquing the photo though, i think if you were to stick to the rule of thirds and bring the train further down toward the bottom, you'd then have more of that great sky/clouds to be able to dramatise. I think that would make the photo have a bit more punch to it. As the sky is a lot more attractive than the brown grass. Also i would have recomposed by moving further back along the tracks and waited for the last carriage to clear the tree (assuming there weren't 500 carriages). :-)

In summary i like it...Stick with it, practice makes pro.

[RobSPhotoNut]

Personally I like it. I agree with the suggestion about moving farther down the tracks to get the end car if possible. What settings did you use? The only other thing I could see is the focus looked a little soft. Hm, maybe the train moved?http://digital-photography-school.co...es/biggrin.gif Maybe when I enlarged the picture though. I still liked it.....

[windrider86]

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[crockny]

I would crop a lot of the dried grass at the bottom and some off the left and then play with levels in PS if you have it ... it's a good start!