Switzerland 2009

[RichardHealy]

No great art to any of these, I was using an hand held old point and shoot camera.
Tomorrow is my birthday - I'm getting a DSLR - and I'm looking to improve and especially playng with the A,S,P,M settings.

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EDIT: The enter image didn't like the URL's from my blog for some reason, so I changed them to links instead.

[Hayward Taylor]

Hi Richard and welcome .. let me be the first one here to wish you a Happy Birthday .. a dslr for your birthday day eh? .. very nice .. you'll have fun with it .. your two photos here are stunning ... very well compose .. enjoy your day tomorrow and hope to see you around here more often

[harrypalmer044]

Hi Richard and welcome to a great site,
I think you did a cracking job with the camera you had and the images are really nice mate. See your just up the road from me, I look forward to seeing what camera you decide on. If you need any help or advise just let me know. I look forward to seeing more.
Thanks for sharing.,
David

[RichardHealy]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I've been browsing for a while now, but now I'm joining in I'm signing up and making myself known.

The camera I took those on was a Kodak 'Easyshare' CX7330. The composition was the easy part. The Alps are naturally quite pretty to look at. What interesting to me now, is what I might have done differently given how everything is in focus in those shots and the 'forestry' one the exposure seems to me a little off. with a DSLR, I get to try out those instincts.

Tomorrow I'm getting a Cannon EOS 450d (..er.. Rebel - something in The U.S and elsewhere) with an EFS 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6. - when I say 'for my birthday' - I mean I'm part funding it and using some kind relatives to off-set some of the cost.

I'm looking forward to Halloween and getting some good photos of the pumpkins I'll be carving. Between then and now I'll just be practising with the different settings and finding out what I can do with exposure and flash.

*note I got the year wrong in the forum name it was 2008, I took these.