mcrow5's real life photos - Hopetoun Falls

got myself a canon 550d, only got a small chance to go out today, crappy melbourne weather. it was sunny for about 30 mins, and these 2 where the best i got. C&C would be much appreciated.






im still learning all the settings, and how it all works. its nothing like taking photos in forza thats for sure.

thats good as

and its only my back yard haha!! catn wait till the weather clears up and i can go into the mountains!!

yeh weather has been shocking my backyard's under water

more!! big improvement on the blurry ones from yesterday i reckon.

did a quick edit of a shot i took tonight, its pretty dodgy though.

I hope you live near a beach mcrow, whats the zoom like on your camera?

no where near a beach mate haha, the closest one is over an hour away and on a good day, its always full. not the best place to take photos haha!

ah zoom, ive got 2 lenses, 18-55mm and 55-250mm. so anywhere in between that.

Great start mcrow!

I bought a Canon 500D with the same kit lenses as yours about a year ago and it has been good fun learning the camera (still learning actually) and getting some excellent results. They certainly are a great camera.

Good luck and keep us updated with your pics as you progress.

yeah i will Seano, im hoping the weather holds up on the weekend so i can go up in the mountains and get some more photos. need a bigger memory card though, 4gb isnt enough haha!

went out into the garden again yesterday.

Some nice shots mate.
Watch your depth of field - Sometimes it's cool to go as short as you can with good effect (that first one in the above three), but then sometimes you lose details or find it hard to get focus right (the second one).
My favourite is that one of your one of the sunset in your backyard. Really good mix of colours and texture.
Previous Canons (not sure about the 550) are known to sometimes look a bit soft. Use the Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp mask to add a bit of detail.
Oh, and if you don't already, get some polarizing filters. They are the shizzle.

That reminds me - shoot in RAW if you can. Means you can adjust the white balance and everything else in photoshop. Clearer photos too.


Chris (OD)

Might have to drag my EOS out, been a while since I have used it. Mainly got it because of the fast series shot mode. I have not taken many still shots with it.

One picture i took at Muscle car masters in 2008

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2864517393_80703aed51_b.jpg

cool McRow. got yourself a redbubble portfolio yet?
http://www.redbubble.com/people/scotland67 is mine....

nah not yet Scotland, i havnt really had a chance to go out and shoot anything except my backyard haha. mind you, i did go out on saturday going through the 500 odd photos i took haha! gonna take ages!!!!!

Nice work guys!
maybe a real camera photo comp is required too!

If i take any pictures of anything other than babies or quad bikes i'll let yas know haha

Ya gunna need lots of hard drive space, and lots of time to sort the shit from the clay so to speak. its hard to get rid of pictures you take too..but ya got to be brutal sometimes. i got gigs and gigs of stuff to sort out lol

damn straight you need hdd space, 500 RAW photos is 12gb!! and that was only one day. i managed to sort through them all and got 50 good ones i liked. ill sort through them tonight, do some PP on them and post them. its a surprise where i went though!

Cool, look forward to seeing them!