I would like to thank the guy who told me to use lightroom lol. That program has brought wonders and my pictures now look that much better than they do raw.

It was nice out so I took some pictures of plants infront of my house. C&C is always welcomed.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3578/...d1bb42bed4.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3537/...5b2e7de207.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3588/...a6a752.jpg?v=0

the first one is too blown out and there is no detail in the ladys face

^^

Try bumping up the recovery to bring back some detail to the highlights

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3575/...3a186f1b7f.jpg

went full recovery. looks a lot better

what about the other two? anything i can do to make them betteR?

when you're adjusting exposure and blacks, press ALT while toggling the bars. For exposure, anything that is over exposed will show up as pure white while pressing ALT. For blacks, You're trying to find "true" blacks so toggle the bar until whatever you think should be black shows up as black while pressing ALT.

That is how to tell if something is properly exposed. Hope that helps!

I usually play around with levels, curves, exposure and saturation in Photoshop and see how it turns out. Everyone will have a different opinion on what looks good (or should look better) to them.

that doesn't work when i press ALT. I'm using lightroom 2 if that changes anything. I'm still new so it's all just a work in progress still.

Hmm not sure if it has anything to do with the version. You have to be in the develop module though

maybe try holding down ALT?

Just freakin' google it...

The Moon last night.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...I/DSC_6159.jpg

I seee trax where the rovers been motorin'

Snowy Afternoon on a March day :(

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/...fcf80aa223.jpg

-ed

Nice one Ed! I didn't get any snow at my place.. it was sunny with no clouds in the air!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/...d211d6.jpg?v=0

just a snap of my arsenal :)

Picked up a 580ex w/ off shoe chord and vivitar 283 this weekend.

heh I'm ordered that wireless flash trigger too, still waiting for them to arrive.

I just switched to a Nikon D90 last week. Here's some pics I took yesterday.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/...ba8622f038.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/...29d7d13678.jpg

Dude, that's me off-roading.

the moon shot is so sharp! Is that w/ the 400mm f/4?

Love the pic of the moon!

Here are a few of my first shot's from my first DSLR. Good old XSi, so far i'm having a blast. I guess time will improve the shots, darks shot's are tough with the built in flash. Yes, I like animals :p
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_CaG1uIEn2E8/Sb...E/IMG_0175.JPG
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_CaG1uIEn2E8/Sb...2/IMG_0252.JPG
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_CaG1uIEn2E8/Sb...2/IMG_0268.JPG
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_CaG1uIEn2E8/Sb...2/IMG_0096.JPG

A couple shots from underground part of the skytrain track
1. - window was dirty -> brown dots
2. - Stupid reflections
Hope next time I won't have neither dirt , nor reflections

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7554/...efdf824coz.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1605/...1236584745.jpg

pretty cool! :)

Here are my cone heads.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/...9a5e323e7b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3559/...0f9d189cc2.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/...8c03276c01.jpg

Cute, reminds me of the cat from Kiki's Delivery Service

Nikon D300 + 400mm f2.8.

Do you put the cones on the kittehs just for the pictures? Because if you do, it makes them extra adorable, and kudos you.