My first sharing of Photos

[SezzySue]

I am not asking for anything specific, just some feedback please. I am still very new at this.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b249/SezzySue/IMG_1843.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b249/SezzySue/Beachsunonwater.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b249/SezzySue/Sunonbeach.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b249/SezzySue/WolfBay.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b249/SezzySue/RoryCloseUp.jpg

[R Hardman]

Off all the images the last one I like the best. The eyes are hard to get right and making it black and white reduced the red-eye. Reduce the ISO to get rid of the noise and avoid shooting into the sun to get rid of the lens flare in your next set of photos.

[Ricko of Fla]

The first one is not real clear. I see you like to shoot B & W. Here is a site for only Black & white www.digital-monochrome.com. good luck in your shooting.

[saravrose]

they need to be Resized ...I like the third I would almost clone out the boats in the background and keep it simple, and the fourth is great with the exception of the black object stuck to the right. Good job, keep them coming.

[Mike Bell]

When posting please try to keep to this forum's convention of resizing down to 800 pixels maximum on the longest side.

I would agree that if you lose the boats in the beach scenes and crop the right of the trees one they improve in composition terms. I love the last one though - eyes in perfect focus.

[Robert_Lay]

#1 - Having the leash going right out of the frame is not good. Otherwise, nice picture.

#2 - Sky is mottled. Not terribly intersting. The foggy blobs in the sky from the sun are probably some form of lens flare. You have to get lucky and have a knockout picture to survive a sun in your face.

#3 - Would be better if the object intruding into the frame from the right were not there. Bald, uninteresting sky. Not much of interest in the picture.

#4 -Pretty good picture of the dog. There may be a focus problem. I can't decide just where the plane of focus is.

Here are my suggestions for sizing images for posting in Critique Corner:
Size your image to not larger than 800 pixels in either direction (that's the guideline max.).
In Photoshop use Image->Image Size and enable Resampling (this will downsample your larger image to the new smaller size by throwing away some of the information, so save this smaller version under a different name from your original or you may lose your original).

Do not be confused by the dimensions in inches or the DPI value - those are irrelevant. The size of the image on a monitor depends only on the screen resolution of that monitor and the number of pixels in your image. For example, most monitors are set for screen resolution of 70 to 100 pixels per inch. That means that an 800 pixel image dimension will actually be from 8" to 11" on the monitor.

In order to stay under the 100kB limit on file size, use JPG compression quality low enough to get under 100kB by watching the file size change as you adjust the quality slider. It may be a little in error, so stay under 90 kB to be safe.

If the file size limit poses problems, you may want to host on another site and place a link to the image hosted elsewhere, but the 800 pixel maximum still applies.

A related issue is the EXIF data. In order to be sure that your EXIF data is available for the critique, do NOT use File->Save for Web. That process removes the EXIF data from the file. Following my suggestions above preserve the EXIF data in the file.

[SezzySue]

Sorry about the sizes everyone. I really appreciate all the feedback. As far as my dog goes, she is so hard to catch on the camera. As soon as she sees it she stops what she is doing because she thinks she is doing something bad. My other dog is solid jet black and I can't figure out how to capture her and make her stand out. Any picture that she is in with a flash make her look horrible and alone she is a blob. thanks

[Robert_Lay]

The answer to the black dog problem is diffuse light.

Harsh light hides the detail of the shadows. A very diffuse light is necessary. You might try an extremely overcast day (no shadows visible anywhere) with a neutral gray background (that wil be a challenge).