1 of my very 1st pictures

[RiKaN HaVoK]

You can C&C the picture ..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/3177028147_bcea581c6e_o.jpg

Just wanted to know how the exposure came out .. not under/over? It was about a month ago when I 1st got the camera and I found it just now ..

Just want to know how the lighting came out?

[EvenBid50]

just got my 1st camera (XS) I hope my first postings can look half as good as your photo.
Good Job !!!

Any good advice for a real newbie ? i'd like to hear it.

[RiKaN HaVoK]

me give you advice? lol ... that's like the blind leading the blind man ..

but my advice is to youtube Av/Tv/Manual Priorities ..

Knowing the difference can determine the pictures render by your camera ..

I'm sure you know this but if you don't - Read up on it ...

I only been shooting for a month total so I cant give much of any advice, sorry!

Oh .. Also shooting Raw like that you can edit picture (WB - Colors - Etc) vices .jpeg that gives you limited flexibility ...

Whatelse? That's all I can think right about now ...

I mean you already have a camera - take a few pictures post the best and let them guys here go to work .. you will never get better if your work never gets critic, just have a thick skin - I hate nothing more than to hear I have a wonderful shot and nothing is wrong (Not in a bad way) because it never tells me where can I improve ..

[Robert_Lay]

For a given scene, there is no such thing as the one and only correct exposure - that is too subjective an issue for hard and fast rules.

Ansel Adams made it quite clear when he and his contemporaries developed the Zone system. Once your subjective mind tells you where you want to place two important values from the scene, then it is up to you to do whatever is needed to get the exposure and the subsequent processing needed to realize that.

After digital cameras arrived the situation is still quite similar, except we do not normally think of selecting a placement for but one scene value during capture - we have to use RAW processing to simulate different developments from the same capture.

In the simplest possible sense, it is still up to the photographer to get things right, presuming that he will know right when he sees it.

[Broncobear]

I think the composition is good, the subject is so so interest but I like the dof...maybe bump the exposure a bit. Overall from a technical standpoint it is good,

[MCB]

I like the composition, too, and agree with Broncobear that the subject matter isn't really captivating.

Since this is a night shot, the "real" exposure would be pretty dark. In that sense if you are trying to capture the mood of the scene as you subjectively experienced it standing there, then it should be pretty dark. I think the exposure you (or your camera) chose did a good job of capturing the mood. If you bump the exposure then it looks more and more like a daylight shot and you lose the feeling of night. So I say you nailed it. perfect. Good work. :)

[Broncobear]

lol I didn't even realize it was a night shot. Guess exposure was fine in that case.