Well I am a new photographer and took some photos for my friends!

[pinnacleseattle]

Well, please critique! Heres a few shots of the wedding (my first EVER!!). If it sucks please tell me what i can work on! Im thinking of picking up a T1i for some of my other friends weddings. I have the 10-22mm 28-135mm and a 70-300 lens, any other lens you would recommend?

[Stevie@JC]

No picture showing for me

[jonwhite]

Adding some pictures to the post rather than just a link will get you more responses as will being honest about your experience on your website.

[pinnacleseattle]

photobucket fixed it

JonWhite- You are correct.

[KevinPourroy]

They look soft

[Svetlana]

They look soft to me, too...I like the last one the best!

[advaitin]

In general they are soft. So, you just need to work on shooting technique. Probably a little more shutter speed and better depth-of-field control. What ISO were you using?

[Ralph Merlino]

They all look soft to me.

[pinnacleseattle]

I dont want soft!! What else do I need to do to not have them come out soft? my ISO was 400...i dont know photoshop at all, so i need to start reading these tutorials on pp. do you think the borders are stupid?

i appreciate the input! im going to take a class on photography, but i cant decide if i should do it at my university or a community college!?

[advaitin]

Originally Posted by pinnacleseattle

I dont want soft!! What else do I need to do to not have them come out soft? my ISO was 400...i dont know photoshop at all, so i need to start reading these tutorials on pp. do you think the borders are stupid?

i appreciate the input! im going to take a class on photography, but i cant decide if i should do it at my university or a community college!?

The borders are OK if you are putting them in an album. Next ? Are you shooting raw? Did you do any sharpening or set the camera for sharper images. It's hard to determine a cure without knowing the cause.

I see you used an XT and the lens was either a 135 or set to 135mm. Flash was used, at least in the one I checked. Shutter speed was 1/80s @ f 5.6 on normal program setting.

The flash should have overcome any shake, so it must be the lack of post-processing. Just my opinion at this point.

[pinnacleseattle]

I wasnt shooting in raw, i dont know how to set my camera to do sharper images, i had no idea that was an option. I appreciate you going through it to help me!! i had the 28-135lens on and the rest is a blur! thanks again!

[advaitin]

Originally Posted by pinnacleseattle

I wasnt shooting in raw, i dont know how to set my camera to do sharper images, i had no idea that was an option. I appreciate you going through it to help me!! i had the 28-135lens on and the rest is a blur! thanks again!

I used to have an XTi and since I always shot in raw, I never worried about in camera sharpening, but I suspect there may be either menu settings or custom functions that would have sharpened your JPGs some. I'll check on it. Sometimes I don't know what I'm talking about.

[advaitin]

Here you go. Do you still have the manual? If not here's a link:

http://helene.ethz.ch/edu/vp/instrum...T350DIM-EN.pdf

On page 63 it shows the menu settings for increasing sharpness.

[pinnacleseattle]

you rock! i appreciate the help, i probably have the manual at my dads house, we traded cameras...i sold him my 50d (i couldnt figure it out ofr the life of me) and he gave me the xt! I think im going to go back to the basics and learn how to use these cameras. I will add sharpening now to the XT. Again, thanks alot!!

[advaitin]

Here's the thing. If you shoot in RAW it gives you the opportunity to do all kinds of adjustments in the computer, even within the Canon Zoombrowser that came with the camera. You have to have downloaded and installed from the software disk to get upgrades and a more powerful program like DPP (that came with the 50D). You can find tutorials, I think, if you do a web search.

A JPG is like a final print, to some extent, and the RAW file is more like a negative. Just keep that in mind.

Good luck