First photos from my new XTI

I'm really not sure yet what I'm doing exactly as this is my first SLR camera. I purchased Peterson's "Understanding Exposure" book over the weekend and am starting to make my way through the XTI manual. Here are a couple of my first photos with it. I couldn't find an ornament of a duck.

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You've made a fantastic start there. Exposure on the second one is perfect, for the subject matter.

Lovely. Please continue.

Nice first shots.

You did a great job with your first shots!
Welcome to POTN!

Very nice on both. Good work.

That second one rocks!! May I ask the approximate distance between the candle and the tree?

johnthebaptist wrote in post #2352364
That second one rocks!! May I ask the approximate distance between the candle and the tree?

Thanks for the replies all.

I think the tree is about 9 feet from the candle. The dark grey blob in the very lower right of that photo is our cat sleeping beneath the tree.

Nice pics...

you have a christmas tree already?

lakiluno wrote in post #2352653
you have a christmas tree already?

The weekend after the American holiday of Thanksgiving (the last Thursday of November) is when many American families put up their Christmas decorations. We didn't put ours up until Sunday and we were the last ones on our block.