Some photo's of my Cocker Spanial

[MilanoChris]

Well, my long term girlfriends. I know the pics aren't the best - I'm just starting out.

Here's part of the park where we was:
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn173/MilanoChris/Archie/IMG_8448.jpg

Aren't dogs meant to chase the ball?
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn173/MilanoChris/IMG_8417.jpg

That's better:
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn173/MilanoChris/Archie/IMG_8416.jpg

And some others:
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn173/MilanoChris/Archie/IMG_8438.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn173/MilanoChris/Archie/IMG_8435.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn173/MilanoChris/Archie/IMG_8413.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn173/MilanoChris/IMG_8418.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn173/MilanoChris/IMG_8411.jpg

I will continue to add to this thread over the coming months, I hope to seen an improvement with the pictures as I get used to the 400D and all of the settings.

[rh1944]

I like the last one best - for me, most of the others seem to have too little subject matter.

[baldwyn]

That tongue :D

[MilanoChris]

I like the last one best - for me, most of the others seem to have too little subject matter.

Please explain, I am a newb to this. Do you mean that there's not enough of the dog in the photo? If yes, then yes I agree; it's hard getting good close up shots of him as he's always so far away and I'm limited to 55mm max zoom (EOS 18-55 lens). I would buy a new lens but I want to learn how to use my current one to it's max potential before I spend money on something that will simply give me more zoom then now.

[hypnotic]

Most animal shots will look better by getting down to their eye level as in the last shot.

The last shot also has a bit of a blue tint going on there as well.

[menacedingaling]

Agree with hypnotic, eye level shots give best results.

Here is a few shots of my dog, Misty.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/1672953501_a86f86acb3.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2216/1673805798_12d0886abf.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2368/2518131898_bc77a99106.jpg

Hope this helps, and practice makes perfect.

[MilanoChris]

Thanks chaps. I've only had the camera for a couple of weeks and this is the first time I've took it out on a walk with the dog. I'm very eager to learn and I'm doing lots of research. Hopefully you'll all see (and me) an improvement as time goes on and I start to learn of of the camera and lens' abilities.

All comments will be taken on board and I certainly don't mind a bit of critisism - how else would I learn!

WRT to the blue tint comment; is that good or bad?