Unedited picture, what's your thoughts

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Very new to photography in a DSLR sense of photos

But I am trying to get my head round things, to capture my kids growing up in better quality, and better holiday snap too I suppose:)

I'm reading about aperture and shutter speed and trying to get my head round all the manual settings my point and shoots didn't have

I have taken a few photos, some, well most, look shocking and get deleted straight away others I'll have a play around with to see if I have captured something, but trying to use photoshop is a trial in itself :cuckoo:

So..... Here's a photo I took earlier, I have done nothing too it, apart from upload via iPhoto to Flickr


Bath time by npinks, on Flickr

What's you opinion for it, been a photo from a complete beginner
 
It looks a tad under exposed (dark). Do a search for adjusting levels in photoshop. This will be quite beneficial and will also give you a basic understanding of histograms and how you can use them as a guide for achieving good exposure.

Lightroom using raw is even better than ps for this kind of thing.

It's all one big learning curve so read plenty and put it into practice. Enjoy!
 
Thanks very much for your comments, I need to do some adjusting and I quite like the background colours of his toys, so thought it would be a good before and after photo for editing

I will be looking at getting on PS, I have CS5 but tonight read lots and Lightroom is often mentioned so might look at that, once the purchase cost of the camera equipment are a distant memory:lol:
 
Your fine with CS5, it would be silly to replace it with lightroom.

The exposure looks fine on my screen and I like the expression but would like to see the top of his head and the bottom of his chin.. and I would add some Gaussian blur lower down too lol
 
Be sure to check out the tutorials section here for some great advice.
 
The tutorials all over the web are been read, joined the library and got a couple of books and will read more on here as its looking to be a great resourse and I can spend hours looking at the photo threads

So need to step back/zoom out a little not to cut chins off and find out what Gaussian blur is LOL
 
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