Well, I'm happier with these I took the other day. I took more "nature shots" and only took these of the car.(sorry it's still not a mini) I set out to get some pictures of some snakes, and anyother wild life I could find.I think I steped on more then I got pictures of. Just I thought I would share them with you since you all Inspired me to pick the camera up in the first place.
Used Rebel Ti,
Standard lense 25-80,
Apature varied around F/8 On most
Un-known shutter
I'll have to start righting this stuff down. It might give me a better idea of what I am doing.
no editing. Don't have the software for that yet.Thanks for any feed back.

 

If you would like a bit of critique-

Your horizon levels are usually in the middle of the picture- Try putting them a third down from the top or up from the bottom. Putting subjects along the imaginary lines running a third of the way in from each side creates a little more dynamic movement. Other than that, maybe try some new angles, like really close, allowing the subject to just be large abstract shapes.

If you were looking for technical help with the camera settings, I'm sorry all I could give you was an artistic critque.

Good luck-

-Steve

 

The car photos are much nicer than the first batch you posted! I'm not enough of an expert to advise about aperture and whatnot, so just some suggestions about photo #2, which has great atmosphere to it with the long shadows and the textures of the siding and the roof. When you're taking a shot like that, try playing around with the positioning of it, so that you get a few shots, some with more or less sky, building, road, etc. Don't feel like you have to keep the car in the center of the photo; often it's more interesting off to the side. There's a general "rule" to keep in mind about having the horizon or other major division in the photo be about 1/3 of the way from top to bottom, left to right, etc., which can help sometimes. You never really know which perspective is going to work until you see the photos side by side. I like your photo, but feel that it could likely be improved by a different composition. That's my favorite time of day to take photos!

Edit: Steve beat me to one of my suggestions!

 

 

Most of these shot I took while walking back to the car. I was really just out and about taking pictures off different stuff.... I ended up burning up two roles of film.
I know what your talking about I could have been a little more creative. and next time I go out with just Car pictures on my mind I will do that.I am getting better so I think it's maybe time to go back and re do some of the pic I did the first time.

As for the snake I took that at the zoo earlier that day. It was a tuff one to shoot. It was inside with bad lighting, and glass between me and the snake( so I don't think a flash would have helped. It didn't help that people help open the door to walk in flooding the room with light and tossing a glare on the glass just as I opened the shutter.Well, they didn't know I was on there other side of the door.It must have took me a good 10-15 minutes to get that shot. Here are some more I took that morning.

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Yes you definitely are improving! Keep at it!

The nice thing about digital camera is they embed all that info into the photo file. If you look through my galleries you will see it displays all that below the photo. It's not the most important thing to pay attention to (framing, angle, light are much more) but certainly important to learn and experience the differences in apertures and exposures. There are many times I see photos here that I wish the photographer would give that information along with focal lenght, in order to learn a little more "how'd they do that."