I took a few pictures with my Canon Digital Rebel (ok, it really belongs to my work). This is my first attempt in taking a cool picture. Please give pointers.

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This is constructive.

Nice pic.

Composition is good. Angle is good. Rule of Thirds is good.

Color, not so good. too monochromatic, to heave a shadow in the front.

Just my opinion.

 

Not a camera guy myself, but I agree the shadow in the front is too heavy. Don't know this rule of thirds, but other than the shadow, I think it looks great.

 

Yeah I agree, I think your composition is really nice. The color is probably just from the color of the lights, no biggie to me. Overall, great shot!

 

The color cast is from the white balance setting on your camera.

When shooting in parking structures and at night you need to adjust the white balance setting. More likely than not, you will wind up shooting either with Incandecent or Fluorescent. Basically what happens is each type of light (incandecent or fluorescent) has a different color temperture and that causes "white" to look different under each setting.

Composition wise, I like it.

 

^^^ what he said.

If you don't feel comfortable playing with the WB settings. At least drop the pic in photoshop and adjust it there or throw it under "auto levels" to clean that up a bit.

 

I like the composition as well but I have to agree that the sepia tone just isn't working in this one. It works for everything but the car, I'm asuming the car is silver because it still looks silver. This shot would be much better in black & White, and you could use the dodge tool to lighten up that pesky shadow.

 

i actually like the lighting, it's pretty much unique

 

wow, thanks for the feedback. Too bad you're all speaking a different language to me, cameraspeak. I understand some of it, but not all. I'm going to do some research. I never took any kind of photography class or lessons, nor do I have any other knowledge of photography.

Thanks!

If it helps, here's some info on the shot: (more at http://www.flickr.com/photo_exif.gne...xt=photostream)

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Exposure: 6 sec (6)
Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0/2 EV