Bad habits die hard I suppose, even in kids. Four years down the road still being cheeky with the same eye. And what a coincidence this one was captured over his breakfast too but he was more aware of the K20D in my hands.

This was taken with my 50mm F1.4 at f2.4, 1/60" ISO 200, Focus mode AF-S and flash

Any comments or suggestions for improvement are truly welcome

Amin

I think my server hadn't refreshed that's why it hadn't appeared. Phew!! I was getting worried, lol, but there it is now.

I am still new to this, so am wondering if I should still resize it further

Thanks

Amin

Hi everyone,

Seeing the expression on the picture of Stefan's pic of his little brother reminded me that I have a couple of them of my little ones but taken with my fuji compact. I would love to capture some of the similar expressions with my new shiny K20D now and improve on quality.

So comments, advice and suggestions are welcome hoping to get one notch up and capturing them with the K20.

Might I say that I am a total newbie to the world of DSLR but would like to think that I hold deep within me remnants of an artist's soul .

This pic was taken when I managed to snap at the exact moment when he was starting to crunch his cornflakes. Didn't intend to do it that way but when I saw the pic I was pleasantly surprised. At first I didn't know why he had that expression specially with the eye but then went backwards and forwards on other pics on the sequence and saw the ones he was gladly chewing the cornflakes




Thanks

Amin

H Spencer

Welcome from a newbie in all the general aspects of photography. I have dived into the deep end coming straight from a compact.

All I can say is this is a great bunch of people and extremely welcoming and helpful. Well, you must have already had experience on that as you mention that you have already cast your requests for help and they have been well received.

Welcome to the forum

Amin

Stefan

Love the picture and you managed to capture the expression in his eyes just at the right moment and the mouth expression to coincide with it, not too wide a smile nor a closed one. Gives that beautiful innocent expression of being just at the start of what he might be about to say something or perhaps about to feel shy and inhibited.

Nice photo, definitely a lens that I dont regret buying yesterday, courtesy of some of your beautiful butterfly macros, although haven't had the chance to snap many shots.

And I share the comments above, from an inexperienced rookie, so quite a limited view, but it gives me the impression that if the brown of the sofa goes then you are left with an extraordinary picture because then you are left with the dark background enhancing the image, and the dust on the sofa and the brown of it seems to ruin it a bit.

Regarding the expressions and capturing right at the moment, that takes a bit of luck to get. I have a couple of my little ones taken with my fuji compact so quality not as high but I really cherish those images.
Luck plays a huge part in getting them in those moments.

Would love to show them here but I prefer to ask your permission as this is your thread and I think its only polite to ask you first if you dont mind.

I wouldn't like to risk steering the topic of comments that you asked from viewers for your photograph above away from it.

oh my, does this one make me feel good . Seeing this one I feel finally that I among humans again, susceptible to flaws and mistakes ha

I got a lot of those, and when I able to rephrase this and write "I have got a few of those" I will be much much happier

Amin

Great idea. It really never crossed my mind this detail even with so many digicam pics I have accumulated along the years specially of my little ones.

Time now to sort those ones out, while there aren't many of those edited versions. Because I know the collections has started growing with the arrival of my dear K20D.

Thanks

Amin

Stefan

Yes thats the one. The colours are great and it just stands out with the orangie patterns.

WOW, I just saw the pic on the link straight out of the camera, and I am overly impressed. You know what? Now I am seriously considering the lens, and when I mean seriously I mean SERIOUSLY like this afternoon. If those details stand out that way its definitely what I want from a lens.

Just help me out here, at what distance physically were you from the vulture and butterfly when you took these pics? I am an absolutely newbie in macro aspects but its something that I would love to dedicate myself into, so I would like to have a perspective of physical distances from the subjects please. And yes I am inclined towards the 100mm rather than the 50mm one after reading some suggestions in some other threads.

And yes I would love to see your other pics also straight from the camera. Boy... you are going to be responsible in me burning a £350 hole in my wallet. Well I guess if I have to do it I better do it now so that I get the £50 cashback.

PMed you for the pics straight from the camera.

thanks

Amin

thank you so much everyone for all the advice. I will follow it all to the minute details as I notice even in one of the threads that someone has had his external HD faulty and all the pictures gone with it.

So I should then continue to shoot in the highest quality that I get, been doing that since I got the K20D. Excellent.

Not started with RAW still but I am sure I will swiftly be diving into it soon . Regarding the bigger prints , how did you guess that I am already entertaining in my mind one day being able to do that and hang around some bigger prints in the house(to see the smile in my wife's face and hopefully get my budget for photographic gadgets increased while still getting warm dinners and goodies cooked happily )

Saving files that are still incomplete while editing in PSD or TIFF format, will make sure to remember that once I get back into editing. I am starting a 10 week course in photography and photoshop editing next week and I am so looking forward to that.

And regarding backup, I will flag an extra importance to that also thanks for your advice, I have a seagate external HD hooked with USB with freeagent running which backs up every day all my data files and pictures included. Got my home and kid's movies in there and as the collection is growing I have been seriously considering to get another backup as well. I have some family movies in there that I have digitalised from old VHS tapes over 20 years old and dread to lose them.

Am quite thankful to get all your advice. This way I can continue to shoot with more confidence knowing that its the way I should be doing.

Thank you so much

Amin

Hi everyone

First of all I do apologise if this question has been raised. If it has been discussed somewhere then someone please point me to the right thread. I looked around and couldn't find any.

I am basically trying to understand how you all store the pics with relation to the sizes. I have the impression that I am doing something wrong and it could be improved.

I will run briefly what I do so someone please suggest me what or how to do in a better way.

First of all I keep the setting for recorded pixels to the maximum on my K20D (not sure if this is generally the idea, would like to know what most of you keep at)

Consequence of this is my files come out at approximately 10MB.

What I would like to know is whether this is from where you generally then use the editors to reduce the pixels and store them, or if you store them as they are and you just edit them before uploading somewhere or what is the general consensus on tackling this.

Do the images lose a lot in quality and if they do how much does it affect, and if its just negligible to the common eye and for pictures for general use only and occasional printing at normal post card sizes.

And in case if I want to maintain the highest quality of some of the shots I intend to keep then what do I do? Should I just save them as they are or in this case should I shoot and store in RAW format.

Suggestions, advice any recommendations please would be of great help.