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its small, very small

 

upload it again, bit larger if you please.

 

looks interesting, mainly beacuse of the colours

 

the composition looks cool too

 

maybe you could have overexposed it a little so the sky would be white

in addition it would be possible to get some more contrast with filters,

or use photoshop..

 

i think its looks cool, some things i would change, but who cares about that anyway :D

 

keep it going !

 

 

when I took the picture just got the camrea and had it set on the lowest picture size and did not know it, But I would realy like to know what you would have done differntly, The area that the picture is small, and not much room for error. But the out sideinput would help greatly

i see..thats okay, happens to me all the time :D

okay...what did i mean when i said id do something different here.

what i ment was the way the exposure is done.

i do not know what this function is called in english nor where it is located on the d40 but the sign looks like a [+/-]

this will under/overexpose your image for +/-0.3, +/-0.7, +/-1.0blends, etc - up to +/-5.0 (+/-5.0 it ison my nikon d1x, dont know what the d40 is able to do but ill guess its about +/-3.0 ?] you should try out what happens to a picture by using this function

you also should try out bracketing [bkt]which is basically that the next 2 pictures will be done different, one will be over and one will be underexposed. the setting is simmilar to the one i mentioned before, you can set the blend-steps that will be used.

now you got alot of pictures, but thats not the right way to do it.

first you try out what i just told you, try it under different circumstances (day night, morning, nightfall)

also try it by shooting different objects

try it out by doing fotos with flash (try all flashsettings if you got an external flashlight, i got the sb 800, got that really cheap comming along with a nikon f100 (some old guy was overstrained by it and sold me those 2 weeks old for peanuts harrharr )..if you dont have an external flash, get one :D you can do funny things with those, also i must acknowledge that i am not familiar with the d40 and dont even remember if it got a built-in flashlight, but i guess so. try out the settings for that thing too)

and now try it with filters.

d40 and filters? hell yeah.get yourself a uv-light-filter and a polarizer.you can easily google the function of this filters.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_filterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizerdo not alwys rely yourself on wikipedia, get some other input aswell pretty please

uv filter also works perfect as a lens-cover.tiny scratches dont matter, but you know...after spending that much money ...ya, blabla you know :D

now use the polarizer in addition to the things i mentioned above and youll see what happens

now get yourself a copy of photoshop and try out colored layers layed above the image (red(b/w), yellow(b/w)etc,..)try out color-channeling and so on...(try out crtl+i for funzies)

needles to say, that all these things i mentioned are described better in books, they are mostly about 50-100euro (dont know what that is in dollars but i guess a little bit more)

if you spent some money on your equipment, you probably should spend something on books too.

ph.net comes along with a real great forum, browse it, ask questions (there is no stupid question!!)

and now i forgot whatelse i wanted to tell you, but gotta go now.happy shooting

cheers

Thank you so much for your time, it means alot to me. You have given me a lot of great info

youre welcome