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Very cute! Just what today's bride wants!

 

Jason Hudson

www.hudsonphotos.com

"I've been taking pictures for 35 years and use both manual and automatic cameras. I think that the constant advice to beginners to buy manual cameras is wrongheaded and probably leads to many people being turned off photography."

 

I completely disagree and here's why. When I wanted to get into photograph and take better pictures I bought an autofocus, automatic everything camera and started shooting. Yes I did learn composition and a little about light, but I just left the camera in auto mode all the time. I soon realized that I knew nothing about shutter speeds, apertures, focusing, etc. I feel that starting out on an auto AF SLR will not teach you anything about photography. It wasn't until I bought a old manual slr that I understood what shutter stops and apertures were and how they related to each other. Buy a manual SLR if you want to learn how photography works. If all you want to do is take great photographs, buy a Nikon F5 and a SB80DX flash and put the camera on "program" mode.

 

 

 

Yes a manual SLR that allows you to control shutter speeds and apertures would do you a world of good, as would a book or course in photography.

 

BUT... there are things you can do right now with your point and shoot which will improve your photographs.

 

1) Turn off the flash!

 

2) Place your baby in front of a window

 

3) Load the camera with 400 speed black & white film

 

4) Don't "pose" your baby. Take natural photos of your child.

 

Now.... go to your local bookstore and get "How to photograph your baby" by Nick Kelsh.

 

Good luck with your new hobby!

 

Jason Hudson

www.hudsonphotos.com

Interesting composition. Well done!

 

It could use a little work in PhotoShop to correct skin tones and smooth out the skin a little.

If you're trying to convey a mood of early morning or moonlight then I think it's great. The main question is.. do you like it?

Nice exposure. Did you meter off the brightest area?

Beautiful, sweet, romantic, lovely.

Can't believe it's digtial. Nice job.

Nothing to critique. Exposure on window light is great, exposure on darker side is great, expression and emotions are great. I can't find anything wrong with it. You should submit that to competitions!

Toothbrush?

very cool.

So good I thought it was film!

 

Nice curves. Excellent photograph!

Looks perfect to me.

It's too small to critique.

Nope.

Change it to black & white.

Not sure what the title has to do with anything but I bet this gets more hits than any other post today!

I like this and every image in both your folders. Very creative photography.

I think those fumes might be harmful to your pregnant model!

Very nice exposure. Do you remember the camera settings?

 

How do you like that Sigma 20mm 1.8? I have been considering purchasing that one.

What took you so long to shoot black & white? Fun isn't it? I haven't found a scanner that does well with b/w either... especially scanning negatives. Filters with b/w film mainly effect contrast. Yellow and green can smooth out contrast while red intensifies it. Try a red filter sometime on a cloudy day. Have fun!

Cool image! Here's one of my Little Rock photos taken from atop the Peabody Hotel during a wedding reception I was covering.

The lines are indeed a pain to edit out Robert. My websites sells my wedding photography, so I can't have lines there at all.

More topless than nude, but more importantly my scanner does the same thing - putting those lines through the image. What's up with that?

I love how the colors on the tree mimick the colors on the barn. Is that a refelection of trees that give the barn that color or is that color actually part of the barn? Nice graphic elements either way.