some pictures from a short trip to Taipei, comment, and critique is more than welcome!

Hi guys! I'm a beginner who just learned the most basic knowledge about photography.

I bought this A7(first gen) as my first serious camera, and i really learned A LOT after this trip.

The only lens i have is kit lens. My plan was to decide which lenses i may need the most after this trip, since my budget is relatively tight.

All my pictures are jpeg, as I haven't learned much about lightroom and other types of software. However, I did download a trial to try it out and play around with it since a lot of my pictures are noisy and not leveled.



During the trip I always encounter two major problems: lack of light due to the rainy days and haze.




















bad picture..it looks good in person!



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this scene looks stunning in person...but i was really frustrated for failing to take a good picture of it. I believe the "blade" shape flair is caused by some rain droplets on the UV filter.



















man...photography is hard, but yet enjoyable



anyways. Feel free to comment on them. And maybe tell me little bit about how you would edit it on LR instead.



Thanks for reading my post and hope these pictures won't hunt your eyes lol

Doesn't look like the work of a beginner by any stretch! You've got a good eye. Well-balanced compositions. Good variety of subject matter, perspectives, and processing styles. I especially liked the images of the villages (one beside the river and the one on the hillside), though they were a little noisy (you can improve this a little if you work in raw). Also especially like your monochrome images....

you do have a good eye. nicely done i'd ditch the filter though unless your getting ocean spray or something

Great pictures, a little dark for my taste but that might have been what you were after. I would probably upped exposure and lightened shadows in lightroom.

Where was this picture taken?
Thanks

KENwck said:

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this scene looks stunning in person...but i was really frustrated for failing to take a good picture of it. I believe the "blade" shape flair is caused by some rain droplets on the UV filter.

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Really good shots in Jiufen, you made me home sick.

Mostly low key but I like the atmosphere!

These are quite good Ken, a delight to view. I especially like the fourth one.

Dave

KENwck said:

Hi guys! I'm a beginner who just learned the most basic knowledge about photography.

I bought this A7(first gen) as my first serious camera, and i really learned A LOT after this trip.

The only lens i have is kit lens. My plan was to decide which lenses i may need the most after this trip, since my budget is relatively tight.

All my pictures are jpeg, as I haven't learned much about lightroom and other types of software. However, I did download a trial to try it out and play around with it since a lot of my pictures are noisy and not leveled.

During the trip I always encounter two major problems: lack of light due to the rainy days and haze.










bad picture..it looks good in person!

[ATTACH alt="this scene looks stunning in person...but i was really frustrated for failing to take a good picture of it. I believe the "blade" shape flair is caused by some rain droplets on the UV filter."]1294638[/ATTACH]
this scene looks stunning in person...but i was really frustrated for failing to take a good picture of it. I believe the "blade" shape flair is caused by some rain droplets on the UV filter.









man...photography is hard, but yet enjoyable

anyways. Feel free to comment on them. And maybe tell me little bit about how you would edit it on LR instead.

Thanks for reading my post and hope these pictures won't hunt your eyes lol

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These are really good - I agree, you have a very good eye - and learning/using Lightroom will help a lot.