You have some interesting photos, some aren’t what I particularly
care for, but that is one of the great things about photography,
you might like buildings and I might like birds, and we can both
pursue our own preferences. In the picture of the rose the reds are
over saturated; something that can be a major PIA with digital
cameras. That is virtually the case with all digital cameras, so
don’t go blaming Nikon and wishing you had a Canon because they
suffer too. The dog is underexposed and there isn’t any detail in
the picture. In fact I noticed a tendency to underexpose, I have
the same problem.
Look at this histogram for the landscape photo with the water and
the rocks.
Notice how the histogram is all bunched up on the left? The left is
your shadows (dark tones) with pure black being the left edge.
There is nothing on the right side, the highlights side. Ideally
you want the histogram to look like a big mound, or a series of
peaks between the right and left sides, tapering off as you get
close to either side. Anything of the chart is either lost detail
in the shadows – pure black, or lost highlights, pure white. The
really cool thing about your camera is that you can look at the
histogram right after you take the photo (page 117 in your manual).
You could adjust the Levels and the Shadows/Highlights and end up
with something like this.
Notice how the histogram has moved to the right, and there are more
details visible in the photo.
I like your hanging lights inside too, but again I think the shot
is too dark (underexposed). It does convey a certain mood, I will
grant you that, but I think there is a tremendous loss of detail.
I’d rather see something more like this.
That is just my opinion, you may well prefer the darker version for
the mood it conveys.
While some of your photos are not to my liking content wise, I
think they show a lot of talent. I don’t think you are going to
have any problems with having gone with Nikon; I don’t think you
would have had any problem if you had gone with Canon either, for
that matter, or Sony, or Pentax. The camera is just the tool, like
a hammer, it’s the person wielding the tool that makes the
difference. Just remember, it’s not the hammer that bends the nail,
it’s the guy swinging the hammer, and it’s not the tools that build
a house, it’s the men holding those tools.
--
Brooks
http://www.bmiddleton.smugmug.com
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own
bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
— W. Somerset Maugham
. I was told by them that
