I've been lurking on this board for a while, but I'm ready to share my own pics now. :)

I took these pictures of my little lovebugs last night and I'd love some constructive comments and tips to better what I'm doing.

I don't want to put them on here directly because they're so big, so I'll just link you all.

Any ideas on other things I can do to get better pics or make the pics I took better? I'm planning on 'removing' the tag off the giraffe in one of the pictures a bit later as it's kind of an eyesore.

Oh bummer! It wouldn't let me put the link in. Let me try again

mathisphotography.blogspot.com

I didn't know you were Lily's mama! I'm subscribed to her caringbridge! Love the pics!

kathryn,

are those babies all yours? trips? wow.

my biggest suggestion w/o knowing your settings (ie...what camera, shutter speeds, apertures) would be composition. i saw a lot of centered photos...google "rule of thirds photography" and try to incorporate that...

beautiful kids!

if you could share your exif data i could give more feedback.

Sure, I can go through each one and let you know what the data on them was. I have it all written down in my notebook.

I'm really bad at centering pictures. lol. I know that it's really not that great to, but I'm just drawn to doing it.

I've got a Canon Rebel XT. These pics were shot with my 18-200mm lens with hood. No flash on any of them. I'll grab my data and brb

Ok:

Picture 1 -
ISO 400
Ap 5.0
Shutter 1/125

2 -
400
5.0
1/125

3 -
Same

4 -
400
6.3
1/200

5 -
400
7.1
1/400

6 -
400
6.3
1/160

7 -
400
6.3
1/200

8 -
Same as above one

9 -
Same as above

10 -
400
5.6
1/250

11 -
Same as above

12 -
Same

13 -
400
7.1
1/250

14 -
400
6.3
1/250

15 -
400
7.1
1/250

16 -
400
6.3
1/200

just wanted to say hi Kathryn! (off to go look at your pics now!)