I'm almost giving up!!

[Gratris]

Wow, a great amount of advice given there and appreciate every single reply, I truly do.

I will attempt to apply all the advice and practice, then practice some more.

ABERS - Sorry but you are not correct, I do not feel pleased by the images. But I will certainly will not despair

Thanks again for the advice guy's.

[beatnik69]

As Mr Bump says the lighting is the main issue here. If you can go here again on a brighter day, early morning or late afternoon as the sun is setting. A circular polariser will help saturate colours. Composition isn't too bad. In the first one I don't know if the van was moving or not but you could wait until it has passed.

[Markyboy1]

Hi Gary, im new here and pretty much to photography but from what I see there's not a lot wrong with your photos that a little tweak wouldnt sort out. I would think 99% of us arent always happy with what comes straight from the camera and most of us would tweak our images a little

Mark

[donoreo]

I agree with the issue being the time of day. At sunrise or sunset these photos would look very different. Photography is all about light.

[Gratris]

Thanks guy's, I appreciate the help and advice.

[wave01]

hi can i ask a couple of questions. was this shot in RAW or JPG, if it was JPG then try and shoot RAW you maybe able to pull things back that way. from exif it looks like you are using program mode, is that right. if it is then try to use AV mode for more control.
dont give up you learn by your successes and your failures. we all learn every day

[Gratris]

It was shot in JPG. Could you explain to me what RAW is and why it's better than JPG please? I am under the impression that it's bigger than JPG and will take up more room on a memory card, not that that matters.


I will not give up but it does become frustrating when you see quality photo's everywhere apart from your own collection...lol

Thanks again for all the advice guy's

[Jediboy]

Bottom line, RAW gives higher image quality. And allows greater control in pp. but file sizes are bigger.
Hop this helps.

More detail here;

http://digital-photography-school.com/raw-vs-jpeg

[Gratris]

Thanks for the info and advice.

Another question I have is when I look at peoples photo's in the gallery it says that the exposure time is 60/1 or 140/1 and some say 1/160.
The latter, I assume, is 1/160th of a second. So does that mean that 60/1 is 60 seconds?


Again, apologies for going on and thanks in advance.


Regards
Gratris

[markgozz]

Quick answer is Yes .

60/1 would be 60 seconds and 1/60 would be 1/60th of a second .

No need for apologies .

Mark