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Finally got my DSLR body (yesterday) and lenses (today) - here's a few nice shots from a 40th birthday lunch today (no PP, just converted to JPG then reduced to 80% quality for quick web publishing):

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allandrick/400487304/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/400487304_fc9761d97c.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="JSL" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allandrick/400487301/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/400487301_cea59ee458.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="SJ" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allandrick/400487306/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/171/400487306_8f05bd0713.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Birthday Boy" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allandrick/400487309/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/400487309_5deeb449b3.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Birthday Cake" /></a>

Cheers

Leigh

you have got to be happy with those
I wish my first photos with a DSLR had been that good

I'm absolutely gob-smacked at the quality of the lenses - the first two were taken with the 70-200mm, the other two with the 17-40mm.

You see Keith?

Anyone can use a Canon, but it takes skill to use a Nikon.


Seriously, Leigh, those are great shots, and it shows that you already have a level of proficiency from which you will leap, and you'll soon be producing images that will be impressing even the most hard-nosed amongst us.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you can pull out of the camera once you start to become comfortable with the featureset.

these photos are great, colours are right and the picture is sharp and clear.

is this seriously your first time with a dslr?

Leigh - looks like the learning is over on the first afternoon: great colours and sharpness, now to the serious stuff of shooting at the Clipsal 500.

fozzie

Thanks all for the feedback - I was tickled pink to get such a good result on my first day out

is this seriously your first time with a dslr?

I picked it up last night at 5pm and the lenses on the way to the birthday party. I have been an on-and-off again hobbyist for a long time though, but not with a dslr - previous cameras were a Canon EOS 500N (took ~40 rolls in NZ in ~1996) and a PowerShot S45 (took ~12k pics in Eu during a holiday in 2003).

I understand the basics - enough to be dangerous!

More pics going up shortly from a second (big) 40th party this evening, where I acted like a paparazzi for most of the evening

Amazing how people will play up to a "real" camera, as opposed to a P&S!

Cheers

Leigh