so our school has a big C on the hill behind it, today a couple of friends of mine decided to hike up to it, i brought along the XTi to try and get some good pics of the view and whats around it.

didnt do any full manual stuff just set the camera to program mode
here we go:

























thats about it, comments please

 

The sunset picture looks nice.

 

Nice pics! Haven't visit UCR for a while now. Still looks quite and peacefull. Go Bear!

 

 

this was actually taken in the morning, around 7am

 

no one else?

i need to install/get photoshop using ms paint to resize is really degrading the picture quality.

and after looking at many pictures online i think i have alot to learn

 

Don't be bummed, that's half the fun

Some of the landscapes you shot have a lot of dynamic range, so it's hard to get both the shadow and brighter areas equally exposed. For those types of shots, it helps to return at a time of day when the lighting is more even.

For those shots of the city from above, they'd be more interesting in the twilight or early morning when the city lights would be more in effect. Or even at night.

For shots like the one of the sun dropping behind the mountain, meter the sky with the sun out of the frame, lock the exposure, then recompose the shot with the sun in the frame. The sky will look more pleasing that way. If you meter with the sun in the frame, the camera will try to expose it properly, which is pretty much impossible, and will underexpose the rest of the scene.

In the lower light shots, make sure you use a tripod so you can use longer shutter speeds. You also want to use smaller apertures for landscapes for greater depth of field, so a tripod is pretty much a must.

Landscapes are a little tricky to learn at first, due to the complex lighting you often run into. Keep shooting them and you'll get the hang of it.

Good job.

 

Good tips. Getting exposures right with bright and dark areas is really tough.

Although perhaps by exposing with the sun, and under exposing the foreground you end up with a neat result as well (such as just the black profile of the mountain against the blue sky, as Minch did).