crappy camera but the pictures turned out alright. what do you all think, compositionally and so forth? improvements, good or bad

comments welcome

 

The first photo the center is too dark. It would have been a cool photo if the H was lit up, making it look like the spokes are running the "light" to it.

The second the DOF is wrong, so as a result, it does nothing for me.

 

^^cool thanks for the advice

 

I agree with NFRs2000NYC. What are you trying to achieve in the pictures?

 

trying to achieve some bokeh ?

 

hard to get any kind of bokeh with anything smaller than an APS-C sensor.

 

Why is that? I've never heard that before. Bokeh (smooth blurriness) is an artifact of depth of field, not sensor size. Depth of field and aperture are controlled by the lens attached to the camera, not the dimensions of the sensor.

Wikipedia doesn't mention sensors in its explanation of bokeh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

 

Werd. Bokeh is solely an artifact of the lens, nothing more. You might say that you can get creamy bokeh with a point and shoot because their lenses aren't the greatest, but some can shoot F2.8, which is plenty, as evidenced by my old Sony H5.



While it certainly isn't the same as my SLR, it's still pretty smooth.

SLR Shots

 

i was just going for a semi abstract representation of the car. It was actually for a little project at school. I thought it would be neat to mess around with my buddys little camera...

I wasnt really trying to achieve anything just playing but i thought that there was an interesting depth of field in the second pic, just playing around and looking from some constructive criticism. Thanks for your comments guys, learning alot REALLY fast

thanks

 

let me rephrase, while its your lens that dictates what your bokeh looks like, sensor size does indeed affect your Depth of Field, which influences the amount of bokeh in your photo.

I just read this is last months issue of Popular Photography. Also, from Cambrideincolor.com


[QUOTE] as sensor size increases, the depth of field will decrease for a given aperture (when filling the frame with a subject of the same size and distance).