Looks like you're off to a good start. You seem to already know rule number one, which is "make your subject big". Or said another way, "fill the picture area with the subject".

The next thing I would work on is to take a look at the background before you press the shutter. Our visual system is great at filtering out distracting background elements, so it's easy to miss these things at the time. Then later, when you look at the resulting image, you're like "where did that telephone pole come from?" In a couple of your shoe photos, the white plastic chair is a bit distracting. And in the first dog photo (which is quite good, btw), the bright sunlight and the purple whatever (Frisbee?) are also somewhat distracting.

Basically, you don't want anything competing with what you are trying to show the viewer.

Lots of good info here: Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures

 

wow thanks a lot for the tips guys. UNC04SuzukaBlue seems to know his stuff. i took those pictures the night i got the camera. was too excited to really care about the bg. i know its something i must look into in the near future. those tips are pretty handy. and i went back to ritz and picked up a cokin adapter, filter holder, a gray gradation filter, also bought a 62mm circular polarizer for the 70-300mm lens, and i got a uv haze filter for the 18-55mm lens for free. cant wait to try them out in the day. thanks again guys.

 

picked these up.

 

pix look great! This camera with kit lense can work magic! heres another link how to take pix... it takes liek 15 mins to read and just gives you tips on how to take better pix.

http://asp.photo.free.fr/Composition/photo...MainClass.shtml

 

tiffany's

 

heres a pic i took with of a friend of mine. The color is way off bc i was messing with photoshop and i was playingwith the color settings of the camera. This camera can def. take some sweet ass pix

 

Lenses are extremely important. Spend a lot of time researching before you buy them.

 

thanks again for the advice guys. i picked up some more filters for the 18-55mm lens. quantaray spot filter, cross screen, and neutral density.
they got good deals like buy 2 get one free. now the next product im lookin at are flashes. anybody got some input on what would work best. right now im lookin at the 430ex



and/or a new bag cause its getting pretty packed.
gimme some ideas thanks

 

nice pic carbonXevo8

 

The 430 will more than suit your needs. The 580's longer throw is nice, but all the other features are a bit unneccessary. I've shot with both...they both perform nice.

Make sure to do a firmware update if your camera's not up to date, esp with the flash.