My first shots with my Rebel XT!

[thegreenegg]

So I got my Canon Digital Rebel XT on Monday. I was so off the wall happy- this means talking to my self and making sure I breath. Anyway, I have my very first shot of a human and some rework on a picture of my mother that I need some advice on. Comments very much welcome...
Ashley
This is Collen, she was sitting in the food court when I was first setting up my camera.

[thegreenegg]

My mom... the orginal shot...

[thegreenegg]

Mom, reworked on photoshop...I think she's too orange... but I'm having trouble, with inexperience to fix that...
Thanks,
Ashley

[DJ-S1]

Congrats on the new toy! I recently got a Rebel (not the XT) and have had a lot of fun with it. Takes a bit more getting used to than I thought, but it's fun.

Are you shooting RAW? Then you can change tons of things like exposure, white balance, etc on your computer. You can save a lot of images that way that would otherwise be junk. I highly recommend it.

I like the shot of your mother, I think mothers all over the world use that "look" daily! :lol3 I think you did a good job on the PS work, but as you said the color looks off. Sometimes the easiest change to make is to grab the right-most eyedropper in the "curves" adjustment dialog box and pick something in the image you know is supposed to be pure white. In this case, her shirt. Give that a try and see if it helps.

Good luck with the Rebel, and good luck resisting buying more lenses! I'm having trouble with that part...

[binghott]

congrats on the camera, you must be so happy. hopefully you'll find some money to buy some accessories and lenses too. those are great pictures for a start and your moms eyes are awesome, you should maybe try an unsharp mask on them to make them a little bit sharper.

enjoy and keep sharing!

-barry

p.s. is the girl in the first pic looking right at you in the reflection on the right?