How Can I Improve?
Sorry if this post is too long!
I recently bought a Nikon D610 and 50mm Lens and would love any critiques and advice you can provide! This was my first outing with a camera and actually taking photos.
Specific question regarding these photos:
Would I be better off with another lenses for landscape photography? or at least in the scenario of photos 1 & 2?
Photos 3-6, I like the color contrasts in these photos but noticed that the colors change with different aperture settings. Does this have to do with exposure? My hunch is that the camera automatically changed ISO and Shutter Speed to compensate in different aperture values leading to the difference in color (exposure?)
Photo 7; This is more about composition. I tried to make the man with a guitar the subject, what should I have done to compose this photo better?
Photos 10-12; I can't decide which photo looks better, and I've used different settings to change the look between each shot.
Some of the other photos I believe would look better with a different lens, maybe suggestions would help?
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Camera settings for each photo -
Aperture priority mode
Jpeg Fine
White Balance Auto
Auto ISO
Minimum ISO 100
Max ISO 1600
Minimum shutter speed 1/100
sRGB
Picture Control (SD)
AF 39 points
Center weighted area 20mm
Majority are Matrix Metering
1.)1/400 F5.6 100ISO
2.)1/160 F5.6 100ISO
3.)1/800 F1.8 100ISO
4.)1/100 F16 320ISO
5.)1/250 F5.6 100ISO
6.)1/250 F5.6 100ISO
7.)1/160 F5.6 100ISO
8.)1/500 F5.6 100ISO
9.)1/4000 F1.8 100ISO
10.)1/100 F16 320ISO (.) Spot metering +/- 0.7 (? not sure what this does, but it changed exposure somehow?)
11.)1/1600 1.8 100ISO (.) Spot metering
12.)1/2500 1.8 100ISO
13.)1/500 5.6 100ISO
14.)1/2500 1.8 100ISO
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Thanks again for any feedback.