This is my first upload and I am very excited. I have a canon SD200 which is pretty old but I am very proud of it as it always takes good pictures ( atleast according to me)

I know nothing about photoshop, nothing about photo editing..the only reason I am here is for my pure love for good photography and beautiful pictures.

Please comment on this picture of mine. Any and every suggestion is gladly welcome :D

http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Caedes::Infopage&image=juighate-1197870672.jpg

Looks good. I'd make suggestions, but I find that suggestions spoil the "love for ... photography" part.

I like the chicago shot.

Thank you...

If i said something wrong by saying 'My love for phtography', please pardon me.

Your suggestions and criticism are very important to me. How can they spoil the fun...when they will help me only get better????
Please keep them coming.

Thank you once again for commenting on them!!!

:) Well, ok...

You'll get better at taking pictures, slowly. A couple things bug me:

Exposure - your camera doesnt seem to have manual controls, and if it does it's probably buried deep in menus. Anyways, I see your shots are overexposed, like the sky is whiter that white. Unless you have a reason to 'blow' out the sky, then, you should try to expose properly. And to do that...

If you want your picture to appear 'brighter', then increase the exposure compensation value. It's a menu setting somewhere - on some cameras it's a button, on others it's deep inside some random menu, and on other cameras it doesnt even exist.

Anyways, to know if your photo is correctly exposed, then you have to learn how to read a histogram. guide. I also recommending reading the other articles from that site I linked.

The ground will sometimes seem way too dark if you correctly expose so there arn't any blown highlights - almost black - because the sensors in cameras don't 'record' as much of a range of 'brightness' as our eyes do. So what we see is not what the camera sees - which is why you are sometimes forced to take a photo of either the bright stuff, or the dark and/or edit your photos on your computer so you can bring out the shadow detail.


Second thing is...

Composition - for now your shots have composition that is pretty much technically good....for the most part, but here's a link you can read about composition. (it's really boring, I wouldn't read it if I were you).

Here's some links about photography:

Photography FAQ - extremely dry and boring to read, but has good info.

Cambridge in Color - one of my favorites.

Anyways, I should respond to a couple other posts elsewhere before I can play in the snow!