Finally i received my camera today and i took my first pictures with it :) Here they are...

f/22

f/3.5

 Great pictures! Great camera! Soon you will be carrying it with you everywhere you go. I have Canon EOS Rebel and the Rebel XT.  And I agree with Eric this is a good forum for learning.

Lonnie 

Okay...I know that I am 5 weeks late to class.  I've actually been here for about a week and a half just trying to catch up.  Here are my 3 pics...I know that my composition is off but I was just trying to make butta.

last one

Vipray... great job.. I noticed you have a 50mm 1.8

Do the exact same thing you did with the assignment, but use THAT lens..and take it down to 1.8..

You'll have more butta than John Goodman has in his arteries...

Gtrman

 nice job neo...just can't get enough butta....

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Ok I know I'm a day late and a dollar short, but I'm here now! I enjoyed this lesson and learned so much thank you thank you thank you!!! Here is my homework... Oh I will catch up so look out I'm comming at full speed!!!

Connie~

Hi!  I just moved to town! 

Ok, not just, but I mostly lurk.  I am stepping out of my comfort zone and joining class.

I think I did ok...but positive affirmation is always good!

next.......

and last!

Precisly Noel.  One thing you might want to try, now that you got the larger f/ number = more butta, try moving around the flower till the background is farther away from the flower, to get even more butta.

you mean like phsyically move the flower more forward?

Or maybe find something to focus on that has more seperation from the background?

Noel:

Or maybe find something to focus on that has more seperation from the background?

That, or it looks like the other side of the flower is farther away from the background than the side you chose.  If you focus on something close, like a flower, and the background is farther away, than your butta will melt more and more.Im guessing the flower and it's background were about 8-10 inches apart.  Try another angle or another flower with the background about 3+ feet away from the subject.  You will just melt that butta!!!

Oh ya baby!  I am all about melting the butta!

Thanks for taking the time to respond!

I know I'm new to this site but in reading in alot of the tutorials this thread has helped me so much, and I haven't even touched my camera yet. Your post makes it so clear to me now. Thank you so much, this was very helpful!

 Catching up....

I am new to this forum and interested in improving my photography.  I started reading this forum and decided to post some of my photos for some of these assigments.  The pictures are SOOC.  I realize I am late, but.....  hopefully, I won't be sent to detention.

Thanks for your help.

#3

LOL why thank you. 

Finally, I can respond to this.

These are probably not the most technically sound pictures, I was just trying to get the point of the lesson.

f/3.5

f/8.0

f/20 - by this point my shutter speed was too slow for me to hand hold, it's blurred a bit

Maybe I wont be the last.  Great tutorial.  I have been looking for something like this since I bought my Canon XTi (low end DSLR {as Flickr sees it} works beautifully for me)

f/32

f/11

f/2.6

Great job and Great Mittens. I am glad that people are still Looking at these lesson and learning from and enjoying them....gtrman Rocks!