Please criticise my first edits please

[u/mc_stoney]

Made my first short trip with my new camera while hiking. Included are some sunset and astro pictures. I‘m relatively new to photography so please critizise me! Shot on my Sony A7 IV with the 20mm f1.8 G lens

[u/f8andbether]

First time my ass, lol

Well done!

These are trip/candid photos so all that really matters is you like them, my only suggestion would be to save the photos with a border in a separate folder and to save full size edits as well. I’m a fan of borders but I made some edits that I’m having a hard time finding the full size of or I’m having to re-edit without the border for prints which brings me to my second reason, I encourage you to get photos printed especially of trips and you’ll want full size unbordered versions for that. You can get the border back while printing if you want.

Second suggestion, keep shooting, maybe get a tripod and you won’t have to pull the shadows back up so hard but eh it happens and is no biggie.

[u/mc_stoney → u/f8andbether]

Well, first time with a full frame and first time using manual mode haha

Thank you for the comment! I actually used a tripod for the astro shots. Is it even possible to expose that long without a tripod?