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I like them, but they seem a little dark
This one looks good, but his eyes are closed.
http://hcor.net/modules/coppermine/a...%20025%20s.jpg
This for example, so I got the photo, I don't think you mind, most people don't when it is a helping website, but forgive me if you do, just let me know.
I'm no expert by any means but just thought I would reply to your post.
Yep, quite dark on my screen too.
O.K. Thoughtful (or should that be Mr. Pirate?). Here's my 2 cents worth. I agree with Peter that these are too dark (at least they are on my monitor). This can be fixed digitally after the fact, as shown by Peter, but it is better if you can get them as close to what you want out of the camera (I am of course assuming you didn't want them this dark). You might want to study up on the theory on metering and exposure and then practice, practice, practice until you can consistently get the exposure you want out of the camera.
Secondly I’m not sure if the photos you’ve shot as verticals are best suited to that format (of course it’s hard to tell if they would be better as horizontals without seeing them as horizontals). In the third photo the front wheel is right up against the edge of the frame. Since the space behind the rider isn’t, for me, contributing anything to the photo I think it would have been better if you had left some space in front of the bike for the rider to ‘ride into’. The fourth photo is better in this regard – good stuff.
Also with the third photo, since the sun is behind the rider he is very dark. While there are plenty of great shots with the rider silhouetted I don’t think it works in this case. So in these circumstances it is often good to pop a bit of fill flash. You just need to look at Photo-John’s shots to see how useful a bit of flash can be. So I would also recommend you play around with your flash a bit more.
Keep shooting. I never get sick of looking at MTB shots.
Cheers, Poobah