Techlomanic good pics and nice vision.
If you can you should plan to have a DSLR in the coming year.
Does all these pics r taken in manual mode? If yes then you should buy a D-SLR.
Manual mode always.
I hate auto mode, using it only in case of a hurry when photos of celebs/leaders have to be clicked fast. About the D-SLR, nope I won't be buying it anytime soon as I got this cam in November 2008 for 18k and I have still not begun earning. When I do get a job, I shall get a DSLR or maybe even a waterproof DSLR.
Now this is just a example of what post processing can do to images. Here you can see the all the details in this image which were hardly visible in the original one. This mean that the original one was not properly exposed. I havn't produced them but they were hidden in the image posted by techlomaniac. i just corrected the exposure in a editting software. Although the editing depends upon the mood/emotion you want to put on the image. But this is just a example.
Good example. With a little bit of finetuning, this one could be even better. Maybe we can even start a touch-up others pics thingy here, like you click pics and upload and I will touch up. That way, we can all benefit. What say?
I am still new to photography and I believe that the best way to learn is trial and error. That's how I understood the uses of Shutter Speed and Aperture. Practical knowledge.
One more personal belief is that one must have an idea of how he wants a shot to look, something like a painting and the photo (after a few tries, of course) comes out that way. Again, spoken from personal experience.