fact on the field

after i had my nikon D40 i`m really excited to go take some photo outside and try my camera. just the same like a lil kid that just got his new toy :D
my first shoot its arround end of february 2009. before going to go outside and take the shoot, i`m already read some tutorial and also some video explanation on youtube. so i know the basic how to use this dslr. i just said that i know how to use dslr, actually not really lol. if i really know how to use dslr my picture not going to turns out like this (see picture on this post) but because i`m so excited and tought that with dslr the picture are going to be much better. i´m not thinking that i`m going to captured a bad photo with this dslr camera.

i got back to my room and tranfser my photo to my laptop and show it to my girlfriend. i hope that its going to quite excited for her to see my first captured with dslr and see what my campus area look like. but its not the case here. she doesnt seems really excited. the fact is she said that i captured bad images. she said that her friends can captured a lot better than me. i said this is my first captured i`m still need a lot of think to learn, but she said this image are too far away from dslr image quality. at that time i`m not really know a lot about photography and how to maximize the end result of the image. and i also tought for the first image it´s cannot be so wrong with this image. but the critique from my girlfriend really touch my feeling quite bad. i`m bit disappointed with her strong sentence to me. but after that talk i take some time to think and review my photo. yes it is i tought. it`s not a good image. i dont need dslr camera if i just want captured photo like this. maybe even my mobile phone camera can captured almost the same photo like this. but that not going to be my barrier to learn about photography. i talk to myself that if i`m really want to learn and explore photography this critique cannot made me down. i have to step up and learn from this failure. so after this moment i start read a lot of article about basic camera use and basic photography so i can know how to improved my knowledge in photography world.
i think the lesson from my experience here is if someone give a critique to you, you have to use it and learn from it. analyze your failure and learn how to fix that. never let that make you down and stop your step to be better. make that critique to make you a better person with more knowledge. i think its better to hear a lot of critique rather than just a good comment. good comment make you happy but you cannot really grow from that. its just make you happy for a moment and thats it.