Introduce Yourself & Welcome Other Members (archive)

Just joined the forum and thought I'd share a little of my photography experience. Even though I took photography courses and did some of my own B&W darkroom work in college (early 1980's), I was mostly a point and shoot snapshot gal until we bought a cabin in Colorado in 2009. With all the wildlife literally walking up to my door, my interest in photography was renewed and I bought a DSLR (Canon XSi). I took refresher courses on the basics and now find myself signing up for photography tours and going places specifically for taking photographs. My main interests are wildlife, landscape and macro (to the extent I can manage without a macro lens).

This forum looks like a great resource and I look forward to participating and also getting feedback on my photos. It's really difficult to self evaluate when you are still learning what to look for. Thanks so much to the people who provide this great place to share ideas and learn!

Hi my name is Steve and I live in Darwin - Northern Territory of Australia. I am a real novice with photography, but i am keen to learn how to capture the sorts of images being posted on this site. I can assure you I will be an avid reader of the posts to see what tips I can pick.

Hey! my name is Cisco, i currently reside in East Bay Area California. I've been into photography for 7+ years now. I love learning. I actually signed up here with the hopes of learning and broadening my photography experience, and meeting/talking with new photographers, which is why i signed up :D So far im loving it here. I currently own a Canon 60D. and if you'd like to check out some of my images on Flickr, you can check here… feedback (positive or negative) is always greatly appreciated.

Hello one and all, my name is Leigh and I'm from the UK, I have a Canon 40d soon to buy a 7D hopefully, been a keen photography for a number of years now, just starting to submit to microstock websites and looking to learn all I can, I will soon be posting some questions about IR photography, just waiting for the rain to stop so I can try my new ir720 filter ;)

Hi JPS
I have a Fuji F600EXR. I also have a Fuji Finepix S8000fd that I've had for a while. What I'm trying to achieve is being able to turn of auto and know a bit about what I'm doing :rolleyes:

I've taken some decent shots with the old one but thats pure fluke and I can't do the same thing twice.

No current pics to upload yet but I'll load a couple soon I hope. I'm still reading the manual!

Kitt

Hi kitt,
Fuji makes some good cameras; in fact it was my first (Bridge) camera before I bought my Canon DSLR. I have some excellent pictures from mine and I'm sure you will with get some with your one. If you start posting as soon as you can, we will do all we can to help you and hopefully make the quailty of your pictures repeatable.
Don't forget the tutorials on the site, you will find them a great help.
Power to your 'Shutter' finger. :D

Greetings everyone. My name is Bill, and live in Bandon, OR. A really good friend of mine who refers to himself as a "pixel nerd" got me interested in this great hobby. I' ve started off with a nikon 3100, 18-55 & 55-300 mm lenses. So much to learn, a little intimidating to tell you the truth. But I live in a great are on the Southern Oregon coast in which to learn.

Greetings and Salutations,

My name is Steve and I'm currently residing in Utah. Photography has always been an interesting and captivating brain wave of mine for a hobby, but I've never taken the plunge until now.

I currently do not have a camera and am starting from ground zero with gear (currently researching to buy) and knowledge on this subject, so I'm pretty excited. I enjoy hiking and taking in the beautiful outdoors that this world has to offer and feel that I want to record the wonderful moments for long term memory and to share my wonderful experiences with others. I imagine that I will start off with nature shots as I tend to really enjoy natural beauty.

Thank you to those that created a learning community and I'm excited to read more and learn from what this site and others have to say on this subject.

Steve

HELLO EVERYONE,
I am ANIKET from INDIA,country of beautiful colors.
I've just started learning fotografy basics.
:)
Plz help me in selecting camera type fas I am a ameture in fotografy!!!
Which is better CCD or CMOS...I am so much confused plz help..

Hello...everyone!! I am a new member and my name is Harris Choy. I hope this forum can help me to upgrade my photo techniques, and meet more friends/serious amateur around the world.

Nice to meet you all...Harris

Hi

I am a new member. My name is Gunnlaugur Gudmundsson. I'm from Iceland. Amateur photographer, been shooting digital since 2005... originally Canon, currently using Olympus E-M5... will post some pictures in the near future...

excited to be here, appreciate the opportunity to learn from you all...

best regards

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Just joined the forum and thought I'd share a little of my photography experience. Even though I took photography courses and did some of my own B&W darkroom work in college (early 1980's), I was mostly a point and shoot snapshot gal until we bought a cabin in Colorado in 2009. With all the wildlife literally walking up to my door, my interest in photography was renewed and I bought a DSLR (Canon XSi). I took refresher courses on the basics and now find myself signing up for photography tours and going places specifically for taking photographs. My main interests are wildlife, landscape and macro (to the extent I can manage without a macro lens).

This forum looks like a great resource and I look forward to participating and also getting feedback on my photos. It's really difficult to self evaluate when you are still learning what to look for. Thanks so much to the people who provide this great place to share ideas and learn!

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Hi Terri,

11 posts already :)

You must have found out how to do things, but if you have any questions, just ask.

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Originally Posted by Tripod

Hi my name is Steve and I live in Darwin - Northern Territory of Australia. I am a real novice with photography, but i am keen to learn how to capture the sorts of images being posted on this site. I can assure you I will be an avid reader of the posts to see what tips I can pick.

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Hi Steve,

I would urge you not just to be a reader; you will learn quicker if you ask us the specific questions that are perplexing you - the only daft question is the one nobody asks ;)

You'll find us very tolerant here (compared to some places on the web), so there's no need to fear being ridiculed or made fun of.

When I started here, I also found posting images for critique was another great way to learn.

How to Get Effective Feedback for your Posted Images is a thread devoted to making the most of that.

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Originally Posted by mountandshoot

Hey! my name is Cisco, i currently reside in East Bay Area California. I've been into photography for 7+ years now. I love learning. I actually signed up here with the hopes of learning and broadening my photography experience, and meeting/talking with new photographers, which is why i signed up :D So far im loving it here. I currently own a Canon 60D. and if you'd like to check out some of my images on Flickr, you can check here… feedback (positive or negative) is always greatly appreciated.

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Hi Cisco,

Welcome to the CiC forums from me, great to have another avid learner.

Start posting your images for critique, there's a link to a thread you may find useful in my reply to Steve immediate above.

All the best,

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Originally Posted by Leighh

Hello one and all, my name is Leigh and I'm from the UK, I have a Canon 40d soon to buy a 7D hopefully, been a keen photography for a number of years now, just starting to submit to microstock websites and looking to learn all I can, I will soon be posting some questions about IR photography, just waiting for the rain to stop so I can try my new ir720 filter ;)

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Hi Leigh,

Well, I can't guess from the weather where you are (in yUK), because it's been raining everywhere :D

By all means post your own questions (you may have already), but you might find the tag cloud link on Infra-red useful.

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Originally Posted by wnielson

Greetings everyone. My name is Bill, and live in Bandon, OR. A really good friend of mine who refers to himself as a "pixel nerd" got me interested in this great hobby. I' ve started off with a nikon 3100, 18-55 & 55-300 mm lenses. So much to learn, a little intimidating to tell you the truth. But I live in a great area on the Southern Oregon coast in which to learn.

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Hi Bill,

The knack to conquering the initimidating aspect is to tackle one problem at a time, I see you have a post count of 2 as I type this, so hopefully you are off to a good start.

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Originally Posted by ironmonkus

Greetings and Salutations,

My name is Steve and I'm currently residing in Utah. Photography has always been an interesting and captivating brain wave of mine for a hobby, but I've never taken the plunge until now.

I currently do not have a camera and am starting from ground zero with gear (currently researching to buy) and knowledge on this subject, so I'm pretty excited. I enjoy hiking and taking in the beautiful outdoors that this world has to offer and feel that I want to record the wonderful moments for long term memory and to share my wonderful experiences with others. I imagine that I will start off with nature shots as I tend to really enjoy natural beauty.

Thank you to those that created a learning community and I'm excited to read more and learn from what this site and others have to say on this subject.

Steve

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Hi Steve,

Given your interests, my advice would be don't go overboard with the equipment purchasing too soon. I survived for about a couple of years with a bridge camera - much cheaper and lighter (for hiking) than a full blown DSLR and several lenses.

That said, it does depend upon your intentions, if you intend to attempt to sell any images, a DSLR will probably be necessary, or at least a RAW shooting bridge camera - but I have possibly said too much already, so I'll pipe down and let you ask questions in the Digital Cameras & Equipment forum at your own pace.

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Originally Posted by bullian

HELLO EVERYONE,
I am ANIKET from INDIA,country of beautiful colors.
I've just started learning fotografy basics.
:)
Plz help me in selecting camera type fas I am a ameture in fotografy!!!
Which is better CCD or CMOS...I am so much confused plz help..

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Hi Aniket,

You really need to ask equipment choice questions in the Digital Cameras & Equipment forum.

You may get more useful advice if you shortlist which models you are considering with a budget figure because I wouldn't choose a camera based on which type of sensor it has, all other things being equal - they never are and the other things will likely be more important when you start using it than "CMOS or CCD".

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Originally Posted by Harris Choy

Hello...everyone!! I am a new member and my name is Harris Choy. I hope this forum can help me to upgrade my photo techniques, and meet more friends/serious amateur around the world.

Nice to meet you all...Harris

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Hi Harris,

Welcome to the CiC forums from me, great to have you join us.

I'm sure we can help in your quuest, all you have to do is keep asking questions and posting images for critique and we'll do the rest :)

All the best,

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Originally Posted by G Gudmundsson

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I am a new member. My name is Gunnlaugur Gudmundsson. I'm from Iceland. Amateur photographer, been shooting digital since 2005... originally Canon, currently using Olympus E-M5... will post some pictures in the near future...

excited to be here, appreciate the opportunity to learn from you all...

best regards

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Hi Gunnlauger,

I wonder if you are our first from your country?

I certainly look forward to seeing some of your pictures from Iceland, here's a link you may find useful; HELP THREAD: How can I post images here?

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