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A very sunny Hello from Perth, Australia!!!! My name is Liziel and it is nice to be here on this site!
I’m originally from Toronto, Canada and I do miss it at times but currently they are knee deep in winter and I’m not missing it at all!!!! The snow, the shovelling of it, the driving through it, in it and around it, is what I’m not missing whatsoever. I’ve been able to come over here and take up photography. What a better place than to document my experiences through a camera and be able to display them here on this site. The views are breathtaking and the sun is endless. The beaches are spectacular and the wildlife is completely different to North American animals and fauna. I’ve entered a whole new hemisphere complete with it’s own new culture and sub-culture that I’ve had to learn (aussies have this thing with corecting the way I say french fries and ketchup and tomato...its supposed to be chips, tomato sauce and "toe-mat-toe)

I’m surrounded by wineries, sheep, cattle and paddocks upon paddocks. I would have to say this is a photographer’s heaven for creative picture taking.


Looking forward to catching up on this forum and reading all the valuable information everyone has to offer.


Liziel

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Originally Posted by liziel

A very sunny Hello from Perth, Australia!!!! My name is Liziel and it is nice to be here on this site!
I’m originally from Toronto, Canada and I do miss it at times but currently they are knee deep in winter and I’m not missing it at all!!!! The snow, the shovelling of it, the driving through it, in it and around it, is what I’m not missing whatsoever. I’ve been able to come over here and take up photography. What a better place than to document my experiences through a camera and be able to display them here on this site. The views are breathtaking and the sun is endless. The beaches are spectacular and the wildlife is completely different to North American animals and fauna. I’ve entered a whole new hemisphere complete with it’s own new culture and sub-culture that I’ve had to learn (aussies have this thing with corecting the way I say french fries and ketchup and tomato...its supposed to be chips, tomato sauce and "toe-mat-toe)

I’m surrounded by wineries, sheep, cattle and paddocks upon paddocks. I would have to say this is a photographer’s heaven for creative picture taking.


Looking forward to catching up on this forum and reading all the valuable information everyone has to offer.


Liziel

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Hi and welcome to Oz. from me - all the way from Victoria. Australia.

I am looking forward to seeing your takes of our country.
Now as a 70+ Aussie with loads of photo experience, I am a little tired of snow scenes, mountain streams, coloured autumn leaves, churches and dark dark scenes. BTW my wife is from Richmond, B.C. and she misses the cooler weather.
Write here anytime. grnfields@bigpond.com
Noel

Hi from kranthi (India)

I've just spent some time looking at these website and its simply fantastic and so informative. I look forward to learning and enhancing my basic photographic skills.

kranthi

Hi, Kranthi.

Welcome to the CiC. I am sure you will enjoy your stay here and learn (& impart) a lot.

Hi Kranthi,

Welcome to the CiC. this is great Website, with very knowledgeable members, and always ready to help other members. Hope you will enjoy here and definately will learn something.

Why hello,

Surfing on the internet I have found this remarkable and very useful site.
So I just joined your community.
I own 2 Nikon DSLR's (D100 & D2x) and a set of nikor lenses (AFS 80-200/2.8, AFS 24-85/3.5-4, AF 50/1.8, AF macro 105/2.8) combined with my SB-80DX flash (and a Kenko 2x converter).
My main interest is shooting everything that's worth shooting, variing from landscape and animals, to everyday situations from a different point of view.....

At this moment I'm still having trouble to get "the famous super sharp" nikon images out of my D2x (combined with the 25-85). But maybe I'm to precise and not easy satisfied.....

Hpoing to have a lot of fun on this forum.

Greetings, Jeroen

Hi there from sunny South Australia. Love your site and find the welcoming and non judgmental attitude very refreshing. Also great info in the Tutorials and interesting threads. My reason for joining is simply a thirst for knowledge.
I started off photography with Kodak Slide film when I was a teenager. It remained an absorbing on and off hobby until the mid nineties when I started out professionally doing weddings, children’s portraits, some commercial brochure work and some stock.
I did this until the end of film’s popularity when everyone insisted on digital capture.
Because of Digital SLR camera prices in those days, it was difficult for most photographers to afford to replace their film cameras and so I made a change away from pro photography.
Now I want to do my own thing and Landscapes are my main interest. A year ago I invested in a Nikon D90 to match my lenses. However in all this time I neglected to learn image editing and so I have been playing catch up ever since trying to get to grips with CS2.
I have never posted anything on a site in my life before but I may be taking the plunge here soon asking plenty of questions which don’t seem to be in most books or tutorials.
I look forward to ‘meeting’ everyone soon. Bear with me, I’m new to forums!
Cheers
Simon
P.S. My user name is an anagram of what most people would like to have in life. And when I am not a photographer I am a woodworker as so many woodworkers/photographers are. I wonder why?

Welcome; I like to see professional photographers so I can pick your brains. In a nice way of course. This is by far the most superior site for learning since everything in the tutorials is clearly written by someone who knows a bit and I hope you enjoy your stay. :)

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Originally Posted by BollenJ

At this moment I'm still having trouble to get "the famous super sharp" nikon images out of my D2x (combined with the 25-85). But maybe I'm to precise and not easy satisfied.....

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Hi Jeroen,

9 times out of 10 the problem lies with sub-optimal sharpening workflow. If you're interested, we've had a few discussions on it in the past here.

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Originally Posted by Cuban Dane

I have never posted anything on a site in my life before but I may be taking the plunge here soon asking plenty of questions which don’t seem to be in most books or tutorials.

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Hi Simon,

I hope you do jump in with lots of questions - it's what helps grow our community, and helps others in months and years to come too :)

In my case I'm "into" photography and woodworking ... probably because I need to make the internal frames for my canvas prints! ... so perhaps that partly solves the riddle?

Hi all, I very recently bought my first DSLR, a Canon EOS 500D and I'm having lots of fun with it so far. I've been reading some of the excellent tutorials provided on this website and I now wanted to check out the forums. I'm looking to learn a lot and hopefully find some good advice in terms of pieces of equipment (the "ask owners before you buy" principle).. I need to get a tripod soon, and will probably want to expand my lens collection beyond the kit-lenses at some point in the near future. I'm sure I'll learn lots.

If you want to check my pics out, I've included my Flickr page as my website.

Alex

Hi from New Braunfels, Texas.

I've always loved and admired the simple and concise Cambridge In Colour digital imaging tutorials. I've often linked to them on other web forums for the past six years posting in photography sites that I decided to become a participating member and register once I found CIC had a forum which was just yesterday.

Seriously, those tutorials are phenomenal.

I'm a hobbyist photographer focusing on fine art landscapes and nature abstracts. Been a self taught working graphic artist/prepress production tech since 1980 and switched to digital imaging once I got my first taste of Photoshop teaching myself image restoration, colour management and computer management starting in 1997 and haven't looked back since.

I look forward to participating here in hopes of further learning and sharing information on the subject of digital imaging and photography which continually fascinates me going on ten years now.

I guess this Texan is going to have to get used to spelling 'Color' with a 'U'. I think I can handle that.

Tim

Hi everybody, greetings from Poland.
I recently got my very first dslr and started exploring photography. In the past month I've read dozens of articles on technique, composition and postprocessing, but none of them were as informative and professional as this site! I'm looking forward to posting my photos and getting some critique, too bad weather doesn't allow me to go outside as often as I would like ( mostly rain and everything is dirty from melting snow...).

Paweł (Paul, but in Polish ;)

Welcome Pawel,

You'd be surprised at the images you can get from tracks in the snow.

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Originally Posted by Pawel

Hi everybody, greetings from Poland.
I recently got my very first dslr and started exploring photography. In the past month I've read dozens of articles on technique, composition and postprocessing, but none of them were as informative and professional as this site! I'm looking forward to posting my photos and getting some critique, too bad weather doesn't allow me to go outside as often as I would like ( mostly rain and everything is dirty from melting snow...).

Paweł (Paul, but in Polish ;)

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Hi everyone,
I have recently received a Canon EOS 500D and am learning slowly all its functions. I've taken several photos that I think are pretty good but would like other opinions. I'm hoping this forum will pass on some valuable tips for a beginner. Look forward to being a part of it all.
Regards,
Kerry

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Originally Posted by Kerry

Hi everyone,
I have recently received a Canon EOS 500D and am learning slowly all its functions. I've taken several photos that I think are pretty good but would like other opinions. I'm hoping this forum will pass on some valuable tips for a beginner. Look forward to being a part of it all.
Regards,
Kerry

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Hi Kerry,

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

We'd love to see some pictures, you may find this thread helpful:
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/thread3571.htm

Just use that and post in a new thread in the appropriate forum (but if you get it wrong, Colin or I can soon fix it).

Is it just the kit lens you have with the 500D?

Best regards,

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Originally Posted by Pawel

Hi everybody, greetings from Poland.
I recently got my very first dslr and started exploring photography. In the past month I've read dozens of articles on technique, composition and postprocessing, but none of them were as informative and professional as this site! I'm looking forward to posting my photos and getting some critique, too bad weather doesn't allow me to go outside as often as I would like ( mostly rain and everything is dirty from melting snow...).

Paweł (Paul, but in Polish ;)

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Hi Pawel,

Thanks for the pronunciation tip :) it does make my life easier!
Great to have you join our band and good to see you've jumped right in and got to double figures so soon.

What are you shooting with?

Welcome to the CiC forums from ...

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Originally Posted by Tim Lookingbill

Hi from New Braunfels, Texas.

I've always loved and admired the simple and concise Cambridge In Colour digital imaging tutorials. I've often linked to them on other web forums for the past six years posting in photography sites that I decided to become a participating member and register once I found CIC had a forum which was just yesterday.

Seriously, those tutorials are phenomenal.

I'm a hobbyist photographer focusing on fine art landscapes and nature abstracts. Been a self taught working graphic artist/prepress production tech since 1980 and switched to digital imaging once I got my first taste of Photoshop teaching myself image restoration, colour management and computer management starting in 1997 and haven't looked back since.

I look forward to participating here in hopes of further learning and sharing information on the subject of digital imaging and photography which continually fascinates me going on ten years now.

I guess this Texan is going to have to get used to spelling 'Color' with a 'U'. I think I can handle that.

Tim

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Hi Tim,

Welcome to the CiC forums from me.

It's good of you to make the effort with the "u", but we won't hold it against you if you lapse, and forget, once in a while ;):D

I can only echo your views on the tutorials, I feel very lucky to be part of CiC and learn from Sean (McQ).

What sort of kit are you shooting with?

Cheers,

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Originally Posted by Mlkv

Hi all, I very recently bought my first DSLR, a Canon EOS 500D and I'm having lots of fun with it so far. I've been reading some of the excellent tutorials provided on this website and I now wanted to check out the forums. I'm looking to learn a lot and hopefully find some good advice in terms of pieces of equipment (the "ask owners before you buy" principle).. I need to get a tripod soon, and will probably want to expand my lens collection beyond the kit-lenses at some point in the near future. I'm sure I'll learn lots.

If you want to check my pics out, I've included my Flickr page as my website.

Alex

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Hi Alex,

Welcome to the CiC forums from me.

Well, I had a look at your pics on Flickr - a small but good quality collection - but I bet the shoe was inedible ;)

The 500D is proving a popular camera and this is as good a place as any to learn.
It sounds like you got a two lens kit, which were they?

Look forward to hearing and seeing more from you, where ever you are?

Cheers,