Introduce Yourself & Welcome Other Members (archive)

[Dave Humphries]

Hello, I am Draco from Beijing, China. I just bought my first DSLR Canon 500D last weakend. I have taken photos for two years with a Canon compact digital camera. I love photography and enjoy the feeling of creating exacting photos and sharing with others.
Actually my major is Image processing and one day I found the wonderful photography tutorials in this site. I want to learn more from this forum and all of you.

Best regards,
Draco

Hi Draco,

Welcome to the CiC forums from me, great to have you join us and I think you've already posted an image - good.

I'll wish you best regards and see you in the forums soon,

[Dave Humphries]

Hi, my name is Lauren and I came across this site looking for tutorials on digital photography. Although I've been taking pictures for a couple of years with an Olympus 35mm, I never learned how to take pictures with anything other than default settings. I just got a Kodak Z812 IS and would like to learn how to use some of the manual settings. I mostly take pictures of our cats when they let me. I also like to photograph wildlife.

Hi Lauren,

If you have any queries on manual, etc. just ask, and/or; post an image or two so we can provide constructive suggestions if need be.

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[Dave Humphries]

Hi,
I'm Leo, from Romania, and I've found this site looking after "photography tutorials". (btw, great work with those tutorials).
Subjects ? ....well... shoot everything ..like any enthusiastic amateur, but no weddings, and other related events ( and I'm not willing even in the future )
For the momment I have a Sony A200 with standard kit lenses (18-76 ; f/3.5-5.6), but I will upgade at the end of this year.

See you on forum,
Leo

Hi Leo,

Wise man (no weddings), thanks for the intro and I look forward to conversing in the forums with you soon.

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[Rafael]

Hi guys,

I'm too new to photography so I joined this forum to learn what to do and appreciate some well done work. I bought a D5000 last week but I'll only get it by the end of the month. Unfortunately, it is my first DSLR and I might don't even know how to handle it on the first weeks. It is unfortunate because I wish I had discovered photography earlier, it is too fascinating to let it pass by ones life!

Looking forward to learn great techniques here and to share my compositions with you and hope to get some feedback!

Rafael.

[Klickit]

Rafael, I think we all felt like that when we first really took to photography, so you are in good company. Please do post up some pix when you get the new camera - the people here are very friendly and offer good advice.

[Midnight]

well,hello!
hows going?
oh ok,you can call me Al
I have many hobbies like drawing,reading,writing (short stories),photography,playing some sports..
and I like learning about new stuff
I don't like to be stuck in one thing!

I fail in making introduction about myself lol
umm anything you want to know about me just ask

[Klickit]

Hi Al, and welcome.

What sorts of things do you enjoy photographing, or are you an anything goes sort of person? Feel free to post some pix in the forum - we like to see new stuff by new people.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi guys,

I'm too new to photography so I joined this forum to learn what to do and appreciate some well done work. I bought a D5000 last week but I'll only get it by the end of the month. Unfortunately, it is my first DSLR and I might don't even know how to handle it on the first weeks. It is unfortunate because I wish I had discovered photography earlier, it is too fascinating to let it pass by ones life!

Looking forward to learn great techniques here and to share my compositions with you and hope to get some feedback!

Rafael.

Hi Rafael,

Welcome to the CiC forums from me, great to have another fellow D5000 owner in our community.

If you are very new to photography, I would suggest you:
start with the camera set to Auto,
get out and photograph things,
post the results here for critique,
complete with a few words from yourself about what you were trying to achieve and/or how it did or didn't turn out how you expected or wanted.

Then we can advise what to change (not too much at once) to get a better result for that subject next time. It helps if you have something available to photograph regularly without going on special trips; e.g. pets, family members, flowers, etc.

Later on, we can progress you to Program mode when you have more of a feel for the effects of shutter speed vs aperture for the subject in front of the lens, then into either Aperture or Shutter Priority. You'll know yourself when it is time to go Manual mode.

Personally I would advise against using scene modes if you want to learn about photography - they change too many things behind the scenes in subtle ways and it'll just make learning more difficult.

Do read the tutorials and techniques here for some essential background theory. You can start on these before the camera arrives.

Hope that helps,

[Dave Humphries]

well,hello!
hows going?
oh ok,you can call me Al
I have many hobbies like drawing,reading,writing (short stories),photography,playing some sports..
and I like learning about new stuff
I don't like to be stuck in one thing!

I fail in making introduction about myself lol
umm anything you want to know about me just ask

Hi Al,

Well I got past the first booby trap you set for me; I didn't say "Hi you can call me Al"

I apologise for my warped sense of humour (well that's what I call it).

OK, a challenge; 'ask a question': (Hmm, I don't want to repeat Kit's question, that'd make me look stoopid) ah, I know; what camera and lens(es) do you have?

Lots of hobbies there, how'd you find the time?

Anyway, sports is good, you can photograph when not partaking yourself.

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[brandyknvb]

Sorry for the late reply guys. Thanks for all the continued advice. I'm purchasing the Camera very very soon Exciting times. I will start threads and show some photos when I've got it.

So yeah cheers

Josh.

[SDChester]

Hi All! I'm New England photogragher wo was a hold out to film untill a year ago,Still learning digital but love not printing all those lame images! so nice to just delete.Hope to learn from all of you.

[mseremet]

Hi,
I like to read about photography.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi All! I'm New England photogragher wo was a hold out to film untill a year ago, Still learning digital but love not printing all those lame images! so nice to just delete. Hope to learn from all of you.

Hi there,

Welcome to the CiC forums from me, it is great to have another convert.

I won't embarrass myself by revealing my shooting to keepers ratio, but let's just say I am no stranger to using the delete key on camera or emptying the Recycle Bin on the computer

What are you shooting with digital-wise?

The best way to learn is to join in, so I hope we see some pictures from you soon - just start a new thread in the most appropriate forum, or enter one of the Mini Competitions, we have three flavours; vanilla (no theme), Action Shots or Monochrome.

One last thing, is there a first name we could use?

Thanks,

[Dave Humphries]

Hi,
I like to read about photography.

Hi there,

Don't just read about it, do it, share it (here at CiC of course), I promise you'll learn more that way.

Could I ask for a first name we could use? Thanks.

By coincidence, my daughter and boyfriend just had a nice holiday in Turkey, not Istanbul though.

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[stripe]

Hello Everyone,

Another new poster here, this seems like a great community for photographers. I received a D5000 last Christmas as a gift, and have been doing my best to learn the ins and outs of digital photography since then.

A bit about me - I am a graduate student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada studying aerospace engineering. I am a big hockey fan (and a fan of many other sports). Lately however, photography has been my main hobby. One of the main reasons I have started getting into photography is that I am going to be traveling to Tanzania and South Africa in August, and I want to be able to document my trip nicely (i.e. better than I could do with a point and shoot). I am going to be attempting Mount Kilimanjaro, so that should provide quite a few worth while photo ops.

I have read "Nikon D5000 for Dummies" which has given me a fairly good overview of the capabilities of my D5000. I have already stopped using the fully automatic modes, which I am actually quite proud of!

I just got a copy of Photoshop, and have been playing with the trial of photomatix for post processing. I really like the HDR effect and find post processing quite enjoyable. Here is one of my favorites I have done:



Edit: This is not a true HDR - when I was first using my camera I happened to be shooting in JPEG fine + Raw mode, so I just grabbed the raw and adjusted the exposure to make this pseudo-HDR image.

Excuse the watermarks... I have not invested in a software liscence yet (poor student). Let me know what you think!

Glad to be here.

Matt

[Dave Humphries]

Hello Everyone,

Another new poster here, this seems like a great community for photographers. I received a D5000 last Christmas as a gift, and have been doing my best to learn the ins and outs of digital photography since then.

A bit about me - I am a graduate student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada studying aerospace engineering. I am a big hockey fan (and a fan of many other sports). Lately however, photography has been my main hobby. One of the main reasons I have started getting into photography is that I am going to be traveling to Tanzania and South Africa in August, and I want to be able to document my trip nicely (i.e. better than I could do with a point and shoot). I am going to be attempting Mount Kilimanjaro, so that should provide quite a few worth while photo ops.

I have read "Nikon D5000 for Dummies" which has given me a fairly good overview of the capabilities of my D5000. I have already stopped using the fully automatic modes, which I am actually quite proud of!

I just got a copy of Photoshop, and have been playing with the trial of photomatix for post processing. I really like the HDR effect and find post processing quite enjoyable. Here is one of my favorites I have done:



Edit: This is not a true HDR - when I was first using my camera I happened to be shooting in JPEG fine + Raw mode, so I just grabbed the raw and adjusted the exposure to make this pseudo-HDR image.

Excuse the watermarks... I have not invested in a software liscence yet (poor student). Let me know what you think!

Glad to be here.

Matt

Hi Matt,

Good intro post, glad to have you join us (and another D5000 owner).

I hope the trip goes well - what an opportunity, if I were your age, I'd be jealous.

What lens(es) do you have?

You might want to post the picture in the HDR forum too for more specific replies, not everyone reads this thread.

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[stripe]

Hi Matt,

Good intro post, glad to have you join us (and another D5000 owner).

I hope the trip goes well - what an opportunity, if I were your age, I'd be jealous.

What lens(es) do you have?

You might want to post the picture in the HDR forum too for more specific replies, not everyone reads this thread.

Welcome to the CiC forums from ...

At the moment I only have the kit lens for the D5000 (Nikkor AF-S 18-55mm). Have been contemplating whether my next should be a macro or a telephoto?

[Dave Humphries]

At the moment I only have the kit lens for the D5000 (Nikkor AF-S 18-55mm). Have been contemplating whether my next should be a macro or a telephoto?

Hi Matt,

For what you have upcoming, unless you intend to take time photographing plants and insects on your travels, I'd suggest a telephoto, be sure to get "AF-S" for Auto Focus on the D5000 though.

Probably a good idea to start this as a new question thread in DSLR cameras forum, rather than get too involved here. There has been much discussion on this recently, including my own agonising over it a couple of months ago (and I got both in the end )

Cheers,

[jsherp]

I live in Central Illinois and have been into photography for over 40 years. I started with an Argus C-3 w/ 100mm lens back before they invented dirt. I fell in love with photography because of the magic I could work in the darkroom. If I could have had someone else out taking the pics and bring me the film, I would have been very happy.

I was semi-pro for a while, shooting portraits and weddings and making a pretty good part-time income from it, but got out of photography until just last year. While my son was deployed in Afghanistan, he picked up a DSLR and took some great pictures of the countryside and the people he met while there. When he got home, he suggested we do a "Man-trip", traveling the 469 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway. We stopped at every overlook; went up every side trail; and shot more pictures in two weeks than I would have shot in a year back when I had to buy film. Digital photography has sure changed the face of photography.

I have a Canon Powershot SX20is, and a Nikon D5000 w/ 18-55mm f/3.5, 55-200mm f/4, and a 35mm f/1.4 lenses. I take pictures of anything and everything. During the winter, I do a lot of macro work, keeping the local florist in business, and when the weather is fit, I am out doing sunrises, sunsets, landscapes, street scenes, people, pets, and anything else that gets in the way of my lens.

By the way, I tend to be a little long-winded!

[Donald]

By the way, I tend to be a little long-winded!

Oh, there's a lot of them about in here!!

Welcome, John. Great to have you on board and hopefully you find it engaging enough to make you want to stick around. That's a beautifully worded potted-history of your love affair with photography and captures what it is about it that grabs us and doesn't let go, even if we've been away from it for a while.