Introduce Yourself & Welcome Other Members (archive)

[ELLIOT]

I have been moving around all the information on this site and it's most certainly extensive and highly educational. I run a company in Virginia USA called Blue Ridge Workshops teaching our students photography and all things related. I worked for Nikon for 33 years as a tech and sales representative, a few months in retail??? and then started my company. There are currently 7 instructors, all excellent. We publish a monthly news letter, and intend to link all of our readers to this site. It is one of the most educational that I have seen.

Elliot

[Donald]

I have been moving around all the information on this site and it's most certainly extensive and highly educational.

Elliot

Delighted to read your post and the praise it contains for CiC. I hope your students will take your suggestion that they link up to the site. And also that you become involved and share the massive body of knowledge that you have about photography.

We're a relatively small but happy bunch out here in our little corner of cyberspace.

[travvie]

Hello, I came across this site yesterday and was impressed, so here I am. I live in London and have always been strongly affected by architecture - maybe because it's frozen music, which is my work. My father was a dedicated hobby photographer and his lovely 1960s cameras, lenses and light meters left me with a love of the kit (he never tried to teach me, though). I took a lot of analogue snaps in my 20s as a tourist and then stopped. An old urge to record buildings and streets has now reasserted itself and won't go away. I'm totally pro-digital in other domains (sound, text) but my recent digital pictures (P&S and bridge cameras) have mostly been dire. The one below was taken early evening in a very tree-shaded street at ISO 400, 1/25 second, f3.6. I find it dull, dark and badly framed (I've cropped it but the chopped RH end is original...).



So I'm on a mission to learn, understand, harness and, I hope, enjoy the medium instead of just getting frustrated. Haven't bought a DSLR yet: wondering whether to buy a Canon body for my old lenses (EF 35-70mm 1:3.4-4.5, EF 70-120mm 1:4) and one day, when I can afford it, a TS-E, or get something cheapish like a Lumix DMC-L10K with what I gather is its very good kit lens (very broke at the minute!). Any advice gratefully received! All the best, Nick

[Donald]

Hello, I came across this site yesterday and was impressed, so here I am.
So I'm on a mission to learn, understand, harness and, I hope, enjoy the medium instead of just getting frustrated. Haven't bought a DSLR yet: wondering whether to buy a Canon body for my old lenses (EF 35-70mm 1:3.4-4.5, EF 70-120mm 1:4) and one day, when I can afford it, a TS-E, or get something cheapish like a Lumix DMC-L10K with what I gather is its very good kit lens (very broke at the minute!). Any advice gratefully received! All the best, Nick

Nick - Hello and welcome. Glad you've decided to 'sign up'. The idea certainly is that the tutorials and the forum act as two parts of the same thing - a resource that helps people develop knowledge and skills and which is approachable and fun. Hopefully you will already have seen that no-one stands on ceremony around here and an awful lot of people are more than happy to offer support and advice.

You could, if you wished, copy that last part of your post into a new post in the Digital Cameras and Equipment section of the forum, where it might attract more responses. There are a few Lumix users on here whose enthusiasm for the camera is matched by the quality of the work they produce with it. So, it's definitely an option.

[chris chin]

hi im chris from singapore

[Donald]

hi im chris from singapore

Hello Chris. Welcome to CiC.

Did you know you can go to Edit Profile and enter your location (city etc) under 'Location'. Then it will appear underneath your Username in all your posts and so folks will know where you are.

You don't say what you existing level of experience and/or particular photographic interests are. If you have any questions about photography, then there will always be someone on here willing to help provide the answer. I look forward to seeing some of your work.

[nimitzbenedicto]

Mabuhay ! Hello everybody,

Feel happy I found this terrific photo website. ( discovered Colin Southern's Portrait tutorial while googling for portraits. )

Hope to learn from you guys.

DSLR newbie here. just got my 1st ever dslr 5 weeks ago.

Maraming Salamat po.
( Thank you very much.)

Mitz

[jasmmet]

Hi, i m new here. i join this forum today.i want to join this forums to talk about the Photo to painting .
Welcome to All new members who join this forums after me.
thanks to Admin who give me permission to posting my post.
Thanks.

[Donald]

Feel happy I found this terrific photo website. ( discovered Colin Southern's Portrait tutorial while googling Mitz

Mitz

Hello and welcome. Glad you managed to find us.

Did you know you can edit yoru profile and insert both your name and your location, so that they will appear alongside all of your posts. We tend to use first names on here as it's much more friendly, and it's good to know where in thw world people are.

I hope you are finding Colin's portrait tutorials helpful.

[Donald]

Hi, i m new here. i join this forum today.i want to join this forums to talk about the Photo to painting .
Welcome to All new members who join this forums after me.
thanks to Admin who give me permission to posting my post.
Thanks.

Hello and welcome to CiC.

You can go to Edit Profile and enter your location (city etc) under 'Location'. Then it will appear underneath your Username in all your posts and so folks will know where you are.

What sort of things do you like to photograph?

[mav]

Hello everyone!
My name is Michael and I am pleased to be a member of this forum. Currently I own a Canon 4000IS, but am looking to upgrade to a dslr very soon. I joined to learn more about photography and to make sure I get a good start. Perhaps I will make a post about what I am considering shortly.
All the best
Michael

[Donald]

Michael - A very warm welcome to CiC. I hope you feel that CiC is the ideal forum to help you learn more about photography. Certainly that is a primary purpose of both the tutorials and this forum.

So, please do join in and if you have any questions, just go ahead and ask them.

[vimalknatarajan]

Hello

I am Vimal and a newbie around here(live in Portland, OR - USA) - Just happened to stumble through this site/forum and was surprised to see the activity level in the forum. I am a beginner level DSLR user and looking to learn and gather tips/feedback from you all here.

Cheers !

[Donald]

I am Vimal and a newbie around here(live in Portland, OR - USA) -

Vimal - Hello and Welcome.

I'm glad you liked what you saw when you found the forum. As well as there being a lot of activity, I hope you find that it's generally well informed, constructive discussion that is very much aimed towards helping people develop their knowledge and skills.

So, if you have questions that you want answered or queries that you want to explore in more detail - this is the place. And, of course, we'd like to see some of your images.

[leo de warem]

Hi,

My name is Leo and I'm from the Netherlands. I'm 56 years old and photography is my passion for 40 years. Found this website by Google, searching for information, and I liked it a lot!.

I like different kinds of styles like people, landscape, architecture, animals and since a while I'm working with models. So don't expect me to be an expert on a specific topic! I'm trying to have the best results by learning and practicing, giving my best shot (literally and figurative ) I'm an complete autodidact, and therefore always open for constructive critics. I've not find my way around here yet, but I hope to do so in a while.

Hope to speak you soon!

Kind Regards, Leo

http://www.images4thoughts.nl/

[silenttortoise]

My name is Sergio.
I presently live in Thessaloniki, Greece.
I have been taking photographs since 1980, on and off.
More off than on.
I am originally from London.

[Donald]

My name is Leo a ... I'm 56 years old

That makes two of us.

Welcome, Leo. I hope you've seen that CiC is very much a forum that seeks to provide support and advice to people to help them improve their photography. I hope you will feel able to share all that experience, as well as continuing to enjoy being part of this community.

[Donald]

My name is Sergio. I presently live in Thessaloniki, Greece.

A very warm welcome, Sergio.

Hopefully being part of CiC will help switch the balance more to 'on' than 'off'.

[rswarrior]

Hi! My name is Randy I am a new member and also a new member of the half century club! I have been shooting pictures for 25+ years and LOVE all types of photography. I have shot everything from weddings to funerals and everything (almost) in between. I enjoy CiC quite a bit and also at this point am joining my father here as a member. Hope to continue learning and enjoying from all your members.

[fortanzeel]

Hello, Everyone my name is Tanzeel and i'm from Pakistan. I'm Doing my bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. Photography is one of my main interests and I've been photographing since 1.5 years now. I started photography from a VGA mobile camera, upgraded to 1.3 mp Mobile camera to a 2 Mp mobile camera.. and finally bought a Semi Pro Digital Camera 5 months ago... now I've been running a Page on Facebook which has over 500 fans... you can check out my Work there...
Thank u
Tanzeel Khan
www.facebook.com/taz.photos