Introduce Yourself & Welcome Other Members (archive)

[davidedric]

Hola mi nombre es Andrea

Hola y bienvenido, Andrea. Donde estas en el mundo? (lo siento, no puedo encontrar los acentos en mi teclado)

Es posible, si quieres, para actualizar tu descripcion (perfil) con tu nombre y tu lugar.

Dave

[chinino]

Hi Guys, glad to be here. I have been clicking and taking pictures for a while, but have never been a serious amateur photographer. This year, I want to start this as a hobby and learn as much as I can to get the best pictures possible for me. I have a Nikon D60 and a D300s with about 5 different lenses:

AF-S 18-200 3.5-5.6 GII ED
AF-S 55-200 1.4-5.6G ED
AF-S 18-55 3.5-5.6G
AF-S 70-300 4.5-5.6G
Tokina AT-X Pro SD 12-24 F4 (IF) DX

[JPS]

Hi Guys, glad to be here. I have been clicking and taking pictures for a while, but have never been a serious amateur photographer. This year, I want to start this as a hobby and learn as much as I can to get the best pictures possible for me. I have a Nikon D60 and a D300s with about 5 different lenses:

AF-S 18-200 3.5-5.6 GII ED
AF-S 55-200 1.4-5.6G ED
AF-S 18-55 3.5-5.6G
AF-S 70-300 4.5-5.6G
Tokina AT-X Pro SD 12-24 F4 (IF) DX

Hi Luis,
Welcome to CiC, it's great to have you join us.
You appear to have a fair bit of kit, so hopefully the tutorials and the forum will help you progress in your hobby.
I look forward to seeing your pictures and talking to further.
Kind regards
John

[chinino]

Hi Luis,
Welcome to CiC, it's great to have you join us.
You appear to have a fair bit of kit, so hopefully the tutorials and the forum will help you progress in your hobby.
I look forward to seeing your pictures and talking to further.
Kind regards
John

Thanks, JPS. It is a very nice web site, lots of cool and interesting stuff.

[msmith4102]

Hi everyone my name is Mary from ny usa. I just found this sight and it has a lot of great advice. I am completely new to photography and spending a lot of time on line to learn. I just purchased a Canon T2i and trying to learn how to take pictures of my grandchildren. Once I figure out how to post pictures I will look forward to advice. I did go on the help forum but still can not figure it out. I am sure I will get it sooner or later.

See you around the forum
Mary

[JPS]

Hi everyone my name is Mary from ny usa. I just found this sight and it has a lot of great advice. I am completely new to photography and spending a lot of time on line to learn. I just purchased a Canon T2i and trying to learn how to take pictures of my grandchildren. Once I figure out how to post pictures I will look forward to advice. I did go on the help forum but still can not figure it out. I am sure I will get it sooner or later.

See you around the forum
Mary

Hi Mary,
Welcome to CiC, thank you for joining.
This is a great site to learn and the tutorials will be a great help to you; I'm sure.
If you look at the link below it shows you how to post your pictures onto the site, I hope it is of some help.
I look forward to seeing your work and talking to you further over the coming weeks.

Here the link related to posting your pictures.... HELP THREAD: How can I post images here?

Kind regards
John

[mauriceone]

Hello everyone, I'm Maurice. Retired and well into my seventies now, I've recently decided to revive my interest in portraiture in the style I was taught in the 1950s as an apprentice photographer and college student. There are some problems to solve, particularly with the lighting and, in fact, I've decided to make the lights myself to suit smaller rooms. My printer, a Canon Pro9000 II, I've discovered, is not much good at making monochrome prints which I need to evoke the flavour of the age. I've looked at duotones on PhotoShop. Maybe it will help but it's hard work. Just received a Lyson Ink kit. Maybe that will help too. Yet to be fitted though. Any thoughts on this monochrome problem with the Canon printer would be appreciated. I'm also looking at the latest Sigma "portrait" lens 85mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM. Any one used it yet?

Guess I'm something of a rebel. I own two Sigma dSLR cameras :-)

When the portraits begin to role, I'll post some.

In parting, for the moment I hope, let me ask you what is the most important and relatively recent innovation for the ancient photographer? For shaking hands it has to be image stabilisation.

Best wishes all

[shashank2012]

hello i am shashank phadke from mumbai.i started photography last year by point and shoot camera.i join to this community to learn more about photography

[SirBismuth]

Hi All,

Greetings from South Africa, currently not so sunny, but the rain is indeed welcome.

I currently have a Pentax Z-20 35mm SLR and some lenses (Pentax FA SMC 4.5-5.6 100-300mm, Pentax-F SMC 4.7-5.6 80-200mm, Sigma Aspherical 3.5-5.6 28-80mm MACRO, Imado 2x Auto Teleconvertor). I am finally getting a DSLR, a Pentax K30 w/DA 18-135mm ED AL (IF) DC WR Zoom Lens. I wanted a WR setup to give me some flexibility in less than ideal weather conditions. There are a number of accessories and lenses I want to add here as finances allow, to complete my setup. I am primarily, but not exclusively, interested in nature/wildlife and landscape photography.

I am definitely going to make use of the tutorials here, esp. the ones specific to digital like PP workflow and the likes.

B

[Donald]

In parting, for the moment I hope, let me ask you what is the most important and relatively recent innovation for the ancient photographer? For shaking hands it has to be image stabilisation.

Old fiddles play the best tunes, Maurice!

A very warm welcome to CiC. Glad you found us and decided to join. I think you'll find there is a very healthy contingent of 'mature' members.

By the way - If you wish you can go to Edit Profile and put in your location, so that it appears in the sidebar alongside your message, just like mine beside this message. Then everybody knows where everybody else is.

If you ever need any help in getting images posted into your message, then please do read the helpful guide that walks you through how to do it. Click HERE to read the thread.

[Donald]

hello i am shashank phadke from mumbai.i started photography last year by point and shoot camera.i join to this community to learn more about photography

Welcome, Shashank. Thank you for joining CiC.

I hope that by being part of this forum, you will be able to increase your photographic knowledge and skills. Many people on here are very willing to to share their experience in order to help others learn, so please do ask questions and join in discussions.

By the way - If you wish you can go to Edit Profile and put in your location, so that it appears in the sidebar alongside your message, just like mine beside this message. Then everybody knows where everybody else is.

[Donald]

Greetings from South Africa, currently not so sunny, but the rain is indeed welcome.

Up here it's all about snow and ice at the moment.

Hello Douglas and welcome.

I hope that being part of the forum adds to the overall usefulness of the site as a learning resource. The whole idea behind CiC is about being a place where people can learn and develop knowledge and skills, as well as sharing thoughts and ideas within a worldwide community of fellow enthusiasts.

[RichieFazz]

Hi All, I am Richard from Sunny Bury St Edmunds! I hadn't been doing any photography other than point and click, until my good lady got me a Coolpix L120 in 2011... then seriously got the bug I have just got myself a Nikon D5100 (only with kit lenses at the moment) but now on quest to learn and improve.

I love Macros / Close-up and Portraits, although to be honest i will photograph anything as my ever filling HDD can attest too

I use Lightroom 4 for any post work.

Cheers

Rich

[davidedric]

Hi Rich and welcome on board,

Sunny Bury St Edmunds

Me thinks that sunny Bury is a bit white right now

Learning and improving is what this community is all about - you'll always get helpful and constructive feedback here. Have a look at the tutorials too - they are excellent. (And thanks for completing your profile!)

Looking forward to seeing some of your images in one of the forums before long,

All the best,

Dave

[RichieFazz]

Me thinks that sunny Bury is a bit white right now

You are not wrong there Hoping to get out and do some shots tomorrow hoping although i wish Suffolk had the hills Cheshire does (Nantwich-man born and Bred)

Thanks very much for the welcome Dave and I am hoping to put a handful of pics up later in an Album

Cheers

Rich

[fblevins]

Hi, I am Freddie and I am new to photography. I have been shooting for only about a year now but I love learning and shooting.
I live in North Carolina, USA.

[Donald]

Hi, I am Freddie and I am new to photography. I have been shooting for only about a year now but I love learning and shooting.
I live in North Carolina, USA.

Freddie - It's great to have you here. thank you for joining.

I very much hope that you enjoy being part of CiC and that you find it helps you improve your photographic knowledge and skills. Just remember - if you have a questions and don't ask it, you miss out. People on here will always be happy to try and help and advise.

[Aarjoona]

Hiya

I found this site whilst trying to research lenses. I am hankering after a fisheye and have read so many reviews that I m now utterly confused! So if anyone out there wants to confuse me even more about which lens I should go for - then opinions welcome. I mostly take macro photography but fancy a radical change!

[Donald]

I found this site whilst trying to research lenses.

Hello and a very warm welcome to CiC. I'm very glad you found us and I hope you find enough on here to hold your interest and make you want to stay involved in the forum.

There are a couple of things you should do to get the sort of information you need:

1. Type 'Fisheye' into the search window up near the top left of the page
2. Post up a specific question in the Digital Cameras & Equipment section of the forum. More people are likely to see it than will notice it here.

By the way, so that you don't continue to get people asking you what your proper name is, because most us use that on here, you can go to Edit Profile and enter your proper name under 'Real Name'. Then it will appear underneath your Username in all your posts. You can also enter your location so that it does the same, just as in my details alongside this message. Then we all know where everyone is in the world.

[GiacomoD]

Hello Everybody,
my name is Giacomo, 46 years old, and I'm from Italy.
Travel and Landscape photography was the great passion of my youth, but later lost in the mess of my life... I'm quite new in Digital Photography and I still have to learn a lot, but most of all I need independent, detached judgements and criticisms of my works.
I have a Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i in USA) with 10-24mm and 18-200mm Tamron lenses
I hope to find the time to actively take part to CiC community.

Kind regards