Introduce Yourself & Welcome Other Members (archive)

[Sharyn Elizabeth]

Hi Jorg (George) I see you prefer the Sony, me too. I have an A300 but am hoping to buy the A77 in another couple of weeks. I am so looking forward to it as the one I have is about three years old and technology is so much better now.

[Evel]

Hi everyone I'm Paul

Quite new to all this photography stuff , my weapon of choice is a Samsung EX1 which I had for 2 years and still learning .

[Artistlin]

Hi everyone,

I am a multi-disciplined artist: graphic design and illustration, watercolors, and lately, photography. My latest interest is nature and landscapes, and beautiful light...I've always loved wild places, and now I have an even better excuse for heading out. The other end of the spectrum of my interests is sports photography...particularly high school sports. I show and sell my work as limited edition fine art prints, I would love to hear how everyone elses' experience with that is going.

I use Canon equipment, own a 7D and 5D Mark III with an assortment of lenses for shooting sweeping landscapes to grizzly bear eyelashes. I have quite a bit to learn, having survived on A or P mode for many years and now finding them to be very limiting. So I am here to learn.

Cheers,
Lin
www.linteichman.com

[mbkme]

Hi from Alice Springs, Australia. My name is Maggie and I see everything as a photo waiting to happen. I use a Nikon for 'serious' stuff and a Lumix LX5 for my pocket camera. I came to photography very late in life and hope I live long enough to capture all the wonderful images out there at all the places I have yet to visit. My computer skills are even less than my photo skills so this should be interesting; hopefully I can improve both with the coming months and what a great site to visit.

[dkrynauw]

Hi,
My name is David Krynauw from Sydney, Australia.I ave admired Cambridge in Colour for a while now and thought it was time to join your community as I ave just bought myself a new Canon 6D and am so excited about getting to play with my new toy. I look forward to interacting with you all as I learn how to master it!
Best wishes,
David.

[Hobby Bloke]

G/Day! Folks,
Thanks for having me. I'm so impressed with this site that I just had to join you.
I suppose you might call me a point'n'shoot amateur beginner, as I very rarely switched my old Minolta Dynax 505si off Auto.
Over the past few years my little Canon SureShot introduced me to the digital world and the freedom of not worrying about film and developing costs.
With my new Sony Alpha a77, and time on my hands, I feel it is now time to enjoy the greater depths of good photography. In switching to Manual, I know I will need all your help and expertise.
My hobbies include Bonsai and Beekeeping, both of which offer photo opportunities I intend to fully explore.
I look forward to having fun communicating with you all into the future.
regards
Gary
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[Photosense]

Hello @Cambridge in Colour, my name Is Helen and I've been a Photographer for bout 9yrs, I have two websites for my Photography, and about to start a Photography business. :-)

[Janev10]

Hullo, I'm Jan from Sydney Australia. This site was recommended to me by a photography course tutor (thank you Andrew) and I am finding it very helpful. I just love travel, gardens and plants and photography and I am looking forward to being part of this forum.

[biggreek]

I am a retired insurance agent with a passion for photography. Have been dabbling in it since I was a kid.

Never having posted before I am not really certain if I am even doing this correctly. But, that being said, my thoughts on the suggestions for the e-book cover would focus on the 2nd image presented because it is a visual illustration of light going through a lens to form a digital image. #2 gets my vote.

[Jayaraman]

Hi everyone, I'm Jayaraman from India. I'm working as a Photographer's assistant and learning Photography. I shoot events & street photography most of the time. Now, I'm interested to do more off camera lighting stuffs. See you all around the threads

I use Nikon D3100 with kit lens, 50mm 1.8 D and 80-200 2.8 D lenses for my personal assignments. For my office assignments, I use a Canon 5D Mark II with 24-105mm 3.5-5.6 EF lens and 70-200mm f/4 L.

[daprela]

Hi everyone, my name is Giulio, I'm Italian but I live in Thailand with my family. I love photography, my favorite subjects are nature and the places I visit while traveling but in the last few years I haven't had much time to enjoy my passion, so my knowledge is still a bit at the old analog times. I have a Canon EOS550, and now that I've found this community I hope I'll have time to keep up and learn well all the fantastic creativity possibilities given by the digital photography.

[cmk1969]

Hi Everybody,
I'm Chaitanya from Maharashtra, India and I use a Canon 7D & 450D with a 17-85mm & 100mm macro f2.8 usm lens. I'm very much interested in Macro & Landscape photography, hope I will learn something in this forum. visit & take a look at my work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaitanya123/

[neilds37]

Thank you for the welcome John. Looks as though I'll have a learning curve on navigating this forum, but I'll get there. Is there any means of notification for new messages a member receives?
Cheers, Neil

[presbull]

Hello fellow photographers. My name is Preston Bullard and I have been taking "pictures" for some 60+ years. I feel I am now ready to learn something about photography so I will be able to take "photographs". I presently use a Canon 7D and the following lenses: Canon EF 18-55mm-f/3.5-5.6, Canon EF 28-200mm-f/3.5-5.6, Canon EF 100mm-f/2.8 L IS Macro, Canon EF 70-200mm-f/2.8 L IS II, and a Tamron SP 24-70mm-f/2.8 Di VC. I would like to have a longer lens, 400 or 500mm for wildlife, birds, etc. My photographic interests are landscape, architecture, travel, macro, and wildlife. Basically familar with the exposure triangle, dabble in HDR, but am Photoshop deprived. I want to learn. Don't know if it's proper, but am uploading a couple of samples.

[DakarthanbluPhotography]

Hello to all at Cambridge Color my name is Richard and I am an enthusiastic, hmmm-semipro, if such a beast exists. I shoot with a Nikon D200, Sigma 28-50 f/2.8, Nikon 70-300 (slow glass) and a 50mm 1.8; I use Calumet radio triggers as well. My work may be viewed at www.dakarthanbluphotography.zenfolio.com.

[lenticular]

Hi all,

I'm David, a new member on the forum, although I have read Cambridge in Colour articles in the past and have been very impressed by the contents.

I'm getting to be even more manic about (amateur) photography as I get older still :-0 (in my 50s now).
First tried using a camera in earnest some 42 years ago and have hardly stopped since.

DLSR, Rangefinder, and recent MF owner in a small and cheap capacity.
Predominantly using alt lenses, both full MF and also alt-AF, such as adapted Contax N on Canon.

Shoot all sorts of things: landscape, aviation, motorcycle sport, still life, macro, street photography and other candids.
Back into film (35mm B&W, slides and 6x6 and 6x9) as well as digital since 2002...2004

I'm on Flickr as 'smoothlennie' (fear not, it's a reference to gliding) and on other fora with similar usernames to this one on here.

[turfguy]

Hello Everyone! My name is Robb and I am most interested in landscape photography. I am currently using a Sony A330 with a few different lenses (Quantaray Tech-10 70-300mm 1:4-5.6 Macro, Sony 18-55 mm f3.5-5.6, and a Quantaray Tech-10 f2.8 22mm Macro). I am very eager to learn some new techniques to put my camera to better use, including possibly starting to take more portrait photos. Thanks for having me. The site looks fantastic!

[Donald]

Please excuse me not addressing personal welcomes to all you folks that have joined in he last 17/18 hours when I've been on some 'down-time'.

That's:
Miguel
Creaking bones
Sharyn
Paul
Lin
Maggie
David
Gary
Helen
Jan
Big Greek
Jayaraman
Giulio
Chaitanya
Neil
Preston

I hope you all enjoy being part of CiC and get from it what you want.

For those of you didn't do so and 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 (under 'Forum Actions' on the Menu Bar), or you can just press on 'Settings' on the menu bar right up at the top right of the window. Once there you can enter the name by which you wish to be addressed 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.

Have fun!

[John Steadman]

Hello to the member's of CiC, I'm John. I started doing photography back in the film day's, then moved on to digital. Started with the Nikon D2X then a D3 and now the D800.I'm not a professional but class myself a serious amateur. Still a lot to learn.
I print some of my images which can sometimes be up to A2. My interests are photographing steam engines, landscapes and macro.
I have had a look at CiC in the past and the articles and images posted together with the website are first class.

Regards
John

[Cornwall]

Hello, my name on this site is Cornwall, (cos' that is where I live.) Although I'm an octogenarian, i still regard myself as a digital newbie. I started many years ago with a Brownie box, then went on to a 35mm Baldessa and finally (in film) to a Konica Autoflex. Afterwards my fist digital was a 3Mp Kodak and now I have a Fujipix S2500 bridge and also have the Fuji X10 which does most of the things I want. I belong to two local camera clubs and from them have learnt how much I still have to learn. The trouble is, at my age I seem to forget the basics as soon as I have my camera in my hands! I am also a member of a forum called Ugly Hedgehog and have learned a lot from that and hope to learn still more from C.I.C.