Hello!
My name is Amanda and I'm from Wisconsin. I am 25 years old and recently married. I also recently went back to school and took a few film classes. These films classes required us to take pictures and videos for numerous projects. While competing these projects I realized I need to take my photography work more seriously as I was receiving the highest grades in the classes on most projects.
I was also having way too much fun doing my homework and spending hours a day taking pictures and playing around with them. I have always had a passion for photography and can remember back in kindergarten staring at National Geographic magazines dreaming of taking pictures like the ones in that magazine. I played around with my dad's old Canon 35mm while growing up, but had never played with anything else except for my growing collection of point and shoot digi cams....
I am rather impulsive
and after a few weeks of online researching went out and bought a Nikon D40x. (I bought it on November 15th so just a few weeks ago!!) A friend of mine borrowed me his D80 and I had a pleasant experience with it so I am excited about the D40x to learn with.
I have started a blog where I have posted some pictures I have taken with my new toy and now I have people asking me to shoot their weddings and take family portraits, etc! Considering I have only been shooting with a DSLR for about a month, I am extremely nervous about this all!
I am starting to learn about aperture it's finally starting to click...hehe (no pun intended)
I am enrolled in a two-year digital photography program at my local technical college and am starting that in January. I hope to use this forum as a learning tool and to learn all there is to know about photography. I am most interested in learning about different lenses and flashes so I can hopefully shoot these two weddings next May!
I wanted to point out that before joining this forum I was looking around for a little while and everyone here is so nice! That is such a relief since with a few other photography forums/websites, a lot of the participants were rude and unpleasant, especially to beginning photographers.
So thanks everyone and I'll see you around!
Amanda