Introduce Yourself

[iskandar]

Hello all!

I'm Iskandar , I just turned 20, residing in Singapore, Asia.
I just got my first DSLR , EOS 450D this year and still have much more to learn. Stumbled upon this site and wow, the information are so easy to grasp made me came back and register here.

I love conceptual photos, moody and intense, and have a flair in colours and processing I am very active in flickr , its a daily routine now Hope I can be equally active here.

Check out my works here

[Snaphappyscottie]

Hi everybody,

My name is Allan and i live in Scotland with my wife and four dogs.
I only recently got back into phototgraphy after being away from it for just over 20 years or so. I do however have another hobby, well what i think is a great hobby and that is astronomy which i have been doing for well as long as i can remember.

My kit, Nikon D300, AF-S NIKKOR 18-70 f3.5-4.5g ED DX,
SIGMA APO DG 70-300 f1.4-5.6 zoom macro
AFS NIKKOR 18-200 3.5-5.6 G ED DX

I enjoy photographing anything that takes my interest at that point of time.
Can i just say that i look forward to speaking to other members about the photography scene.

[BirdDude007]

Hey folks I am new here and am basically new to digital photography. I used to be into photography from when I was a child all the way through my thirties, now I am forty four and I still have my old SLR (Pentax ME Super, small assortment of lenses and filters and flashes and such. I haven't used the camera for a long time now(ten years approximately) and it is sitting in storage shed right now. I have been getting into using digital cameras now but only the point and shoot compact kind, at first I wasn't that interested in them because I sort of felt let down after all the years of being loyal to film cameras and investing the dough into that sort of stuff, and now it all is pretty much rendered useless (was holding out and hoping they would have invented something to adapt those old cameras to digital, silly me for thinking that, now that would have been too easy and cheap)
My first digital camera was a POS that I got from AOL(it didn't last long) my second was a Pentax Optio S5i which perked my interest in digital cameras, besides I was still loyal to Pentax stuff, it was a 5 megapixel camera that I really enjoyed having but now it got too slow for me so recently I bought a Cannon SD770is compact with 10 megapixel, this camera is AWESOME! Dont get me wrong , the Pentax was and still is a good camera(now my eight year old is using it and it is still going strong after five years, not bad for a point and shoot camera)
Now I know you folks in here probably thumb your noses at small point and shoots, but actually this is not why I am here for anyways, this little camera is so "kick butt" that it has gotten my interest back into photography..........DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY that is!
I have been reading up on it and it seems that I need to learn a whole heck of a lot more on top of the retraining of basic photo skilzz.
I have taken courses in photography way back in high school and have a basic knowledge of photography, but I have always been the type to just throw that stuff aside and mainly did what I call a "by the seat of the pants" type of photography. Basically what I did was just get a good feel of my old SLR camera and took whatever kind of shots that I wanted. I never got out a light meter(or what ever) I just took the shots, I looked at the lighting situation, considered the film speed that I had, figured in my filters and lenses, and WHALA! 95% of my shots came out awesome! folks told me that I was basically a natural at it, and the more they told me that the better I got. I was the main photographer for all family events, school events, and church youth events for most of my younger years. My exwife was really into photography too, she had four times the equipment that I had, but she was truly amazed at how much better my photos came out than hers.
What I am gettin at is this- My interest in digital photography is gaining steam to the point that I want to get back into it like I was when I was shooting film cameras, and I AM looking into getting a DSLR of some kind, maybe one that can use my old lenses/flashes/filters. I would like to get a full frame sensor type of DSLR but from what I have seen, they are very expensive. I know this is long but maybe you folks in here can help me out on finding one, and even then I will have lots of questions regarding using one, I have many exotic birds and I love photographing them so get used to seeing them a lot, heh heh, thanks for you input............007IMG_0348 (Large).jpg

PS: does anybody in here know of a good negative/slide scanner? I wanna archive all my old negatives, and I need an easy to use dedicated scanner for negs/slides that is high resolution/quality

[Harrod251]

Hi my name is Jeremy Tyler Jerome Montrell Matthew Phillipe Taylor Cervante Eric Owen Luke Vasquez Harrod III. Um, not really but I wish! .. Ok no I don't. Anyway, I am 18, just turned May 28. I graduated from High School May 22. I am currently enjoying my summer before I go to Troy University here in Alabama at the end of July. I plan on being in the "Sound of the South" .. look them up they're awesome

Photography has always intrigued me. I love to learn how to use my Nikon D40 (well not mine but my aunt's who doesn't know how to use it) and use it properly. I hate dull photos. I'm here to interact about photography and maybe get some advice on how to improve pretty much.

If anyone wants to add me to Yahoo Messenger .. feel free (pro.jeremy)

-Harrod

[JPV]

Hello, my name is Jason. I live in Edmonton, Canada.

I have had an interest in photography for some time but have yet to persue it with as much vigor as I am now. Having said that I am very much a newbie at this.

My love of my life is my family of course. My wife, my 18 month son and my best friend, and last but not least my Portugese Water dog.

I hope to meet people, talk shop, encourage, learn, share and maybe some day mentor through this site.

My gear included a Nikon D80, stock 18-55 lens, stock 55-200 lens, 50mm f1.8 prime. No flash or other goodies yet.

All the best to all here!

Jason

[kurtwall]

Hello, everyone. I'm Kurt Wall, currently residing in Fremont, California, America, Earth, Sol. Graduated to a Nikon D60 with 18-55mm kit lens last month after about 3 years using point-and-shoot digital cameras. I was finding that I couldn't get the quality or effects I wanted with P&S cameras and I also wanted more control over the camera's functions than most P&S cameras permit. In the few weeks I've been reading DPS, I've learned that I have a lot to learn. I'm having a blast with my new toy and looking forward to improving my skills.

[mattgdawson]

Hi Guys,

My name is Matt Dawson. I have been interested in photography for a while now. I have been using a Canon Powershot G9 for a little while and now have the money to upgrade to a DSLR. I have my heart set on a Nikon D300, hopefully it will be mine soon.

[ronnieg]

Hi there, I'm Ronnie. I signed on with DPS a couple of months ago and boy! have I learned a lot in that time! Really made me think outside the box. This site is amazing! Plenty of valuable tutorials, nice people and great photographs.

I've loved photography ever since I saw my friends photos she had taken with an SLR camera about ## years ago. I owned a Pentax K1000 for many years and finally traded it in for a Canon 350D about three years ago. I've taken about 8,000 pics with it and have just sold it to a friend as I'm trading up to a Canon 40D, so it won't look quite so strange hanging off my Canon L series 24-105mm IS lens. Nah, it's the weather-resistance and the bigger screen that got me in. I also have the Lensbaby lenses as I think that they are awesomely artistic and really get the creative juices flowing.

I'm an artist when I'm not taking photographs. I paint narrative work incorporating metaphor and symbolism and I absolutely love anything creative.

Thanks for having such a great site,

Ronnie

[SmallMirage]

Hello everyone! I am fairly new to photography, taking a course this summer and just bought my first DSLR. Having a lot of fun with it, very excited to learn more!

Looking forward to sharing my work and seeing all of yours!

[nncyruth]

I've loved photography forever and as a web master and graphic artist I've used it professionally for a long time.

I love this site. I had sort of gotten burned out and jaded, but since I started knocking around in DPS it's all come back. So many people just working away at what they love to do, and talented too. It's energizing.