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ONE YEAR IN
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Hello all,
Michael from Omagh here. Bit nervous about joining in but here goes.
I was about to take partial retirement a year ago, with full retirement in June 2012. I knew I had to make sure I didn’t spend my days twiddling my thumbs and was wondering how I could fill my time (apart from some other interests). I was at a wedding Aug last year and had my wee Olympus mju 740 with me. I always had an interest in photography, but more like taking holiday snaps! :oops: At the same table was a friend who had a Nikon D60 who invited me to take it and go round and take a few shots. I saw the results and was hooked. Looked for a D60 (niece’s wedding a month later so a good excuse) and found it was replaced by D3000, then D3100 which I bought. Great camera. I amazed myself by taking 200 shots at my niece’s wedding and at the difference between past snaps and these. I had it in time to join a course at local Tech in Omagh, Getting to know your Digital Camera. In Feb I joined a course, HCFE Level 2 photography. At the end of the course it was suggested that photos were for viewing, not festering on a hard drive, why not exhibit. So a few of us on the course bit the bullet and did that, and at the same time helping a local cancer care charity. You bid for a photo, at the end of the 2 weeks highest bidders get that photo. Ends this Friday. We learned a heck of a lot putting on this exhibition in all sorts of ways. I have been surprised at the positive comments but I am aware that my photos are all flawed in some way or another. I hope to learn a lot more technically and otherwise (like great scenes to shoot) from this site. Sorry for my extreme blether… Not so much an intro as an apologia. Thanks for your patience.welcome along Michael . . .
you will get good advice and hints and tips,
get posting some pics and read the last line of my signature ! enjoy :DMany thanks, aoluain. I am looking forward to picking up a bit. I have a problem with uploading, though. Not sure how to do it as there is no Help page. I tried commenting on someone’s shot and had a suggested crop but it wouldn’t upload as I didn’t know what to click on. No doubt in time I will learn. The attraction for me here is the fact that much of what I see is close to me (relatively) as opposed to the streets of New York or the deserts of Arizona! It makes achieving great shots of, for example, seascapes, much more of an achieveable goal.
to post images here you need to first post on … say flickr or blogger
then on your image in flickr or blogger right click and copy the link address from that image
which will be something like this >
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-efuPPpAX5cE/UDP7n9c4g5I/AAAAAAAAAPo/zldMxRk-6aw/s1600/urban-interior-01.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;then in your post here click the img button and paste the image address between the tags [img]
and you get this
Thanks, aoluain. That is not too bad, except there is no direct upload from my pc. Pity. Cheers.
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