Greetings from Cheshire

[SillyEddy]

Good day,

I was fortunate enough to receive a Canon DSLR for Christmas the other year, the EOS 1000D, which was very new at the time.

Since then I've kept the same two lenses which I got with the camera, the stock 18-55mm and a Tamron 70-300mm which is quite a popular buy. I don't know what types of photography suit me best, so I am thankful to have such a broad focal length where I can dip in and out of different styles with relative ease. Until I find an area I am really interested and good in, I am going to be keeping these lenses and then think about getting a nice lens or two dedicated for those tasks.


I am based in Cheshire and I enjoy taking photos of what ever I can. I don't walk about with my camera, but I do take it on trips and it's nice just to get a few shots here and there. I have a good friend who ocassionally lets me take some portrait and modelling photos of her and I have some family members who are photographers or models in the Long Beach area, so they are also very good to get advice on.

I've helped as a prop-man (of sorts) on a shoot, but I generally like to keep things quite easy going.

The future goal is to earn some recognition as a photographer. It would of course be nice to earn some money on the side for doing photos, but being as new as I am, I am happy just to keep it as a good hobby.

A talented photographer who makes some Youtube videos and is a member here once reccomended interested photographers to join up, so I took his words of advice and I am planning on taking a lot of information aboard to try and improve my photography as best I can.

I have Flickr, Model Mayhem, etc. It's good just to put your work out and get some views and, of course, comments for the future.


Cheers,

S.E

[Seosaimhin]

Welcome to the website!

Do you have a DP Gallery? If not, go to www.dphotographer.co.uk and sign up!

Looking forward to seeing your work!

Josie

[Rosie]

Welcome to the forum

[SillyEddy]

Thank you

I have started a DP gallery and the link is in my (newly added) signature.


It's interesting just to go through the head to heads to see the kinds of things people are coming up with and some photos have been very inventive and interesting.

[Rosie]

Glad to hear you're feeling inspired, I'm sure you'll get a lot out of the forum and website. You gallery has some nice shots in there - looking forward to seeing more

[FrankF]

Welcome to the Forum!

Frank F.