Welcome!!

[walterick]

Welcome to Photographyreview.com! You’re now in our community living room, which we call Viewfinder. Feel free to post an introduction here as well as any photos you’d like to share with the family. I think you’ll find we are a pretty welcoming and supportive bunch. We look forward to your contributions!

If you would like to post a biography, a self portrait or a few of your favorite shots, feel free to post in our People thread. You’ll also get the chance to read up on the other people who help make up this fantastic community. To learn about all the moderators who work hard to make this site run so smoothly, check out the Moderators Biography Page. To learn about any of our members, just click on their name in any thread.

We offer members the opportunity to set up a free Online Gallery! Feel free to post your own photos in your gallery, and receive ratings and feedback. Use the email function to send a link to your gallery to all your friends. And be sure to check out all the work of all the other photographers!

We have occasionally been known to play photography games and create photographic projects. Our largest ever project, Camera Around the World, is an on-going game of sending a community camera around the globe and having pr.com members take pictures with it - and its accompanying chaperon Rufus - and then posting those pictures in a single thread for all to see. For our ongoing monthly photo assignment, look at our Photo Project page for the current assignment as well as past assignments. There’s always the occasional No Words game, and an index here of all threads. We also have a running seasonal project called 24 Hours. If you missed the winter date, stay tuned for an announcement in the spring for your next chance to participate! Next date should be around April 14 of 2007. Click here to see what our past projects have looked like:
The Original 24 Hours Project
Another 24 Hours
The Autumn 24 Hours 2006
The Winter 24 Hours 2007
The Spring 24 Hours 2007

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Is it okay to bait wildlife for photography?
Extension tubes: Experience and pictures
Are black and white digital conversions over used?
What is art? And how does it relate to photography?

We also have a list of specialized forums for whatever interests you in photography:

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Critique. One of the best ways to learn is to have your work critiqued by other photographers. If you are seeking feedback on your work, this is the place to go.

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Please take the time to explore the many features of our community. And remember, one of the best ways to support our site is to review your own equipment!

Welcome aboard! We look forward to seeing and hearing from you

[ddkphotos]

Hi - I'm DDK...
Actually my name is Diane Dupuis-Kallos but that's way too long... I work as a secretary in a high school in Montreal - so the kids started calling me ddk for short and it stuck...

I've always enjoyed taking photos - but I've been taking it much more seriously in the past 3 years. Took courses, workshops, read whatever I could get my hands on - drove other photographers nuts with questions - and then practiced practiced practiced. I feel comfortable saying I'm no longer a beginner... LOL!

I shoot with a Fuji S5200 10x zoom point and shoot which I really love but I know it has it limitations and although I don't want to (due to the weight, carrying around extra lenses, the dirt on the sensor, etc. etc.) I figure my next step will be a dslr... but not yet! Gotta keep buying those lotto tickets!

Thanks to AG for telling me about this place! I can't wait to have more time to explore and meet new people.

Bye for now!
DDK

[Alison]

Welcome to the forums DDK!!!

You are very welcome. It's a GREAT site! That's why I advised you to come here.
I love it here and I hope you enjoy it here as much as I do!

The people here are FANTASTIC!

[Tazzers]

Hello all. First post here.

My name is Phil, I am a Nikon Film and digital SLR user.

Looking forward to learning lots from you all.

Cheers.

[mollys]

Hello. I'm new here. I'm looking to learn more about photography and hopefully take some better pictures.

I currently mostly take pictures of foster cats with the purpose of helping them find homes, and would like to start taking pictures of my garden and food I cook. Not super exciting, but I'm happy with a relatively boring life.

My current camera is a Kodak DX6340 Zoom, and I'd like to upgrade in the near future - it's about 10 years old, so I assume almost anything made in the last couple years will be a huge upgrade!

I'm looking forward to learning lots and taking pictures.

[rds]

Hi Everybody,

Another newbie to this forum. would consider myself an ok photographer. been taking pictures for a couple of decades..

would like to learn about low light and hdr photography

cheers
rds

[walterick]

Hello DDK! Nice to have you aboard! We look forward to seeing your pictures! But, most importantly, we expect a whole bunch of "dirt" on your friend Alison here. She's a real troublemaker!

I hope you'll take the time to put something in the People thread about yourself. It's a great place to learn about our other members, too.

Rick

[Alison]

You know I love ya Rick hehe
You really made me smile

[Anna4247]

Hi all... Im new to the forum and I am a beginner... A good friend of mine, JETA, has suggested I come here... I probably wont be as much help as I will be with questions. I do have a question, but before I post it Ill look around and see if the answer is here.

[HelenV]

Hi all... Im new to the forum and I am a beginner... A good friend of mine, JETA, has suggested I come here... I probably wont be as much help as I will be with questions. I do have a question, but before I post it Ill look around and see if the answer is here.

Welcome! Glad to meet you.

[OldClicker]

Hi all... Im new to the forum and I am a beginner... A good friend of mine, JETA, has suggested I come here... I probably wont be as much help as I will be with questions. I do have a question, but before I post it Ill look around and see if the answer is here.

Welcome and I look foeward to seeing some images. - Terry

[MJSiemien]

Thanks for the Welcome Aboard. I've always loved reading posts on the site and now I've joined....to join!

[Alisha Kateleen]

Hi guys, so well for as long as I can remember I loved playing around with cameras. My mom used to get so mad at me because I would find where she hid hers and I would use up all the film just to take random pictures. And that is basically what I have been dong for quite some time however people kept telling me how much they liked my pictures (which were just point and shoot photos) that I decided to take it a bit further and try to actually understand photography.

[julestx]

I'm not sure if this post will go through. Every time I try to create a post it tells me I have to have 5 posts to post. Hopefully this can be the start of my 5 posts, haha.

My name is Julie, and I'm new to photography. I love to take photos of people. Unfortunately, people in general don't like to have their photo taken. I manage to get some sneak pics taken here and there until people catch on to me and then they hide. I resort to taking photos of my animals, or some landscaping, but it doesn't thrill me at all. My favorite thing to do of all time, is take photos of people and then give the photos to them if they turn out. I like to see people smile and enjoy them, like I do! What I'd like from this forum, is to gain more perspective by getting feedback on how I can improve. I would also like to learn how to take photos of activities where I can't keep my camera still (like watersports activities shot from the small speedboat, where there is barely enough room for a tripod which seems like it wouldn't help anyways). I don't have photoshop or anything like that. I'd love to, but it scares me too, in that it might be too complicated with "layers" etc. I did recently get picassa because a friend told me about it, and it was free.

Thanks for reading! I hope this post works!

[ddkphotos]

Thanks Alison and Rick!

[Geneviere2]

Hello!

My name is Amanda and I'm new to the board. I'm also pretty new to photography. I've been playing around and trying to learn as much as I can for a couple years now but unfortunately I've never been able to take a class. I feel like it's about time I actually get serious about it as a hobby so I've made the big and scary step of buying a digital SLR camera. After years of dreaming I finally did it a couple weeks ago and I love it! I bought the Canon Kiss X (Rebel XTi) and am getting comfortable with it despite its being so much more camera than I'm used to.

I can hardly wait to get into the board a bit more and learn as much as I can.

Amanda

[kathyp]

Hi. I'm technically old school, but haven't logged in in over a year. Everytime I come back here, it seems as though we have a new and improved message board.

I'm still a film girl, by the way.

[natsdad]

Hello!

My name is Amanda and I'm new to the board. I'm also pretty new to photography. I've been playing around and trying to learn as much as I can for a couple years now but unfortunately I've never been able to take a class. I feel like it's about time I actually get serious about it as a hobby so I've made the big and scary step of buying a digital SLR camera. After years of dreaming I finally did it a couple weeks ago and I love it! I bought the Canon Kiss X (Rebel XTi) and am getting comfortable with it despite its being so much more camera than I'm used to.

I can hardly wait to get into the board a bit more and learn as much as I can.

Amanda

Hi there Amanda,
I am new to this board as well but I think I posted my intro in the wrong section.I have also just taken the plunge into SLR by purchasing a Canon EOS 350D,which I believe may be similar to your camera.Welcome from another newbie.

[DaveLC2]

Hello everyone, my name is Dave and I am from Northern California and shoot with a Nikon D50 which my wife bought me for our first anniversary about 6 months ago. I always loved taking pictures but now I would like to get a little more serious. My goal is to master full manual mode I now take my camera and tripod everywhere I go. I am lucky to have lots of nature & beauty to shoot at work every day. My favorite things to shoot is oceans, animals and cars

Dave

[Ecooper]

Hi all,

New here, posting from Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Cheers,
EC

[Ecooper]

Hi again,

It seems the nature forum is apparently mainly about photographing birds. Where do those of us that like to photograph insects and other creepy-crawlies post? It’s too bad there isn’t a close-up and macro photography forum on this site. Has there ever been discussion about adding one?

EC

[OldClicker]

Hi again,

It seems the nature forum is apparently mainly about photographing birds. Where do those of us that like to photograph insects and other creepy-crawlies post? It’s too bad there isn’t a close-up and macro photography forum on this site. Has there ever been discussion about adding one?

EC

The Nature forum is for everything Narure. We have quite a few excellent birders, but all are welcome. Start posting!

btw - your post is in the middle of the thread so you may not get many viewers/replies.

Terry

[Ecooper]

The Nature forum is for everything Narure. We have quite a few excellent birders, but all are welcome. Start posting!

btw - your post is in the middle of the thread so you may not get many viewers/replies.

Terry

Thank-you
EC

[Photo-John]

The Nature forum is for everything Narure. We have quite a few excellent birders, but all are welcome. Start posting!

Terry is correct - the Nature & Wildlife forum is for all kinds of critter and nature photos. I would love to see more diversity there, in fact. So post away with the bug photos! And welcome to the site

[Melody]

Hi. My name is Melody. I am new to photography. But look forward to learning. This is a wonderful site. The support and sharing is great.
Melody