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Hi Guys,

The amount of photography posts on this website really astound me. It's pretty cool. How many of you guys are pros at photography and how many do it just cos its fun ? Also have you guys done any training?
 
Amateur enthusiast.
Self taught using good magazines that have tutorial video CD's included, and this forum
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5

I find the UK mags the best - when in the US all the good mags on the shelf were produced in the UK.
"Digital Photo" is the one I always get, in addition to a few others.

The "Digital Photo" video tutorials have helped me stacks with PhotoShop.
 
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Frankie said:
I find the UK mags the best - when in the US all the good mags on the shelf were produced in the UK.
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My favourite one so far is Outdoor Photo. It's heavy on technique and ideas for where to shoot (it's landscape oriented) and lighter on Photoshop. I find many of the photography magazines are nothing but Photoshop magazines in disguise - lots of image editing stuff, lots of hardware reviews, and very little about photography.

I learned the basics from my dad's photography books and magazines dating from the 70s and 80s - good stuff! Of course, digital brings a few new challenges that I wasn't exactly prepared for :)
 
I'm getting paid to take photos :) even though I'm still not sure what direction I really want to go in. I was recently offered stringer work with the local rag so might try my hand at that next.

Learned my way around a camera and darkroom at school then followed that up in college - easy credits :D

I wish we'd had digital when I first entered the workforce - my job took me all over the world and I would have had some interesting images but when my SLR broke I never found the time to get it fixed.

Only really got back into photography a couple of years ago when I bought my Canon 400D.
 
just a hobby (although have got published and paid for one or two).

got interested as my dad used to teach photography at the school he taught at back in the day - and so had a darkroom at home and developed my own pics. got back into it again after a long break when I got my DSLR in 2005.
 
You're lucky, Calico182. My dad had a dark room when I was born but by the time I got interested, the equipment had to make way (as in, physical floor space) for more important things. Like a child's room :) He's sold off most of his dark room equipment since.
 
koffiejunkie said:
My favourite one so far is Outdoor Photo. It's heavy on technique and ideas for where to shoot (it's landscape oriented) and lighter on Photoshop. I find many of the photography magazines are nothing but Photoshop magazines in disguise - lots of image editing stuff, lots of hardware reviews, and very little about photography.

I learned the basics from my dad's photography books and magazines dating from the 70s and 80s - good stuff! Of course, digital brings a few new challenges that I wasn't exactly prepared for :)
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I'll take your advice an get a copy of that soon - I'll be back in the UK early next year - I'll be legal then - got my 5 year work permit and just had confirmation from VFS in Cape Town that my passport with visa is ready for collection - I've been working for them for 5 years but all over the world, but will spend a fair amount of time in our UK HQ hence the need for the work permit, which will help if/when I decide to sell up and move out of my homeland.

My dad also did a little black and white developing, but like you that took seconds to space and cost requirements associated with children.
 
Frankie said:
I'll take your advice an get a copy of that soon - I'll be back in the UK early next year - I'll be legal then - got my 5 year work permit and just had confirmation from VFS in Cape Town that my passport with visa is ready for collection - I've been working for them for 5 years but all over the world, but will spend a fair amount of time in our UK HQ hence the need for the work permit, which will help if/when I decide to sell up and move out of my homeland.
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Cool! Whereabout in the UK? That magazine is actually a very nice guide to beautiful landscape in the UK - often the less visited areas.
 
Cool, i think this is somethin i want to take up one day when i can afford to do it. I love it when you see these AMAZING pictures of really sad people or these people with those looks on there faces ( i think some of u will know what im talking about) that it just "Wow's" you!!
 
koffiejunkie said:
Cool! Whereabout in the UK? That magazine is actually a very nice guide to beautiful landscape in the UK - often the less visited areas.
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West Sussex, just south of Gatwick - I'll spend the first few months of next year in the UK, then off to the US for about one year.
I enjoy photographing all the great historic buildings in the UK, in addition to a few good landscapes.
 
Frankie said:
West Sussex, just south of Gatwick - I'll spend the first few months of next year in the UK, then off to the US for about one year.
I enjoy photographing all the great historic buildings in the UK, in addition to a few good landscapes.
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Reminds me of where I grew up in Rutland (midlands). Bloody hayfever season would drive me insane! :o :D
 
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