SaugaPhotoGuy
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Hi everyone. I got a Canon T5i w/ additional telephoto lens, camera bag, and extra battery this Christmas. I wanted the camera because my wife is pregnant and I wanted to be able to take good quality pictures and videos of all those special moments when my child is born. I also have a dog and 3 cats who make for good subjects as well.
My mom had given me her old Nikon D40 a few years ago, but I didn't use the camera much. I have some relatively basic knowledge of Photoshop from when I was in high school (I'm 31 now), but otherwise I'm very new to all of this.
I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos over the last week or so and playing around with the camera and editing things in Lightroom. I'm loving the presets in Lightroom because I find that the right one is able to make your picture really special and transform it into something that looks good.
I'm loving the HDR look. I had always liked that style of photo when I had seen it over the years, and I didn't realize that you could get that look relatively quickly with the right camera and software. I know that the over the top HDR look is considered cheesy, but I still like it for now. I'm sure it's something I'll grow out of as I become a better photographer.
Anyways, I'm enjoying photography a lot more than I thought I would. I have a career in insurance and I don't plan on having photography be anything more than a hobby... but it would be nice to eventually be good enough to shoot a wedding or something like that. If I could get occasional work on the weekends and spend my spare time editing photos, it would be nice to have a bit of extra income (or money to spend buying better camera gear). Though I'm guessing that it would take me quite a few years to be anywhere near good enough.
I just started a photobucket account and put some pictures there that I've taken recently. I haven't had the best of subjects to shoot yet, but I've been playing around with the photos primarily in Lightroom and tried get something out of them. At this point, my editing is probably better than my photo-taking abilities, though I would still consider both to be at the beginner level.
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My mom had given me her old Nikon D40 a few years ago, but I didn't use the camera much. I have some relatively basic knowledge of Photoshop from when I was in high school (I'm 31 now), but otherwise I'm very new to all of this.
I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos over the last week or so and playing around with the camera and editing things in Lightroom. I'm loving the presets in Lightroom because I find that the right one is able to make your picture really special and transform it into something that looks good.
I'm loving the HDR look. I had always liked that style of photo when I had seen it over the years, and I didn't realize that you could get that look relatively quickly with the right camera and software. I know that the over the top HDR look is considered cheesy, but I still like it for now. I'm sure it's something I'll grow out of as I become a better photographer.
Anyways, I'm enjoying photography a lot more than I thought I would. I have a career in insurance and I don't plan on having photography be anything more than a hobby... but it would be nice to eventually be good enough to shoot a wedding or something like that. If I could get occasional work on the weekends and spend my spare time editing photos, it would be nice to have a bit of extra income (or money to spend buying better camera gear). Though I'm guessing that it would take me quite a few years to be anywhere near good enough.
I just started a photobucket account and put some pictures there that I've taken recently. I haven't had the best of subjects to shoot yet, but I've been playing around with the photos primarily in Lightroom and tried get something out of them. At this point, my editing is probably better than my photo-taking abilities, though I would still consider both to be at the beginner level.
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