Hello from Montana!

KnicKnack · Mar 25, 2012

Hello everyone! Missoula Montana TPF Noob here! I just got my first DSLR, the Nikon D5100! I've been looking for a good deal on one for a long time and the camera of my dreams finally found me! I'm so excited to finally have one! This looked like a good, fun, friendly forum to help me progress with my photos and to meet other awesome people/photographers. I'm excited to get to know a lot of you and participate in photo challenges

hope you all have a fantastic day!

CCericola · Mar 25, 2012

Welcome. There are a couple of people in Montana on TPF here. I'm from Bozeman but, now I live on the east coast.

unpopular · Mar 25, 2012

Welcome to TPF!

I'm in Billings. Do you go to school in Missoula? My wife is finishing up at Rocky Mountain College.

killbill · Mar 25, 2012

Welcome! Just bought my first D-SLR too (D3100). Looking forward to seeing your shots.

KnicKnack · Mar 26, 2012

No, I'm not going to school any more but I actually went to Rocky Mtn in 2006-2008 for Equestrian Studies! I've looked into the Rocky Mountain School of Photography and may go next year, but for now I'm just enjoying life.

Billings is a great town and RMC is a GREAT school! What is she going into?

KnicKnack · Mar 26, 2012

Thanks killbill! Congrats on your first dslr as well! I haven't been this excited about something in.. a long time! lol hope your enjoying yours and i look forward to seeing yours too!

Big Mike · Mar 26, 2012

Welcome aboard.

JeremyDueckPhoto · Mar 26, 2012

Im heading to Missoula this summer for some photo ops and a vacation. Looks like a nice place a great place to shoot.

unpopular · Mar 27, 2012

KnicKnack said:
No, I'm not going to school any more but I actually went to Rocky Mtn in 2006-2008 for Equestrian Studies! I've looked into the Rocky Mountain School of Photography and may go next year, but for now I'm just enjoying life. Billings is a great town and RMC is a GREAT school! What is she going into?

Lo is very bored of undergrad, and doesn't much care for Rocky. But I think that has more to do with senioritus than the school. She seems to have a selective memory of herself when she was eighteen or nineteen.

At any rate, she's studying sociology for prelaw. We plan to move to Seattle in a few years.

If I were you, I'd be very careful with these specialty photography schools. Aside from a very few, many are pretty scammy. Northwest College in Powell, WY has a solid commercial photography program. The faculty can be a bit unbearable sometimes, but they produce good photographers with business sense.