tommyyearginjr

I agree with Lex: don't give up!

 

Tommy

<blockquote><i>"It's quite common for a photo to do both."</i></blockquote><br>Revealing snags your interest, and reminding is how you learn and remember the moment.

<blockquote><i>"Surely self confidence and belief in what you are doing is a must for any endeavour in life."</i></blockquote><br>It's OK to be self critical, and desirable to get criticism from the outside, but I wouldn't make it a habit of beating myself up all the time. My photography is what it is. It's up to me to improve and seek guidance on how to be better.

By the way, in my previous answer, the blogspot site http://blahblahblah.blogspot.com was only an example I thought up from the top of my head. I didn't realize that it was an actual blog, until I clicked on the link after my answer was posted. Sorry!

If you have a Google account, there are a few options you have for having a site, without having to learn a lot of code:

 

Picasa web albums (http://picasaweb.google.com), for uploading and displaying photo albums.

 

Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), Google's free blog hosting service. You can create a custom address, assuming its available (http://blahblahblah.blogspot.com, for example). A great way to start displaying photos and creating pages (AKA permalinks).

 

Google Labs currently has a beta version of something called Google Page Creator (http://pages.google.com), that allows you to create static web pages from a template.

 

Most services that I have dealt with that sell domain names allow you to point them wherever you want them, or you can buy web space and code your own site.

 

Hope that helps. Best of luck with your new site!

Perhaps the police have a fear of being caught on camera in what would appear to be a "Rodney King"-like episode, where they are actually doing their job, subduing someone resisting arrest for an actual crime, and being caught on film <i>appearing</i> to use violent force to attack someone.

Read up about bracketing. It was a big help to me. Best of luck with digital!

It won't hurt to try.

<blockquote><i>"I once even had an entire roll of film I thought was crap."</i></blockquote>Been there, done that.<br>

Maybe not one, but there will be many, many memorable photographs taken.

I say no model release necessary, because you can't tell who the subjects in the photos are.

Mine is a Canon Powershot A530.

<blockquote><i>"Was he right?"</i></blockquote>Absolutely!

Got a chance to visit your website (alaskanphotographs.com), and also came back to PN to view your portfolio. I want to congratulate you on your beautiful work, and the very professional website you developed. Best of luck with your photography!

 

Regards,

 

Tommy Yeargin

Thank you for the recommendation.

Excellent collection!

I agree with everyone...a lot of the photography magazines are basically regurgitated articles on techniques and tons of ads. The only reason I would bother picking one up, is to read a camera review. And I don't even do that anymore, because there are plenty of sites that do a pretty good job reviewing cameras/lenses/accessories. Just stick with PN!

Like Stephen, I wear progressive lenses also. I keep my glasses on, with the diopter adjusted. Works fine for me. Good luck with your photography!

Try <i>PN</i>'s <a href="http://www.photo.net/learn/making-photographs/">Online Textbook</a>. Good luck!

In the future, be sure to make a copy of your image, and work off the duplicate instead of the original. I don't know about CS, but in Photoshop Elements you can easily duplicate an image by going to File > Duplicate...

A great place to start is PN's online textbook, found here:<br><br><a href="http://www.photo.net/learn/making-photographs/">http://www.photo.net/learn/making-photographs/</a><br><br>

Really cool. Thanks for sharing the link with PN. It says in the article that he photographed the cars coming across the finish line of the first Daytona 500, which would be used to decide the winner in the "photo finish".

I haven't really thought about how much I am influenced by PN. I have learned from PN, but I haven't considered if I am subconsciously influenced by the site's photos. I do feel like I am more daring with some of my photos. Perhaps that's why.

I would be cautious about putting "all your eggs in one basket", and using just one service to store your photos (and files for that matter). It's best to have AT LEAST a couple of offline file storage solutions (hard drive, DVD, print copies, etc.) to store your images, and even better to have your pictures stored online in at least two offline storage providers (Google, this new Swiss Picture Bank, etc.), to give you a little ease of mind to not losing your images.

It was one of the first cameras I received as a gift, and I captured a lot of old memories with my Polaroid camera. It's great to live in the digital world, but I have to mourn seeing the old Polaroid go. I have to join Douglas Stemke and others in saying, "RIP, Polaroid films".