dejan1

To Kellen:

Thank you for this great information and encouraging post. I try whenever I have time to make comment, so I hope that this group of enthusiastic people will took me in. :-)

To Andy:

Thanks for your response. It's not all about rating. Give me 1/1 but explain why. I know that I have to compete with thousands of others, but I need critiques of my skills so that I can improve my tehnic. Anyway, I see that I cannot expect critique or comment from you - only 9 comments in 5 years and 31 rating :-(

To Omkaar:

Yes, I really don't know how they pop-up in a second when I post photo. Things will get better with comments for all of us I hope.

Thanks for your quick response! When you see my personal page you'll see that I'm giving comments and ratings. When I joined PN I thought it's like that, If you wanna receive you need to give.

I think one of the problems with ratings is that people when they see photo and they don't like it they rate it worst then some kin of photography they do like. By that I mean if someone likes Portraits he will give better rating to that kind of photography than to some landscape photo which they don't like even if that photo is better in all ways (technically, composition etc.) I'll rather skip photo rating if I don't like that category of photos.

Thanks for your effort. Stay well, Dejan

I'm member of this page maybe one month. During that time I posted several

photos. I thought that I'll get some response from people, and yet I was

disappointed. Only few people wrote comments and suggestions. What I find really

disappointing is when i get 3/3 in anonymous ratings and no explanation why. I

doesn't matter that I got 3/3, or even less, I would like to know what is wrong

so that I can improve myself.

But nevermind, I'll still post my photos, and hope that I'll get some critiques

and through that I'll try to find my way to make better photos.

hi Carolina. I bought E-500 recently, don't have it more than one month. For now I'm satisfied with it. I bought it in package with 14-45 and 40-150 lenses, and 1 GB cf card. That's one of the packages shipped by Olympus through shops in Europe.

Numbers are focal lengths. 40-150 is telephoto lens. For distant objects, or for something that you need to bring up closer. And the object of the photo cannot be closer than 1,50 meters.

The other lens is wide angle lens (I'm also new to this kind of theory, but I think I can explain you something). Object cannot be closer than 0,28 meters that you can focus it.

So for close-up objects you need some macro lens (maybe you could do something with lenses that come in package, I haven't tried yet) Olympus has this macro lens http://www.olympus-esystem.com/dea/products/lens/35_35M/index.html

I don't know the price, and for sure you can find some other lenses which fit to e-500.

I've heard that Compact Flash cards are faster, I also think they are cheaper. 1 GB would be enough for start. You can take about 150 super high quality photos with it. In europe it costs about 40-50$

Some links:

http://www.photoxels.com/digital-photography-tutorials.html

http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/index.html

http://www.sxc.hu/tutorials

http://www.dpreview.com

You can write me on my e-mail if you have question. I'm learning and discovering SLR so maybe I could help you.

Stay well, Dejan