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Getting Started?

digitalcross

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Hey everyone. I've actually been looking through your pages with deviantart etc..your stuff looks very nice. Hope if you didnt mind i saved some on my computer..Nothing commercial. Just to use for desktops.
How can i get started in photography? I dont want to join a course yet as a) i live in greece now and b) i wont have the time
But camera wise? is digital in?

There are some photos which i see and they are just very inspiring.
Thanks.

God Bless.
 

transparentwarrior

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Well If you saved any of my images thats fine....as long as its just for desktops and stuff...but i doubt you did lol.....but yeah.....as for geting started....i just started in Feb....and yeah....just put you heart in it...and do it as worship and it will come...classes will help.....but i have not taken any yet......and as for didgital or not...i love digital...but there is soemthing about a 35mm and even deveoping you own pictures...its really up to you..most photographers would say 35mm...i woudl say digital is good to start off with...just cause you can do alot of trail and error with out it being so expensive. but yeah.....take care...God bless.


ps. in case youwanted to see my work.. www.transparentwarrior.deviantart.com
 
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The_White

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Anything I post is fairly much public domain all I would ask is that if anyone wanted to use it commercially that they would have the decency to ask me about it first so if I ever post anything decent feel free to use for yourself.

I would say that to stat off you shoud go for a decent digital just so that you can experiment with what works and what doesn't without having to buy film and pay for developing. I use an Olympus C-760 and for my purposes of taking photos of whatever I feel like just 'cause I can it is great.
Instead of taking a cource I would suggest borrowing a decent book from the local library and then going out and playing around, ask people here and at home what they think and be prpared to take some constructive critasism(sp?) you may not become a famous artist out of that but I gather that that isn't your aim.

This pic is actually the best of a series of about 7 of the same dog and is a shot I never would have got with film because I would have taken one and left and the first of the shots was realy bad.
 
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