Hello from West Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:20 am

I signed up some time ago when fuji-forum closed, but never posted. I've no experience with real photography, other than using an old Zenith when I was about 15 (18 years ago) . I started taking an interest again, when I started modifying my Olympus C-310 Zoom for macro stuff. Upgraded that to a Fuji S3000, so I could add filters and extra lenses etc. I now have a finepix S5600 that has given me more manual controls to play with.

I restore old photos for a living, so my photoshop skills help with my mistakes when taking photo's, but I'd rather get the shot right first time. I've had a few images from my stock:xchng account published in books, magazines and brochures, so I'm hoping to improve on that.
http://www.sxc.hu/gallery/chrishoggy

I was offered quite a bit of money for one of my pics ( This one ) a while ago by a London based design company , but I couldn't provide them with a large enough original. So that has pushed me to improve my photography and equipment. Although I enjoy being out and about taking photo's, I really do prefer working in my little DIY macro studio. Don't know what it is about taking macro shots, but it floats my boat :lol:

Anyway enough rambling on, get ready for all my questions on how to improve, and what camera to move up to next :lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:35 pm

Hello Chrishoggy. Welcome to Phototakers.

Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 245 Location: Maryland

Well Welcome Chris!

I like macro photography myself, even though I don't do it nowadays, sigh. But I've done it a little, and it is fun!

I like the blue droplet image, very good!

Jacque