Hi, New to photography

[Rees Keep]

Hi

My name is Rees and im from London. I am new to photography but a friend of mine reccomended this site due to its good members and constructive comments. Looking forward to seeing everyones work.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Hi Rees, welcome to the forum!
Who's being spreading these rumours about us then
Hopefully we can help smooth your road into photo taking

 

[Rees Keep]

Haha, Vic Shaw,

I'm a complete newbie so i need all the help i can get!

 

[Brian Moore]

Hi Rees,...what camera(s) do you have?

 

[Emma Pugh]

Welcome Rees, looking forward to seeing some of your work
You'll enjoy it on here, I'm sure!

 

[Allan Batchelor]

Welcome to the mad house Rees. You sure will get some good help here

 

[Rees Keep]

I have just got a Nikon D3100, with a std 18mm-55mm lense,i will be investing in some more lenses when i get the cash. I'm not sure what type of pictures i like. I'm keen on street photgraphy but im open to all sorts!

Thanks for the friendly welcome!

 

[Kev Pugh]

Welcome Rees just like to add my tuppence worth, this is a good place to be as I'm sure you'll find..post and join in there is much to learn and more to be learned from some of the old lags on here.

 

[Pete Askew]

Hi Rees and welcome to RPF. I'm sure you'll enjoy RPF and, with Vic to help, I'm sure you'll find your new hobby very rewarding. Looking forward to seeing some images and discussing photography with you.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Hi Rees,

I just joined here a couple of weeks ago, and have benefited enormously from the experience here. Great place to hang out and share stuff. No question is too dumb, no photo too awful!

See you around the place.

Rob

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Welcome Welcome Rees!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Welcome Rees, glad you found us

Lots of lovely stuff to see on here, lots of great advice, and everyone loves looking and talking about photos.

Great new hobby by the way

 

[Ralph Thornton]

Welcome Rees,
You might be looking forward to see out photos but we're looking forward to seeing yours!

 

[Thomas brookes]

Welcome Rees.

 

[Vic Shaw]

Welcome Rees,

Told you they were a nice bunch ( I don't know why they let me join!)


Vic

 

[Larry Bolch]

I have just got a Nikon D3100, with a std 18mm-55mm lense,i will be investing in some more lenses when i get the cash. I'm not sure what type of pictures i like. I'm keen on street photgraphy but im open to all sorts!

No need to complicate life in the beginning. Learn the D3100 and use the lens until you reach the point where you fully understand what it can not do. Then, you will be able to define the problem and search for the best solution. A lot of enthusiastic beginners are eager to buy one of everything, (Save the Whales—collect the complete set!) and end up being totally confused by all the choices and without the knowledge to choose wisely. You can create great photographs with what you presently own.

One more tip. The best time to learn is when you have absolutely nothing to shoot. The worst time to learn is when you are seriously shooting and wanting to bring back good images. There is a dichotomy—camera operation and photography and on an entry level either will distract from the other. Just as a musician spends endless hours practicing and learning between performances, so does a photographer between shoots. It is in practice time that you can try stuff and make mistakes and learn from them. Time spent with camera and manual in hand, just trying stuff and learning, is time extremely well spent. When you are on a shoot, you can work with confidence, using what you have learned.

 

[Brodie Jackson]

Welcome Rees im sure you'll love it here and learn alot!

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Welcome Rees,

This is a great place for learning and good advice. Enjoy.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Good advice Larry!
I used to say similar to people in the shop ... Even with things as simple as batteries! People would often want to buy a second one, my recomendation was alway the same - come back and buy a second one when you find the first is running low on you between possible charges.
Same goes for all other kit as Larry says ... People often wish they had more zoom or wider angle but in reality will very rarely use those lenses ...
The only thing that I would say that sorta goes against this advice is again somthing I would suggest to customers when inwas asked what would make a good second lens! Instead of buying a lens that will seemingly limit you less ie a tele or wide zoom. Buy a lens that in some ways will limit you more ie a prime lens!
Nikon make a 35mm 1.8 afs, that would be the obvious choice for a second lens IMO!
What a lens like that does is takes away the ability to zoom, you are forces to frame with a fixed field of view.
Your compositional skills will improve a lot quicker this way ... The added bonus is that it is a lot better for takin low light photos and can offer a nice shallow depth of field