Forget photography mate and get into jewellery. Get yourself a nice little Market Stall and then get on to the Chinese selling sites (AliExpress is fantastic) I could give you hundreds of examples but here is one from the famous Tiffany & Co at 450dollars (250 quid) - I almost bought the "Child Bride" one for our Silver Wedding. please log in to view this image And here's exactly the same from AliExpress using the same photo's even (I bought one for her (and told her) and they are the same Sterling Silver 925 stamp) for 11 dollars (6 quid). please log in to view this image Yes, there's money to be made folks and next time you see something in a Jewelers shop remember that they are supplied by the same Chinese suppliers that are available to you on the internet at a thousand percent less at least.
do you have any pics online that you'd care to show us? i wonder if there is any gender difference between subjects chosen by female and male photographers? i guess they're bringing different things to the party. i ask because i know a female artist and i love her landscape and seascape paintings, but her animals and people ones didn't do a thing for me.
Amateur Photographer requires female models for artistic & tasteful nude shots. No fees offered but free coffee. Just insert that on Craigslist or Gumtree and you are away. A 30 quid camera from Cash Converters should be enough.
great rays CC - this is one of mine - its a bit lossy as i needed to lower the resolution to fit on here Taken at Paull View attachment 34173
Most digital cameras available today enable almost anyone to take decent pictures of whatever subject, the fun comes in learning about the various settings to get the best out of the camera for a given scene. I've still a lot to learn and never seem to have the time to get to know the camera better to enable better pictures. But as with most technology something better is always around the corner and whilst my camera is rather old now it still takes a decent pictures but cameras have moved on to HD which make my pictures seem anaemic.
Eyup Gents & Ladies Appreciated your help on here. I ended up buying the Nikon D3200 & have got well into it. I've also, after reading some of your comments started a three part (28 week) photography course at night class so I can get get to know & understand what the **** I'm doing as I am totally clueless. Thanks again SCB
I have a better idea for a past time. Pigeon shooting. The legal extermination of flying vermin. And if you shoot it in the right place with an air rifle you get to torture it a bit too. What's not to like?
Good luck with the photography course, I'd be interested in your thoughts on it. I've always wanted to do one but never had the time/money. You taken any decent pics you'd like to share? Try joining a photo share site like flickr too. Get lots of advice and ideas off that.
Under no circumstances go down the bridge camera route....they are a jack of all trades & master of none. In an earlier existence work wise my job entailed a lot of photography & the main things we learned were that sensor size & lens quality were more important than anything else. The bigger the sensor the more light it gathers & thus the less image noise there is in poorer conditions & a real lens will allow more light to reach the sensor with less distortion. A bridge camera sensor is usually the same size as that in a compact point & shoot & the optical zoom while better than a compact cannot achieve anything like the sharp low distortion image of a good SLR lens. As mentioned do not get caught up in megapixels, for most uses around 14 is more than enough, and linked to sensor size more megapixels means smaller photosites, less light reaching each & more noise. It is also worth mentioning a good lens on an average camera will give better results than an average lens ion a good camera http://www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/sensor-size-explained-1042035 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_sensor_format
Have fun although my experience of photo courses is that they concentrate on post processing software than the real art of photography
nikon d32 is a decent camera but you can't just stick to the automatic features, you need to learn the uses of manual like **** above me said, let's see your work photography is actually a beautiful art
I actually bought the Nikon D3300 last month, so very similar (if not exactly the same) to yours Ben. I am probably even more clueless as to what I am doing. At the moment I am using the guide settings to take some pics, although the dogs are getting pretty irate at having to sit and pose again.... I did take it to the coast last week to take some pics before and after we went jet skiing there. So got some pics of Pelicans, trees and water. More water... more pelicans with a blurry background ...a boat, pelicans in some strange drawing type shot. Actually, just realised my Avatar is that exact occasion, so shows how bad my pics are. I wouldn't mind doing what you are doing and actually getting someone to show me which way round it is supposed to be.
One thing I would advise is to invest a little time cataloging the pictures you actually take although a lot of info is created at the moment the pictue is taken (Exif) its all technical stuff. What you need is something simple maybe the date and place the picture was taken just so that when you look back at your pictures you don't end up thinking 'now where was that taken?' Believe me I've done it and you need to be ruthless in your archiving or you will end up with lots of medioca pictures clogging up your hard drive, have fun.
Alternatively you could use a memory card with built in geotagging (Eyefi Explore) This adds a location tag to your EXIF data at the time you take your photograph
They are not the same made by the same factories, they are cheap knock offs made in Chinese factories who then nick the image from the official site. Many items marked .925 sterling silver from China are nothing of the sort (often silver plate or tibetan silver with a silver content of 10% or lower), the hallmarks can be as fake as the product
