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I have always had a passion for photography and taken some pretty good shots (or so im told) but for Christmas my husband purchased me my dream camera; a Nikon D5000. Doing pretty good with it but dont have the time to sit and read a whole book about it at this point in life. Joined the group to maybe learn some pointers on how to use some of the features and settings on the new cam!!
 
welcome to the forum, you'll get all the help and assistance you need in here - I can't help with the Nikon - I shoot with a Sony Alpha

were a friendly bunch- look forward to seeing some of your shots :thumbs:


Les :D
 
:welcome:

there's a lot of info ''here''.....Ken Rockwell(c)

visited your area of the world once...Boston and NY State
and the town where Norman Rockwell lived....:lol:

lovely scenery and white board houses
 
Thank you all! I am looking forward to conversing and sharing on the forum. I have added a couple of shots, HOWEVER, when trying to upload MOST of the shots i have from my D5000 I am told the file size is too big.....I know there is a way to change that on the camera, but havnt yet learned that. I appreciate the welcomes :0)
 
new2phtgrphy said:
HOWEVER, when trying to upload MOST of the shots i have from my D5000 I am told the file size is too big.....I know there is a way to change that on the camera, but havnt yet learned that....
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dont reduce the size in the camera
the options are.........and I'm sure you will NOW read the manual...:lol:

[actually the Nikon manual is rubbish...get David Busch D5000 off Amazon]

anyway.....1st decision = to shoot RAW or jpeg

the experts suggest RAW as [correctly] you can recover more data from the file as its like a digital negative
BUT you will need some image editing software and understand whats what
and spend 'some' time on the computer converting the RAW image to a jpeg which you can show/download or print

I chose - to get started-- in the shooting menu
jpeg
Fine - quality
Large - size
which will give about a 4MB image, viewable on your PC screen right away, and capable of printing up to A4

I use Photoshop Elements #7 - allows me to tweak and adjust my jpeg image....and as will soon be mentioned :D the jpeg image suffers an IQ reduction every time you save it
well i do my editing [on a copy] and save once ..horses for courses

no doubt I too will use RAW eventually - but there's enough to learn at the beginning as it is..!......:thinking:

so - now you have a 4200x2800 4MB [roughly] image on your PC

with some image editing software you can resize the image [ use a copy]

to 800x600 and use on the web/emails or upload to TP

or resize to say 1024x680 which I upload to PhotoBucket and link to my posts in TP

ALL THE ABOVE is what I do - no doubt others may/will advise different

whatever works for you....:thumbs:
 
Yardbent - Thank you!! I will take your advise and try it!! I do have David Busch D5000 - my best friend actually bought it for me right after i got the camera ....its is very useful and i have learned some from it, just dont have alot of time for reading it (as for the most part i like to spend my free time taking pics lol). I will surely make some more time soon. thanks again for the advise:clap:
 
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