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hi there,
I have discovered a new passion in my life other than my family and that passions is photography.​
I have taken some interesting photographs already and have an extremely base understanding of what i need to do i am only using a fujifilm 6900zoom DSLR and a sony pocket digital camera, as i cannot afford my dream camera (canon EOS 50D).
I am applying to study at college.
But I would love for someone to 'take me under there wing' and explain photography to me any takers?

and thanks for reading!!!
take care
 
Upload your pics to this site and flickr and invite honest, constructive feedback. Also, join a local camera club.
 
Welcome to TP :)

This is a very friendly forum with a lot of knowledgeable posters. Just ask away! And check out the tutorials section below.

Joining a camera club is a good idea (find your local one here http://www.pagb-photography-uk.co.uk/ ) but I'm sorry to say that there, as here, you will find everyone uses a DSLR and your camera is not one of them even though it might look the part. It's basically a compact and, being honest, you will feel left out of much of the debate. That's just the way it tends to be.

Your camera has a very small sensor which limits the range of photographic effects you can get (eg shallow depth of field) and you can't change lenses or build a system. A Canon 50D is a fine thing for sure, but you don't need to spend anywhere near that much. You can get going with a very capable camera indeed for about £400, much less if you buy used - eg a mint Canon 350D with kit lens is only about £200 - keep an eye on the For Sale forums here. If you get something like that, everything you buy for it will fit straight on to a 50D when the time comes.

I like your paintings BTW :D
 
Im not sure how much you may already know but;

I got started by downloading a few DSLR lessons then joining here. Im still in way over my head but heres what I found useful.

I had a sony HD250 (or something, a bridge camera i believe is the term) and the most useful info I found was on Arpertures.

Basically Low is big and High is small :-) Back to front I know.

I followed this rule for the first month or so, If im taking a close up shot use a big (or low number ie 2.5) arperture and if im taking a landscape use a high one.

I would basically switch my camera to its lowest or highest setting and I got some pretty good shots;

There are a few tutorials about depth of field etc and I realise I havnt explained this in the best way but its the way I did things at first and I found I could take some good pictures just to get me started.

Also maybe look up the `rule of thirds` on google.

Finally the tutorials section on this forum can be superb for reading through when you should be doing work :-)
 
The forums and camera clubs do tend to be dominated by DSLRs, and there is a limit to how much of the technical aspects of photography you can explore with a compact..

However, absolutely any camera is perfect for studying the most important (and often most overlooked) aspect of photography.. and that is composition. Even in auto modes using a disposable supermarket camera, a well thought out composition lifts an image away from being a snapshot and produces something special. You can pick it up by looking at images posted here and on Flickr (for example) and deciding which pictures you like and trying to decide what it is that you like about them. The best book on the subject I have found is The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman.
 
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