Topic: New digital camera

As some of you know, I was recently doing some research on a relatively inexpensive digital camera. I decided to go with the Canon PowerShot A80, and I finally picked it up this past week. Then, of course, I got sick, so the camera just sat in the box until yesterday. Yesterday I finally got a chance to take it on a test run. I took a whole bunch of pics, and I picked a few of those to put up on my website. If you'd like, you can read my lastest journal entry, which talks a bit about the camera, my experiences with it, and my thoughts about it, or you can just take a look at the pictures.

I am just an amateur photographer, and I don't really know all that much about photography yet, so don't expect too much from these shots. With practice, hopefully, I will get better.

To the talented photographers lurking here in the halls of the Asylum: do you have any suggestions for someone just starting out? Maybe some online resources that will give me some sort of clue as to how to utilize things like "aperture-priority" mode, etc. I have a basic theoretical understanding of what these things mean, but when it actually comes to practical application I'm a bit lost.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[Edit: Oh, I almost forgot--you can click on the pictures to see a larger version in a pop-up window...]

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(Edited by Suho1004 on 04-25-2004 01:04)

hey Suho1004, a good place to start is www.photo.net for me that's pretty much the de-facto website for photographers. There's some good tutorials and people in the forums are usually very helpfull. I have actually written lectures and a whole bunch of stuff on the basics [for my uni photographic society], but i can't find them online anymore ah well.

If you've got some questions i'll try to help as best i can, i've been shooting film for about a yeah and a half now and i'd say i'm getting by ok

http://www.dpchallenge.com

That site has some excellent tutorials.

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Thanks for the links, guys. I'll be checking both of those sites out.

Suho - you have a really good eye for those just being amateur shots. (No criticism, just blatant complements... sometimes we need them too!)

You're probably right though: hard to mess up flowers as long as the light is decent and you center the shot right. I love taking pictures of flowers, they lend themselves to it so well! We have taken all kinds of flower pictures from our garden this spring...

Keep it up - I'm sure it won't take you too long to figure it all out!

(Edited by bodhi23 on 04-26-2004 09:16)

http://www.varp.net/photos/
http://www.vinberg.nu/photography/articles/technique/contrastmasking/contrast_masking.htm
http://luminous-landscape.com/
http://www.carlvolk.com/photoshop03.htm
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/13486-3.html

Some of the links I have.
I specially like the luminous landscape.

Thanks, bodhi

And thanks for those links, viol. Looks like some interesting stuff there.