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From: "Kenton Brede" <[email protected]>
> I feel like I'm hemorrhaging money. LOL It's sad but true.
It's only the beginning!!! :-)
I know next to nothing about photography. I've read "Understanding
Exposure" by Bryan Peterson and "The Digital Photography Book" by
Scott Kelby; both have been a good introduction I think. I'm
currently reading "Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography" by Brenda
Tharp. Next on the list is "The Photographer's Eye" by Michael
Freeman. If anyone has suggestions as to which other books I should
be reading, I'm all ears.
It's excellent to read books for basic understanding and grounding with the
equipment etc, and I support that but do try to start taking pictures as
soon as possible. That's the fun part and you'll always learn by doing.
With digital it's much more affordable to learn this way.
I've never used any image manipulation type software other than
Picassa. I'm a Linux user and have evaluated Bibble 5 for a couple
evenings. It's crashed on me a few times and sucks all available
memory and some swap when it imports RAW and builds thumbnails. I
might have to break down and get a MAC at some point, if all Linux
image software is this crash prone. Bibble does have some cool tricks
though. I really like the heal/clone thing but I suppose other
software packages have something similar.
I don't know anything about Linix and compatable software, but some of the
guys on the list do so they'll have to help you.
OK, I do have a question:
Is there a page defining the acronyms used here, like: PESO, GESO,
PAW? If not, could someone enlighten me?
PESO: Picture Every So Often, a solitary picture that you'd like to share
for fun or get critique on.
GESO: Gallery Every So Often: a collection of pictures, say from 6 - 12,
but not everyone holds to that limit, myself included :-)
PAW: Picture A Week: a photographer creates a collection of 52
pictures--one for each week of the year.
Welcome to the list, Kent. Where in the midwest are you from? I'm from
Chicago.
Cheers, Christine
Thanks,
Kent
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