Denver Amateur Weekly Photo: First From Tommy

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While sitting in the DIA airport with a popular photography magazine in hand, I read about an amateur photographer who wanted to share his photos with others and in return have them share their photos with each other. The idea of having a blog where myself and others who enjoy taking pictures could share those images, while at the same time offer up suggestions, ideas and techniques sounded fun to me. So I decided to create Denver Amateur Weekly Photo where everyone is welcome to share their ideas, techniques and photos.

Here's how it works: Simply post your blog each week with a picture you would like to share (don't worry, there is no obligation to do it every week, but the more you do it, the more fun we make the site). When adding your picture, tell us what camera you used, angle you took the picture, the location of the picture, date / time and the camera settings / techniques you've used. That simple.....its all about having FUN.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

First From Tommy

Hey guys, Tommy here.

I figured I should introduce myself (chances are you already know me).

While I'm at it I'm going to post, for you, a photo I took a couple months after I got my first DSLR, a Nikon D3100.

I took it in Las Vegas outside the Aria Hotel. There was long wall with water streaming down and few flowers. There was one bloom kinda standing alone so I decided to snap it. The light was low so I had the aperture as open as I could get it with the 18-55mm kit lens I had at the time, f4.6 I believe. I have the ISO set to 800 to help so the image has some noise.

After I got back home I decided to try my cool new investment, Adobe Lightroom. In Lightroom I cleaned up a little of that noise. I wasn't sure what I was doing at the time so the changes I made are minimal but they worked for me. Let me know what you think.

I'm going to try to post more soon and I'll try to go into more technical detail about how I got the results I did.

Also I might be adding links to articles that helped me as I was learning about composition and camera settings and such. Until then, feel free to comment. (^_^)

1 comment:

Kirk BestJanuary 25, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Tommy, great pic. I really like the busy background of the water looking almost chaotic and the calm and beauty of the flower in the foreground. Looking forward to those useful articles.
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