G'day all ... pls tell me what you think

[pseudonym]

Hi all

I'm a newly registered member of smugmug and (as you can no doubt see) a first time poster here.

I'm a hobbyist photographer, more of a collector of memories than anything else, (by no stretch a professional, amateur is even a bit much :D) but I am always interested in learning new things and getting generally better at things I do, so if anyone wants to swing by http://pseudonym.smugmug.com (http://pseudonym.smugmug.com)and give me some general pointers on what makes a good shot I'd be most appreciative.

My pics are mostly of my travels around the place, one I particularly like is this one of a stave church in Norway, what do y'all think ?? I took it with an old olympus point and shoot about 3 years ago

http://pseudonym.smugmug.com/gallery/387856/1/15464756/Small

cheers

Colin
edit: guess I can't link to my pics with a standard account.

[dkapp]

Welcome to Smugmug and DGrin!

This is a great shot. I can see why its one of your favorites.

You can link to pictures w/ the standard account. Just make sure you have exit links turned on.

Dave

[pseudonym]

Welcome to Smugmug and DGrin!

This is a great shot. I can see why its one of your favorites.

You can link to pictures w/ the standard account. Just make sure you have exit links turned on.

Dave well thanks for that dkapp, external links ya say? well let me take a look around my account settings before I make myself look like a dork by asking how I do that :D

Colin
Edit: think I figured it out (and it wasn't in my account settings after all :wink)

here's the test, this was taken on my new pentax optio s5i, I was messing with the filters on it and trying to set the apeture(sp?) to blur the background/end of the fence (at least I got the filter to work :dunno). I am still getting the hang of using my new (first) digital camera)

http://pseudonym.smugmug.com/photos/15455938-S.jpg

[fish]

well thanks for that dkapp, external links ya say? well let me take a look around my account settings before I make myself look like a dork by asking how I do that :D

Colin

Welcome Colin. It's really quite easy to "direct-link" images from smugmug to dgrin.

At the bottom of each image in smugmug, is a button "Share with friends, forums". Click that. At the bottom of the next page you will see a series of hyperlinks, one for each size image you'd like to post. Copy the link that you want.

Then, go to dgrin, create a post, and when you want to post an image, type...

[i]paste the link you copied from smugmug here [/img ]

You'll want to omit the spaces after the g in each of the brackets. I inserted those so the tags would show up as text in the example.

There are other ways to insert images too, but harder to explain. :)

[gus]

Bloody 'ell...another 0zzie :clap bout flamin' time. Welcome to Dgrin colin.

[pseudonym]

cheers for the welcome guys,

fish: yeah I read the thread about putting images into posts that's in another post not so far down this page I thought I had it squared away ... I was wrong :D

got it sorted now though, including how to turn on the linking thing.

Humungus: do I still count as an aussie if I don't live in Australia (I'll be ex-pat in 16 days)

thanks again

Colin

[gus]

cheers for the welcome guys,

fish: yeah I read the thread about putting images into posts that's in another post not so far down this page I thought I had it squared away ... I was wrong :D

got it sorted now though, including how to turn on the linking thing.

Humungus: do I still count as an aussie if I don't live in Australia (I'll be ex-pat in 16 days)

thanks again

Colin

As long as you eat heaps of vegemite & drink your coffee through a tim tam....you will remain an 0zzie.

[Michiel de Brieder]

cute!! What a nice tasteful, colour rich photo!!
:wave Welcome to dgrin, may you enjoy many fine photographic moments!

[MuskyDude]

I can never explain it, but some shots have a "magical" feel to them it seems, this is one of them. I like the richness and saturation, and the compostion. :thumb

AJ

[Angelo]

what are exit links?

[Angelo]

Welcome Colin.

Some very nice photographs. You will no doubt pick up many pointers here from a great group of people and perhaps share some of your own.

[digismile]

what are exit links?
What dkapp meant to write was "External Links"

[pseudonym]

What dkapp meant to write was "External Links"
yup, and it really is as simple to turn them on as fish says (in case there were any doubts :D).

Thanks for all your kind words guys, as I said that pic of the church is probably my favourit of my 3-400+ pic I took while in Europe, and it is not at all unfair to say it was a complete fluke (the rest of my galleries are not particularly spectacular :wink). I would love to really 'know' what makes a picture like that look cool where other ones are not so cool, might make it easier to do it again that way :D.

all in good fun

Colin