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[shaggy1969]

Welcome new members

to the 'Photography and Arts Forum'

We are a varied bunch of photographers on this forum,ranging from rank amateurs to seasoned pro's.If you are an amateur seeking to advance your

photography skills, then there will always be folk here to give you advice.If you are a more experienced photographer, then we would appreciate it if

you could share your knowledge by giving advice if asked.

The main focus points are.... share your images of Thailand,help each other and to enjoy the wonderful world of photography together !!!

Why not drop a quick message to introduce yourself to the other members? I am sure you will get a warm welcome.

Any questions? feel free to ask.

[tolsti]

Just been able to post my first photos to this forum thanks to Shaggys advice!.... I take photos of anything to be honest, food, people, birds, plants.... anything that catches my eye or reminds me of my childhood in Africa.

Equipment is very basic, either iPad or Nikon Coolpix L120... one day I will get better kit.

Amazed by the skills of some people on here.

[Goompa]

Welcome tolsti

I am sure we all are looking forward to viewing your shared images , nice to see a new poster on the threads

Cheers

Goompa

[shaggy1969]

A warm welcome from me also tolsti,good to have you on board !

[Kan Win]

And a Big Thank You also to shaggy1969 for pinning this thread.

I believe this pinned topic is not only for "Newbies", but also for our older ThaiVisaDotCom members, not in age, but as being a member of ThaiVisaDotCom.

Welcome one and all. Likes shall be provided.

Win

Edited April 20, 2015 by shaggy1969

[Tywais]

Here is a list of themed topics that may be helpful for new and old members to locate subjects of interest.

1. Sunsets And Sunrises
2. People and their Motorbikes in Thailand(images)
3. Markets And Stalls
4. Street And Road Shots Anywhwere In Thailand!
5. Nature
6. People and their Pickups in Thailand (images)
7. Etans-images of them in Thailand
8. Macro Photography
9. Flowers!
10. Cats & Dogs
11. Faces of Thailand
12. Images of people and their bicycles in Thailand(please include at least one bicycle and one person)
13. Food Photography
14. Trees
15. Challenge "Moon Shot"
16. For The Birds !
17. Statues & Other Still Life Photography
18. Cars
19. Water Scenes !
20. bus and truck pictures
21. Wat A Place
22. Night Shots, Outdoor In Thailand
23. Life's A Beach In Thailand
24. Just a weed
25. Funny sign in Thailand
26. Clouds
27. Abstract photography
28. Street art (graffiti) of the world
29. Alleyways
30. Traditional Street Photography
31. Your most boring photograph
32. Cityscapes
33. Umbrellas in Thailand
34. Toilets In Thailand
35. Trains, passengers and trainstations
36. Technology in Thailand
37. Old Houses
38. Flying / airplanes
39. Windows, Doors and Gates!
40. Wide world
41. Portraiture
42. Up the workers!
43. "Selfies"
44. Trash in Thailand
45. Sports in Thailand
46. Panoramas Anyone?
47. Festivals and Fairs in Thailand
48. Space and star photos
49. Bridges In Thailand
50. Everyday Life in the hills
51. Caves of Thailand
52. Creepy Crawlies
53. Thai Smile
54. High Dynamic Range (HDR)
55. Fish & Aquariums

[shaggy1969]

Great post there Tywais,many thanks for taking the time and effort to put that post together.

[Chonburiram]

After geting bored with the "upper part" of TVF, I scrolled down and found "Photography and the Arts". Nice here!

Need some time to acclimate and not critizise too much...

[shaggy1969]

Hi Chonburiram and welcome!

Good to have you on board

[Goompa]

After geting bored with the "upper part" of TVF, I scrolled down and found "Photography and the Arts". Nice here!

Need some time to acclimate and not critizise too much...

Nice to see we at least made the list , I mean being down the " Bottom " as apposed to being up in the " Mainstream " and all .

I wonder where I would end up if I were to scroll down from where I am ?

Oops , I remember now , I began in the " General " component , and then scrolled up ! Silly me .

Welcome Chon B

I hope you wont get too bored here .

Cheers

[PeteCM]

Hi all,

Moved to Chiang Mai recently and have taken up photography as a hobby. Always looking for new locations to practice, and would love to hear from anyone in the area who would be interested in sharing tips and locations.

Shooting with Nikon D750 and a variety of primes and zooms. Post processing with Lightroom 6.

Hope to learn and share with members of the forum.

Best regards,

Peter

[villagefarang]

Hi all,

Moved to Chiang Mai recently and have taken up photography as a hobby. Always looking for new locations to practice, and would love to hear from anyone in the area who would be interested in sharing tips and locations.

Shooting with Nikon D750 and a variety of primes and zooms. Post processing with Lightroom 6.

Hope to learn and share with members of the forum.

Best regards,

Peter

It might be a good idea to check out the photography sub forum.

[Tywais]

Hi all,

Moved to Chiang Mai recently and have taken up photography as a hobby. Always looking for new locations to practice, and would love to hear from anyone in the area who would be interested in sharing tips and locations.

Shooting with Nikon D750 and a variety of primes and zooms. Post processing with Lightroom 6.

Welcome to the Photo forum Peter. Very nice camera the D750 and really looking for some photos from it. I had been reading reviews on it and had a chance to hold one with the 24-120mm f/4 kit lens on it. I found the weight to be a bit too much for me though.

[PeteCM]

Thanks for the warm welcome! Yes, theD750 is a bit heavy, especially with a big lens, but a Caryspeed sling helps take the strain. Alternatively, primes are the way to go - 50g, 85g are great options, as is the 18-35 if weight is an issue. Best regards, Pete

[ThomasVoland]

Hi,

I do fashion and beauty shots. I am big fan of beauty dishes and grids .

[shaggy1969]

Hello ThomasVoland and welcome to the photo forum.

Looking forward to seeing your work!

[Johntwo]

Hi my name John and I have just joined Thaivisa. I took up photography about a year and a half ago and I look forward to picking up some tips here. I have had a look through some of the photographs on the site and they are stunning so it will give me great pleasure if I can get anywhere near them. Thanks all in advance for any tips I might pick up and for the great images here. I will put a few up on sunsets just to start off

john

[mikeoffenbach]

Nice here, but I feel a kind of helpless after reading your post for new members. There is a description for how to attaching a picture, but.......I have been looking for a button/link to open a message-form without success. Sure, I have found this answering-form here, but cannot edit the topic, so there must be something else. Please help.

Cheers and thanks

MikeOffenbach

[sometime]

Hi my name John and I have just joined Thaivisa. I took up photography about a year and a half ago and I look forward to picking up some tips here. I have had a look through some of the photographs on the site and they are stunning so it will give me great pleasure if I can get anywhere near them. Thanks all in advance for any tips I might pick up and for the great images here. I will put a few up on sunsets just to start off

john

Welcome to the forum John, looking forward to seeing your sunsets.

[mikeoffenbach]

Hello all,

after my first rather helpless post I received some kind assistance from Linda of Thaivisa Support Team, so I try again......and introduce myself herewith.

My name is Michael Grosskopf. I am retired, Dutch origin, was working worldwide for a german compamy. Now I live mainly in Bangkok but I still spend part time with consulting business relations in other Asian countries

During nearly 50 years I have been using a couple of fully non automatic East-German 35 mm Exaktas (see attached pic) with Zeiss lenses and accessories. I still have all that stuff but switched to a digital Nikon D3100 in 2013. Today I replaced my beautiful but too heavy and awkward vintage T4-Vivitar Zoom 90-230 (was already in use on my Exaktas) with a Nikkor 55-300.

Favourite subjects? Hard to determine. I am using my camera for many opportunities, making images of family, job, music (I have been playing jazz), macro, landscapes. Now, with my D3100 even movies are possible and the software "blender" enables mixing with any other format, even from Smartphones.

cheers

Mike

[Fiddlesticks]

Hello all,

after my first rather helpless post I received some kind assistance from Linda of Thaivisa Support Team, so I try again......and introduce myself herewith.

My name is Michael Grosskopf. I am retired, Dutch origin, was working worldwide for a german compamy. Now I live mainly in Bangkok but I still spend part time with consulting business relations in other Asian countries

During nearly 50 years I have been using a couple of fully non automatic East-German 35 mm Exaktas (see attached pic) with Zeiss lenses and accessories. I still have all that stuff but switched to a digital Nikon D3100 in 2013. Today I replaced my beautiful but too heavy and awkward vintage T4-Vivitar Zoom 90-230 (was already in use on my Exaktas) with a Nikkor 55-300.

Favourite subjects? Hard to determine. I am using my camera for many opportunities, making images of family, job, music (I have been playing jazz), macro, landscapes. Now, with my D3100 even movies are possible and the software "blender" enables mixing with any other format, even from Smartphones.

cheers

Mike

Hi Mike and welcome to the photo (and arts) forum! It's always a real pleasure to see new faces and especially new submissions from said faces. Hope you put that 3100 to good use and start sharing some of your photos with us. We're all amateurs so there should not be any worry about sharing your images.

Regards,

Stix

[nongai]

Hi.... my dad was on here before but now he is not. We both use the same computer and have a 1 TB HDD each and we share cameras and gear. (I think he uses my account sometimes to look at stuff on TV but I don't mind.) He teaches me all about computer and photography.

[shaggy1969]

Hi there nongai

It looks like your father was/is a good teacher.

On behalf of myself and the other members of this forum,I would like to offer you a warm welcome to our Photography and Arts forum.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work!!!

[jim cortesos]

Does any one know where there is a cheap photo lab that develop black and white 35/120 film and makes contact proof sheets / prints?

[Tywais]

Does any one know where there is a cheap photo lab that develop black and white 35/120 film and makes contact proof sheets / prints?

Better to ask your question here - Photography Equipment & Tools

And where you are located to help those in that area to be able to answer.

[Paulp]

Hello Everyone,

Photography is my hobby that keeps me busy in my retirement years...In other words, keeps me out of the bars

I retired to Thailand 13 years ago and I love living here.

I see life in Thailand as a land that is full of Colors, Emotions and Love. I try to express these Three visions in every photo I take.

I cannot say I have one specialty in Photography, I can say that I really don't want to limit myself to one type of Photography. Because of this you might find areas of Photography that I am strong in and other areas that I am weak in. Doesn't really matter to me... If I like it I am going to take it. Praise me or blaze me and as they say in Thailand "Up To You"

Thank you Shaggy1969 for inviting me to join this forum. I hope I can figure out how to post photos so I can get started sharing my work with everyone.

A quick question:

1. Can I refer the address of the photos location in Flickr so it can be viewed there? or is there a better way to share my photos?

Paul (or my flickr name is Thai Expat)

[Paulp]

Hello Everyone,

Photography is my hobby that keeps me busy in my retirement years...In other words, keeps me out of the bars

I retired to Thailand 13 years ago and I love living here.

I see life in Thailand as a land that is full of Colors, Emotions and Love. I try to express these Three visions in every photo I take.

I cannot say I have one specialty in Photography, I can say that I really don't want to limit myself to one type of Photography. Because of this you might find areas of Photography that I am strong in and other areas that I am weak in. Doesn't really matter to me... If I like it I am going to take it. Praise me or blaze me and as they say in Thailand "Up To You"

Thank you Shaggy1969 for inviting me to join this forum. I hope I can figure out how to post photos so I can get started sharing my work with everyone.

A quick question:

1. Can I refer the address of the photos location in Flickr so it can be viewed there? or is there a better way to share my photos?

Paul (or my flickr name is Thai Expat)

OK..I think I have it figured out how to post a photo. Here's one to start with:

[shaggy1969]

Hi there Paul and welcome to the photo forum.

I am so happy that you accepted my invitation to come and join us here !!!

In answer to your question about posting,the normal practice is to show your work on the forum itself and I would appreciate it if you could try to keep the maximum

size no bigger than 1024.You may also add a link to the larger version of your image.If you have any difficulties with uploading your images,don't hesitate to ask.

Cheers

Shaggy

[shaggy1969]

OK..I think I have it figured out how to post a photo. Here's one to start with:

That's an excellent start and a great shot.

If you would like to upload a larger size file straight from your Flickr page,this is the way that I do it.

Click on the image that you want share from your main photostream.That takes you onto a single view of your chosen image.

Next,look at the bottom right of the image,you should see four symbols.Click on the one that looks like and underlined downward

facing arrow,that will open a small drop down menu.In the drop down menu click on all files.Clicking on the all files option will take

you onto downloading option.The first image usually shown there is a file size of 1024,which is an ideal size for posting.Right click

on the image and choose 'copy image',from there you can paste the image directly into the post you want to make in your topic of

choice.

That's the way I do it,maybe some of the other members have a different or easier method,but it works for me.

[Paulp]

OK..I think I have it figured out how to post a photo. Here's one to start with:

That's an excellent start and a great shot.

If you would like to upload a larger size file straight from your Flickr page,this is the way that I do it.

Click on the image that you want share from your main photostream.That takes you onto a single view of your chosen image.

Next,look at the bottom right of the image,you should see three symbols.Click on the one that looks like and underlined downward

facing arrow,that will open a small drop down menu.In the drop down menu click on all files.Clicking on the all files option will take

you onto downloading option.The first image usually shown there is a file size of 1024,which is an ideal size for posting.Right click

on the image and choose 'copy image',from there you can paste the image directly into the post you want to make in your topic of

choice.

That's the way I do it,maybe some of the other members have a different or easier method,but it works for me.

Thanks for the advice Shaggy. That is exactly what I did with the night shot of BKK. It worked fine and really easy to do.