Stupid question here - what's the benefit of the lens shade thing that goes
on the end of the lens?  Is this something that is needed, or can I leave
it off?

hi ive just taken a great photo i believe and even got photo of the day
on one site please go to www.soaphoto.com become a user and go to
contest then at the bottom search glowing dragon (the title) if you
like it please vote! my name on there is ilovephoto

Welcome to the daily obligatory "I want help choosing a lens" thread -
sorry :p
I want a macro lens.
I don't want to pay more than £300 (but could be convinced) and

Hi y'all.... went to see BB King last Saturday. We were sitting on the 4th
row and all I had was my ist DL with Pentax 75-300mm. I've only used the
built-in flash, but I still had to change the ISO to 1600 or sometimes 3200,
and the photo's are still too dark. Can somebody tell me ...

Where can I find some sample photos taken with the Nikon 200mm macro
lens?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I invite for observing my gallery of photo:
www.photopio.cba.pl
Please, express opinion
Piotr Was

Hello. You are invited to come to my new photo collections.
Interesting items ranging from card collections to micro
carvings.
Appreciate any comments you have.

I just received a D200 camera and I can't make the built in flash to
automatically work when it's needed. I'm using the "P" mode . But even that
I used the dial to selectflash enabled while pressing the FLASH button, at
the time I frame a picture on a dark place, it just takes ...

Any ideas on how to sell my photos? I've reseached a # of magazines.
Should I build a website? How about art festivals? Other ways?
Jim

Hello all, I recently bought a FujiFilm FinePix S9000 and I am looking
to get into photography.  Are there any resources: books, websites,
blogs, etc that I can go to and learn about photograhy?

stock Photography database looking for new images. Free to submit.  And
you  could probably make some sales.
Looking for new Photographers
www.aus-photographers.com

i shoot my artwork. they are oils and there are lots of reflections.
a pro finally showed me how to shoot artwork. he had polarizer filters
on both his lamps and his camera....he rotated his lamp filters until
he got as much glare/reflection out as possible, and then when he

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zwaarddrager/sets/72057594122040142/
Comment if you like.
Rutger

I received 2 identical photos: pic01 (54 kb) and pic 02 (141 kb).
I opened them in Photoshop CS2.
pic01 was 5,125 x 6,667 inches with a resolution of 72px / inch and 369
x 480 px for a total of 518,9k

I've dodged the whole topic of color management until now, because I
rarely print and the results have "acceptable" so far.  No more.  I
recently captured my best shot in 20 years, and I'm having a devil of a
time getting it to print right.