Off-Topic: Any Photogs here?

I'm somewhere between n00b and hobbyist with a Nikon L840 (yep, mode select style point 'n' shoot). I'm getting a Canon something with a couple of lenses as a long-term loan from my sister soon. She's had it on a shelf doing nothing for years, waiting for enough free time to start learning to shoot with it.

Never been published, have never sought to be.

My primary subjects are anything and everything little. Only use natural lighting, usually in reprehensible ways. Just over the past couple months, I've been focusing a bit on doing landscapes.

I have a few recent threads of pictures from hiking trails, so much of my recent shots are easily perused there.

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Not bad at all considering equipment!

Good to hear you'll be into a DSLR for a bit. You won't want to go back, that's for sure.

Check into Godox for affordable lighting. Not sure if they have a ring light for macro/micro (insects and small subjects) but they probably do. Thanks for contributing!

stylus LG

A lovely tulip :)

'Phone camaras, compacts etc., are all bullshit.

Real photography is about catching the light - photons

Screwing around with fones & shit, irregardless the spec. is bullshit.

You require good glass or you're just fucking around, so, it's a D.S.L.R. or you're a bust .

Wow, that ladybug pic is absolutely amazing, great job!

I was a national award-winning magazine photog for 30 years.

Don't think to hard about equipment. It's not what you got but what you do with it. I have Nikon but only because most of what I shoot has been studio. I would prefer Canon if I was shooting outside but that is just me and what you have is fine.

Lighting is all about style and how I light is different than most photogs. I light with many hard lights and very thin strip lights but I wouldn't recommend shooting that way because of the learning curve, and make-up artists hate that.

I pulled all my shots off the web when people started stealing them but the magazines I shot for may have them in their archived section.

Many people starting off shoot for stock image websites.

How it worx for pros now is to develop a style, post your work on Instagram or similar, and get huge amounts of followers. Clients like photogs with followers. It's free advertising for them.