Hi I'm New!

[Jessica Kirste]

Hi everyone! I am new, well I been a member for a while but mostly been reading up to this point & decided its time to join in. I do regonize some names here. Since you all already know my name I guess I can skip that part and go on to say that I love taking pictures of birds, but beside birds I also like going to aquaruims specially those with dolphins, I love taking macros and flowers, HDR and tonemapping are fun but I at times have issues with it tho I would like to learn it further and I am currently reading a book about it. My favorite duck is the wood duck. :)

I always enjoyed taking pictures and started out using a Canon Rebel X 35mm camera with the one lens we had which is a 35-80mm. I got my first digital camera in 2007 and that is when I really got into nature photography. Digital changes everything completely and its amazing what you can do! That first camera which I do still use for birds and the far away stuff is the Canon PowerShot S5 IS, super zoom point & shoot camera with the 12x optical zoom, I have the 1.5x teleconverter for it which basically makes it 600mm, but it does has some draw backs of course. :P In August after saving forever I purchased my first DSLR, the Canon EOS 40D and I have the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II, Tamron 90mm macro f/2.8 and my old 35-80mm f/4-5.6 lens. I mostly use the macro and my 50mm. I am currently in the process of saving for the Canon 100-400mm. =)

Well that is me and look forward to posting with you all, sorry for my rather long introduction lol..

[Katie Rupp]

Welcome, Jessica! Looking forward to seeing your work.

[Mike Moats]

Hey Jessica, a big welcome to BPN, hope to see you in the macro forum, have fun.

[Alfred Forns]

Big Warm Welcome Jessica !!! Looking forward to seeing your images !! ... any questions just ask we are all here help and its always a treat !!!!

[Lance Peters]

Big warm welcome Jessica!!!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Welcome Jessica, the tamron 90 is a nice lens with great Bokeh, and the 1-400 is a really sharp lens with great colours. Looking forward to seeing some of your posts.

[Nick Palmieri]

Welcome Jessica!

[Jessica Kirste]

Thanks everyone for the welcomes! :)

[Bill Jobes]

Welcome, Jessica.

Looking forward to seeing your posts soon ! :)

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

Welcome Jessica, if you can't get the help and advice you need here, it won't be available anywhere.

Love your Avatar.

[Dave Woeller]

Welcome Jessica, I am also from New Jersey, and since we're getting pounded with snow right now I'm here gaining more knowledge from the comments and critiques. You're gonna love it here. The contributors really are here to help.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Welcome aboard Jessica! Glad you took the decision to start participating. Lots to learn, and lots of fun!!

P.S. My main gear is also the 40D & 100-400...you're gonna love it when you do get that lens :-)

[Tony Whitehead]

Welcome, Jessica. Great introduction. Looking forward to seeing some of your birds in ETL or Avian.

[Marina Scarr]

Welcome aboard Jessica. Looking forward to seeing some of your pictures soon in one of the forums. Marina

[James Shadle]

Howdy and Welcome to BPN!

[Roger Clark]

Another welcome!
Roger

[Jessica Kirste]

Welcome Jessica, I am also from New Jersey, and since we're getting pounded with snow right now I'm here gaining more knowledge from the comments and critiques. You're gonna love it here. The contributors really are here to help.

I actually barely got any snow from that storm but looks like were gonna get it from the one that is coming tonight so ill likely be spending a lot of time on here this week and will post some photos! :)