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Hello folks.
As this is my first post, just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Tom, I live just outside of Chesterfield. Building trailers for living, biker, interested in almost everything that requires learning
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I had a short episode with photography not long ago and would like to get back to it. So far I was just taking it as a hobby, but my aim would be a little bit more professional this time, hence I many be asking fairly few questions.
My photo gear was very basic and consisted of various phones, compacts, even one compact couppled with 16x50 binos, to end up with D5100 + N70-300VR. It was a good set for a beginner, but at the end of using it I felt fairly limited in the field, as I was shooting mainly aircraft. Here is some samples from me
Phone
Compact + binos
D5100
I know I have a lot to learn yet, so please advice me what should I do next. Currently I don't have any camera and would like to get something better than I had (D5100 + N70-300VR),but should I just get body simillar to my last one to get some more practice, or maybe would it be good idea to jump straight to full frame and some proper gear in general? Both options have good and bad sides imho. Getting consumer level body would allow me to shoot in a matter of few weeks and gain some more skills before jumping onto FF. On the other side, FF will take me longer to aquire (much longer, as a guesstimate I'd say about next spring, possibly summer), but will also give me much more to play with. Or maybe third option - consumer level body with few FX lenses and later body upgrade? The system I want to take is Nikon again, as to the subjects - I'd like to photograph humans more than aircraft now. Any advice will be appreciated.
Regards
Tom
As this is my first post, just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Tom, I live just outside of Chesterfield. Building trailers for living, biker, interested in almost everything that requires learning
.I had a short episode with photography not long ago and would like to get back to it. So far I was just taking it as a hobby, but my aim would be a little bit more professional this time, hence I many be asking fairly few questions
.My photo gear was very basic and consisted of various phones, compacts, even one compact couppled with 16x50 binos, to end up with D5100 + N70-300VR. It was a good set for a beginner, but at the end of using it I felt fairly limited in the field, as I was shooting mainly aircraft. Here is some samples from me
Phone
Compact + binos
D5100
I know I have a lot to learn yet, so please advice me what should I do next. Currently I don't have any camera and would like to get something better than I had (D5100 + N70-300VR),but should I just get body simillar to my last one to get some more practice, or maybe would it be good idea to jump straight to full frame and some proper gear in general? Both options have good and bad sides imho. Getting consumer level body would allow me to shoot in a matter of few weeks and gain some more skills before jumping onto FF. On the other side, FF will take me longer to aquire (much longer, as a guesstimate I'd say about next spring, possibly summer), but will also give me much more to play with. Or maybe third option - consumer level body with few FX lenses and later body upgrade? The system I want to take is Nikon again, as to the subjects - I'd like to photograph humans more than aircraft now
. Any advice will be appreciated.Regards
Tom
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