Introduce Yourself

Since everyone else is being shy. Hi everyone, I am Johnny Graham, I hail from Scotland and my background and introduction to photography very much arose from being brought up around some of the amazing scenery in the Highlands of Scotland and wanting to document it to share with friends back down in the city. Fast forward down the years and I'm a landscape obsessed tog who has somehow been coerced into working full time as a portrait and wedding photographer in a family ran studio. Recently returned from Namibia where I had the good fortune to be the official adventure photographer on the Namib550 expedition tracking two Scottish ultra runners running some 500k+ through the immensely photographic Namib Desert for 10 days. Workhorse cameras I use are the Nikon D700 and D800. Plus I have a wee Fujifilm X-E1 I am very much attached too when I'm out walking the dog. Looking forward to planning my involvement in an expedition to Mongolia in the near future!

Hello
Iam from argentina
I enjoy to much in cordillera de los andes between Argentina and chile

Hi everyone, I'm from the San Francisco area. I've been shooting more seriously for a couple of years. I shoot with a Sony A7r currently. I've recently shot in the high mountains of Peru. Currently looking to shoot seascapes in CA.

Hi guys, I'm Stefano from Italy, and I love portraits, reportage and landscapes. I think that travelling is important and it is a great experience, but also very close to us we can find beautiful scenaries. This is two km by bycicle from my home.

hi, this is stephen from australia. i'm just starting as commercial photographer. although landscape photography is not my forte, the art & science of light does intruding me.

nice article, Ryan.

Hello! My name is Justin. I'm 36 years old and I have just recently begun my obsession with photography. I live in Alaska and have a two week on and two week off work schedule which allows me to spend a lot of quality time with my cameras (when I'm not spending it with my children). I have been shooting a Nikon D600 since it came out but this year I have committed myself to B&W film. 35mm and medium format. I am learning the developing and enlarging process. I used to have a garage attached to my house, now it is a darkroom lol! Can't get enough. I am preparing to start a project on dramatic black and white Alaskan beachscapes (not sure if that's a thing but you know what I mean). I am also planning a trip to Denali NP and the Brooks range this summer. Can't wait to get started.

Hello Guys,

to Introduce myself, I'm from Germany and for me photography is my Passion and just a hobby.
I start to shoot 7 years ago...

Most time is used 500px as my platform to share my work but I discovered fstoppers a few month ago and I`m really impressed about the Information's I got and also about the kind People :)

So I shoot from Landscape through People and everything I got in front of my lens.
English isn't my best language so I'm going to improve it with reading and following English photographers :)

Thanks for reading and good light....

https://fstoppers.com/photo/47425

Howzit everyone! Im from Oahu, Hawaii and have been shooting for almost 2 years now. I haven't had any traditional training in photography (except from the University of YouTUBE). I shoot with a Sony a7, old Minolta lenses, ND Throttle adapter and other budget photography equipment.
I used to skateboard on the other side of the lens, then decided to start shooting skating since the knees aren't working as they used to. I work a full time job as a Refrigerant tech and Since becoming a new father I hardly find myself out skating or shooting it on my free time but rather more at the beach or on hikes with my wife and daughter. I do this as a hobby and am here to learn more about the art so i can further my new found obsession of shooting landscapes, my family and everything in between.

Hi, I am a Norwegian, living in south east Norway, some 30 minutes drive outside Oslo. I have always had some interest in photography, ever since I got my first Kodak Instamatic as a 10 year-old, almost 40 years ago. Moving through film based compacts and SLRs I tried to develop my eye over the years, but I was always mostly a family and holiday shooter. And with having to wait for the developed pictures to arrive and no exif info, progress was slow.

Enter the 21st century, and I got my first digital compact camera in 2005. Now I could take more pictures, and look at them and learn from them immediately. And even do magic with them on the computer! So I started to learn faster than I forgot things. About 3 years ago I bought my first DSLR, a Canon 550D that I still use. After that I have starting to take my photography more seriously, going out more often just to take pictures, often planning first what to shoot. I also have been an eager student at University of Youtube, learning from a variety of masters, like Trey Ratcliff, Elia Locardi, Mike Browne and Varina and Jay Patel to name just a few of them.

As for post production and software, I have never owned Photoshop or Lightroom. For the last ten years I have been a Linux addict, so Gimp has been my Photoshop, and after I stared to shoot RAW, Darktable quickly became my RAW developer of choice. I manage well with them, especially since I am using the developer version of Gimp, which supports 16 and 32 bit tiff files. My digital toolbox also contains stuff like Hugin for panoramas, Macrofusion for realistic HDR and I recently bought Neat Image for noise reduction.

My goal is to make nature and landscape images that remind us of the beauty of nature, but not necessarily to show it exactly "as is". Therefore I sometimes "bend" the reality a bit by removing disturbing elements, blend exposures from different moments in time or usin HDR tecniques to expand the dynamic range. I could elaborate a lot about my thoughts, but I don't think this is the place.

One last thing. I have this strange belief that beauty is all around us, all you have to do is look for it, then you'll find it, and you don't have to go to all those spectacular places that have been photographed "to death". Therefore I have started this personal project to see if I can manage to take great images in my local area, which actually isn't that great. No fjords, no mountains or great waterfalls. Just farmland, forest and some not so gorgeous lakes. Two of my portfolio images here at Fstoppers are from that project including the one below.