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Debi Haseley

10 Years Ago

New Member Intro!

Hi, my name is Debi and I am an avid amateur hoping to step up and become a semi-pro!
I started taking a lot of pictures about 5 years ago using a Canon super zoom point and shoot camera. Two years ago i upgraded to a Canon XSi, which died after abut 18 months with 130,000 shutter clicks! Told you I am an 'avid' photographer!! I upgraded to a 60D, and I am very happy with it. I have worked hard enough that I rarely use 'auto', and I do like to experiment with settings. I use PSE, Picasa and Picmoneky to process my images.
I take a lot of bird, landscape and water pictures - plus a ton of my granddaughter!.
I would appreciate constructive comments about my pictures!
Thanks, look forward to conversing with many of you.

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Andee Design

10 Years Ago

Welcome Debi! :)

 

Debi Haseley

10 Years Ago

Thanks Andee, I quickly looked at your site - you have some great pics!
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Kathleen Scanlan

10 Years Ago

Welcome

 

Val Arie

10 Years Ago

Welcome Debi!

 

Melissa Bittinger

10 Years Ago

Welcome Debi! For constructive comments you might consider joining a couple of groups.

http://fineartamerica.com/groups/raw-critique.html

http://fineartamerica.com/groups/photo-critique-one-on-one-.html

 

J L Meadows

10 Years Ago

Hi

 

Ernest Echols

10 Years Ago

Welcome Aboard :)

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Angelina Tamez

10 Years Ago

Hello Debi! Welcome!

 

Rich Franco

10 Years Ago

Debi,

Welcome! We need to see more! Hard to judge or offer suggestions on 5 images, 4 of which are very related to a very specific type of image. Your image of the hummer, on the other hand is one of the best I've seen! So now, we need to know if that was a lucky shot, or does Debi have the "EYE"!!! Post some more,please!

Rich Franco

p.s. Melissa has a good suggestion! LOL!

 

Melissa Bittinger

10 Years Ago

Ha Ha!!

 

Debi Haseley

10 Years Ago

Thanks everybody, I will be posting more but I didn't want to overdue it my first day!
The hummer picture was interesting. I sit and try to capture them around my feeders a lot. That day I was walking around the corner of my house and saw that bird at the flower ahead of me. I quickly took the shot, hoping my camera settings were good - and luckily they were.

 

Richard Rizzo

10 Years Ago

welcome Debi.

 

Debi Haseley

10 Years Ago

Thanks again for the welcome.
I did add some more pictures with some variety!

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Bob Galka

10 Years Ago

Hi Debi...

This is not a critique of your images... they are good... only at FineArtAmerica there are millions of images of bird, flowers, a seashore...
I am sure in those 130,000+ image cicks there are some unique subjects. Let's see those. Those also happen to be the things that sell.

I will let others tell you about tags and descriptions ;O)

 

MM Anderson

10 Years Ago

Welcome!

 

Debi Haseley

10 Years Ago

Bob, I added two more - but I have to redo the Clearwater Beach pier shot with a higher resolution version.
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Bob Galka

10 Years Ago

OK... there may be millions of visitors that take the "Maid of the Mist" tour, but probably 90% won't have a photo with this perspective...

BUT.. ;O) you can do MUCH better with the tags.... before I forget.. add you name as a tag to all your images. Also along with niagra falls as a tag, include separatly niagra, and falls. each are unique. Don't forget colors.... decorators search for spcefic colors.. so add blue, blue green, green. Now lets add some more obvious ones.... nature, outdoors, vacation, honeymoon, marriage, wedding, turbulent, wild, misty (different than mist), spray, tour, boat, ship, exciting

well I think you get the idea... there are more to add...

Some people also like to tell stories in their descriptions to get google to find the image as well. It might even get a customer to decide to purchase if it happens to be something they can relate to.

bob

 

Debi Haseley

10 Years Ago

Thanks! I will add more tags tomorrow

 

OTIL ROTCOD

10 Years Ago

Welcome to FAA Debi.

 

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