Nice choice, and what a steal!

If you want some help with your photos, may I recommend photoSIG. I crawled the web for months trying to find a good critique site, and this seems to be it. Advertising is a bit heavy, but a paid membership removes it. Unlike other sites I have used, critics cannot leave anonymous numerical grades which end up being wildly varied and simply useless for correcting your technique. Critics must instead rank your photo from +3 to -3 (though the -3 is reserved for photos which are truly offensive and repugnant, I think they say) and must leave a critic of no fewer than 15 words. The amount of photos you can upload is limited by how many critics you make, so you must make critics in order to receive them - it's a good system which keeps the community rolling. Furthermore, the critiques you leave can be graded by other users on whether or not they found them to be helpful.

For a sample, here is a photo I submitted which has been critiqued by two other users. For what it's worth, I had no prior interaction with either of those critics, except that one also critiqued another photo of mine. You can see that their comments are pretty fair and honest, and you can reply and get them to flesh out more ideas for you. The critiques you receive, the critiques you leave, and how valuable other users find them add up to generate your overall photoSIG 'score' which appears in paranthesis next to your username.

My only complaint is that they put a harsh limit on the resolutions of photos you can upload - 800x600 is usually the best you can manage.

EDIT: Another nice thing is that while they have nudes, unlike other sites I have tried you have the option of whether or not you want to see them.

Thanks guys for all the info to photography websites. Much appreciated. :yep:

Here's a list of lenses:
http://digital-photography-school.co...r-dslr-lenses/

The Canon list is full of sh*t. Not the lenses -- the lenses are good -- but the actual list is a crock. Maybe for professionals it might be a valid list. The Nikon has a couple lenses rated for amateur use. The Sigma and Tamron list is ok.

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