If you are looking for others that share your interests and you are new to this effort, here some some things I have found out since my last posting. No one has left a comment on my original post. Just because you post doesn't mean anyone reads it. (Blogger has an automatic save draft feature that saved this one. While searching my links for this post, I forgot to switch to another tab and when I hit back this blog was gone, or so I thought. I found the saved draft and am continuing.)
Forums at Craigslist are a big help, advice from Craigslist led me to http://www.meetup.com/. Facebook led me to http://www.linkedin.com/. My wife told me about http://anymeeting.com/ And yet I still havn't had anyone e-mail me or contact me to get together and take photos.
Meetup is for everyone, however, you may not know exactly what the group you are joining is into until you actually join them because they don't share with people that are not members.
LinkedIn is for professionals from any and all professions.
But persevere I must, so I will keep looking.
My opinion so far on software. RawTherapee is pretty cool for a free version of Lightroom.
Aperture 3 on my MacBook Pro. Like it.
Lightroom 3 on my PC. Really liking the noise reduction feature.
There are many good videos on the internet out there. Start with Google searches (or whatever search engine you use). Adobe TV is good http://tv.adobe.com/product/lightroom/. This site is very helpful, thelightroomlab, http://thelightroomlab.com/2010/06/getting-started-right-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-3-setup-and-catalog-creation/. Good video for noise reduction here from cameradojo.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMdjZ7zNM5M and sharpening here from Media Cats on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9SBnjKJ2hI&NR=1.
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