Still here. Just no one asking :).

... There is no specific number that will do the job. It always depends on the distance between your subject and the background. Sometimes you want to shoot with f 8 or something like that to get a beautiful landscape shot with everything in focus and sometimes not. There is no one right way to take images, just have fun :)!

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... Yay so happy I could help, from now on it's just practice and figuring out how your camera works. And those blurry backgrounds in images have to do with aperture indeed. If you are setting your f-stop to a very small number (like 2.8 or 1.8) only a small part of your image will be in focus. If you are using a kit lens you may not be able to set your aperture to such a low number, then you have to make sure to place your subject as far away from the background as possible.

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That is awesome! First of all, take the manual and read the basics, every camera works a bit different. I'm sure you then will be able to shoot in full automatic mode. Your next goal should be to understand aperture, shutter speed and iso. These three things give you full control over your images. If your manual doesn't provide a good explanation for that, just google. I know a dslr can be pretty scary at first but just practice and have fun, you can do this! :) oh and hi too!

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Treat!! :)

This is actually quite difficult to explain, but basically the F stop on your lens means how much light it lets through at the most. So a lens with F Stop 1.4 means you can get pretty much light in and also shoot in low light situations without using an external flash. Any number below 2.8 also creates beautiful bokeh. Normal kit lenses mostly only have F 3.5 or something like that. If you set your F stop on your camera all up to 22 your lens will let in very few light and allows you to make long exposures. Hope that was somehow helpful, please ask again if not and I will try once more! :)

I never can decide, I always love the season most that's coming up next. So currently my favorite season is the winter and holiday season. :)

I use a Canon 5dmkii, love it! :)

I don't have any experience with selling through getty images. I got some invites some time ago but didn't like their agreements. I prefer keeping all rights for my images myself. Also if you sell through getty you don't have any idea where your images will be used and people don't have to say who was the photographer of the image if they buy through getty. But you have to decide for yourself if getty is the right way for you to sell your images. You could always try it out with some of your images first and look how you feel.

Actually we don't celebrate Halloween here in Austria so I will not dress up :).

Here are some awesome people I follow on flickr:

Rosie Hardy http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosie_hardy/
Brooke Shaden http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/
Karrah Kobus http://www.flickr.com/photos/karrah_kobus/
Boy Wonder http://www.flickr.com/photos/joel_r/
Bella Kotak http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellakotak/
Miss Aniela http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndybisz/
Yulia http://www.flickr.com/photos/yuliatangled/
Alex Stoddard http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-stoddard/

If you don't have the money work on your skills first! :)

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More and more I feel that beautiful minds inspire me more than anything else.

First of all, I don't know the Nikon L19 so I can't tell wheter it is a "good" camera or not, but if you say it does a good job then probably that camera is a good camera for you at the moment. You don't need to invest a lot of money you don't have just to own a dslr! What many people forget is that it's not about technology but about your creativity. The only thing I would say is important about a camera is that you have some kind of possibility to change your settings and get full control over your image. But that is possible with a lot of compact cameras too.
Here they list some pros and cons of both types : http://www.pixiq.com/article/dslr-or-compact-camera-pros-and-cons

In the end it's all about what you want to capture, but don't forget: You take the images, not your camera! And if you have any further questions, please let me know! :)

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