Hi All From Argentina

Dear all

My name is Federico and I'm an Italian living in Argentina.

I was used to shoot quite a lot when I was at University, like 20 years ago.

I had an old metal and heavy Reflex camera and I learned to develop my own pics in a workshop at the University of Art and Design of Helsinki.

Now I'm almost 42 and I’m getting in touch with art again.

So I decided, following the suggestion of a Pro Photographer friend of mine, to buy a Nikon D3300 Camera.

I’ll put my hands on it in a couple of weeks and I’m really excited. I bought the two lenses in the kit (18-55 and 55-200) plus a tripod and a “studio set”, to have a white / black / green background, lights and the basic stuff to start to have fun.

I’d like to take family pictures and portrait starting from my big family in a "studio like" situation and in theatres (my sister is a pro tango dancer).

I guess that I’ll be around here quite often!

Ciao

Federico

Welcome to the website.

Welcome! Looking forward to seeing your pictures.

Welcome. Enough equipment for the start. Maybe you should consider buying a good portraiture lens (85 f1.8 D, manual focus only with your camera! Nikon 85mm f/1.8 AF-D Review, or, if it wouldn't brake the bank, the 85 mm f1.4/1.8 G, auto focus even with 3300 https://goo.gl/2cl51l ).

Howdy Federico and welcome to Nikonites!

Hi Frederico and welcome..................

Bienvenida, ben venuto

hello and welcome

Welcome to the forum from Western New York.

Welcome to the forum

Thank you vary much! Grazie mille! Muchas gracias!

Thank you vary much for your suggestion Dragan. They are all quite out of my reach at the moment. I red good reviews about the Nikon NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX. Could it be decent alternative for portrait? I have seen that the price for an used Nikon 85mm f/1.8 AF-D it's around 250 USD. I could pay that but I don't know if it's ok to buy used lenses.

DraganDL said:

Welcome. Enough equipment for the start. Maybe you should consider buying a good portraiture lens (85 f1.8 D, manual focus only with your camera! Nikon 85mm f/1.8 AF-D Review, or, if it wouldn't brake the bank, the 85 mm f1.4/1.8 G, auto focus even with 3300 https://goo.gl/2cl51l ).

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-35 mm, not really - though it's pretty much usable as an "universal" ("standard") lens on a DX camera, but not as a dedicated portraiture lens. Could be quite handy in the theater (as it's been mentioned in your post) thanks to it's large aperture ("fast" lens).
-This 85 mm would be the right choice. It's price is reasonable, and if it comes from a trusted source (money back guarantee etc.) you are strongly advised to purchase it.

Welcome along..

Thanks Jay_dean
Thanks for your reply DraganDL!

Welcome! Looking forward to sharing with your new adventure.

Thank you Cwgrizz! Yes "adventure" is the right world at this point of my life! Looking forward to post and share something.