My name is Arnold Dubin and I live in the east central part of Florida in a town called Indialantic.  I primarily enjoy photographing birds.  Within a couple miles from where I live there are many magnificent areas for capturing images of birds.  I also like taking candid pictures of people in their natural environment and documenting my family’s travel adventures.  This is only a hobby for me and I enjoy sharing my images with my family and friends.

I started to get interested in photography when I was a teenager starting with Kodak Brownie  and had my own B&W darkroom in the basement of our house.  I progressed to a Twin Lens Reflex Yashica-Mat and still used only B&W film.  In my late teens and early 20’s I started capturing slide images first with an Argus C3 and then a Nikon F film camera.  When I started a family with my wife and work was very time consuming, I put my photography on the back burner.  In May of 2004 I started getting interested in photography again.  The first Digital Single Lens Reflex I purchased was a Nikon D70.  Since then I upgraded to a Nikon D200 with 5 lenses ranging from 15mm to over 1000mm in focal length.

Five years ago I started using Adobe Photoshop for my web development business. For over 4 years I have belonged to NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals).  I thought I could fix any of my poor photographs using Photoshop and I realized I was spending on the average 1 to 2 hours to take a poor picture and trying to make it a better one.  All I did was get a mediocre picture.  I then realized it was time to learn more about various techniques of taking a great picture.  I have been to several photography courses, read many books and articles, joined the Camera Club of Brevard, and joined several photograph critiquing web forums.  I can definitely see the improvements in my photographs..  Currently I’m using Adobe Lightroom 2 for file cataloging and enhancing my photographs.  These days I’m spending very little time using Adobe Photoshop to enhance my photos.

As I said photography is my hobby and not a livelihood.  I do enter my photographs in our Camera Club and various contests around Florida.  During the last several years I have won many contests.  Several of my photographs have also been published in local newspaper, websites, and various other publications.

If you have a chance, please take a look at my photograph galleries.  If you have any comments and/or critiques I would greatly appreciate them.  You can leave them on this website or you can phone me - (321) 723-7787 or send me an Email: arnold@dubinphotos.com.

Photography is great hobby!  You can be very creative, there are always lots of new techniques to learn, and most important is having fun with it.