how did you get started in photography?

kekaru · Sep 20, 2010

tell us your story.

Me personally, I was always a shutter bug, I always demanded control over the holiday snapshot camera. I was 15 when I got my first Digicam (Olympus something) and took it every where, when I was 17 when i got my first DSLR (Nikon D100) which is still going strong after four years and is still used and my secondary camera.

skieur · Sep 20, 2010

In the genes. My mother got me started as soon as I could hold a camera.

skieur

Scatterbrained · Sep 20, 2010

I knocked up my wife. :lol:

Derrel · Sep 20, 2010

I bought an old plastic rollfilm camera at a school rummage sale for ten cents, back in 1973. That was my first camera. Within two years, I had bought a used Kodak Pony 135-B adjustable 35mm viewfinder camera.

kekaru · Sep 20, 2010

Derrel said:
I bought an old plastic rollfilm camera at a school rummage sale for ten cents, back in 1973. That was my first camera. Within two years, I had bought a used Kodak Pony 135-B adjustable 35mm viewfinder camera.

I love going to car boot sales and finding old film cameras, I went to germany not so long ago and found an old ex-military, it is a gem to use.

Buckster · Sep 20, 2010

It's in here somewhere...

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...ery/216754-what-drove-you-do-photography.html

skieur · Sep 20, 2010

Derrel said:
I bought an old plastic rollfilm camera at a school rummage sale for ten cents, back in 1973. That was my first camera. Within two years, I had bought a used Kodak Pony 135-B adjustable 35mm viewfinder camera.

Gee, I progressed to video and television shooting by then after more than a decade of shooting stills.

skieur

IgsEMT · Sep 20, 2010

I was 15 and my cuz was working for a videographer. He asked me if I want to replace him when he stops working. So for the next 4 yrs I was on the video end of the industry. Then I jumped into photography and learned the taste of NPS. Few years later I was walking around with square Bronica and few after that jumped on the digital wagon...

oldmacman · Sep 20, 2010

I needed to be able to document my art work in university for portfolios and archiving. The university school paper was looking for a photo editor that paid $30 a week (sweet). I had a camera, so I was "qualified" for the job. I learned a lot more than I wanted early on. I started shooting sports, bands that would play at the school and drama productions. I got decent enough to shoot under difficult lighting situations and it has always stuck as a serious hobby for me. After I failed as an artist (just kidding, I never really tried because I like to eat) photography became a handy tool in teaching at a high school: yearbook, media art, and the school web site.

dalewood · Sep 20, 2010

i started out as a guide for guided hunts and brought a cousins d40x with me. i took some photos for some clients and the payed me a nice bit of money after cuz they were very pleased with what they saw. so inturn i put the money they gave me to my new found passion

usayit · Sep 20, 2010

I became the dedicated family photographer during our vacations.... 9-10ish of age (I think dad got tired of carrying the camera). At some point in time, I got bored of taking pics of ourselves at various locations and started to shoot everything else.

Mom wasn't happy with all the $$ spent processing rolls but did mention some could be made into postcards.... that really motivated me as a kid. A little while later, Dad's Minolta 7000 basically remained in my possession as I always just kept shooting... didn't return the camera to him until college.

Phranquey · Sep 20, 2010

Started out borrowing my uncle's AE-1P when I was about 13. ( which I still own, and will never give up. He was killed at a very young age in an industrial accident, and my aunt gave me his camera)

My parents bought me a Minolta X-700 for my 16th B-day. I was in high school yearbook & paper, worked with the local pro photographer who did all the portrait work, and my counselor was also a pro who taught a two student per semester photojournalism class, and I helped him out at a bunch of weddings. He also taught me how to develop & print.

Went to college and bought an FM2, worked on the paper, was a stringer for the Akron Beacon-Journal, and I kept in contact with my HS counselor, still helping him as a wedding second occasionally (his payment to me was letting me borrow his lenses :boogie:

).

From there, it's just been a seriously expensive hobby.

Sharfy · Sep 20, 2010

Wayback highschool (1996-2000) I am in press club and gone to national competition for Photojournalism (very different from present time in school competitions). I was just lending a camera during '96 but a year after I brought a honor to my school my 2 cousins gave me "Yashica Camera" thats started me with more interest and from 1996-2000 I do bring some honor to my school and family.

The interest died after high graduation to focused on a Nursing degree (family influence)... I just hope I can still be a competitive person and do good works in taking picture.

You will always go back to what you love most and I regret for not being consistent on this field.

I am still a newbie and hoping to learn more from TPF :smileys:

Chris Fulton · Sep 20, 2010

It was less dramatic for me than it was for everyone else. I've always had a camera, first a little 110 film camera, then a 35 mm p&s. Never used them a whole lot, mostly around holiday time. Then a bit over three years ago, I decided to get my first p&s digicam, followed shortly thereafter by ANOTHER. Both were 4mp cameras. I decided to try and do more than just take holiday shots. A year later, picked up a better p&s (nikon P5100) and last year a Canon Xsi. And I've been on a journey to try and take better shots since.