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09/12/2004 05:56:56 AM · #1 |
| Well I just started getting serious, a couple months ago. But I have been interested for a few years. I started out with a nikon n50 then a nikon n65, then a fuji fine pix a303, now I have a nikon d70. How long have you been taking pictures? |
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09/12/2004 06:01:38 AM · #2 |
| 1981 , bought my first Canon ae1 programer , still tring to figure this out |
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09/12/2004 06:13:21 AM · #3 |
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09/12/2004 06:14:19 AM · #4 |
Since I joined DPC, July 18th 2002
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09/12/2004 06:52:23 AM · #5 |
| I bought my first slr - a Mamiya/Sekor DTL in 1969. |
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09/12/2004 07:19:42 AM · #6 |
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09/12/2004 07:22:22 AM · #7 |
I don't take pictures, I take photographs; I'm a artist. 
April 2002.
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09/12/2004 07:23:36 AM · #8 |
| I just started getting serious when I joined DPC earlier this year, now I'm completely hooked and cant wait to get some better equipment and go beyond the point and shoot that my current camera offers. Im pretty happy with what I've done so far though. |
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09/12/2004 07:23:43 AM · #9 |
Since I was 11... not that it shows in my challenge entries! LOL
Some of my other stuff, particularly my travel stuff, is a bit better. See my prints, link below.
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09/12/2004 07:29:27 AM · #10 |
Ummm.. 1956 with a Kodak Brownie...Went through various "Instamtics" until the late '60's. Bought a used "Exacta" in 1970 (GREAT camera, but very loud) and used it extensively (almost got in trouble with it in Europe when I got a little close to the East German border - but that's another story....), camera was stolen a few years later so was cameraless for awhile. My husband taught a class and used the money to buy an AE1 Programmable, which I had forever until it drowned in a canoe accident (the first time we rolled in 30 years), it was replaced with a Canon Rebel 2000 (which was like trying to learn language), then a Toshiba digital (alien - as in otherworldly - language and culture), and now the 300D. I've collected old cameras along the way and tried to find film to produce images with them as well. I was very comfortable with film, but I feel digital is the future, and I LOVE the instant gratification of seeing the image and being able to manipulate it with the computer. (Remember, when I started taking pictures, we didn't have computers) I am (obviously) still learning, and trying to get better and take better pictures. I suspect there will be a time in the future when someone will be prying a camera out of my cold, dead hands.
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09/12/2004 07:50:11 AM · #11 |
Since 1954, age 12. Worked as school photog in high school, then later as ship's photog on two Navy vessals (submarines).
Most good work done with a graflex 4X5 using cut film. The nature of the photography was documentary with little scope for artistic expression.
Long experience is not necessarily an indicator of capability! Is it 50 years experience or one years experience 50 times! In my case, I suspect the latter! :>( |
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09/12/2004 07:57:23 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by ElGordo:
Since 1954, age 12. Worked as school photog in high school, then later as ship's photog on two Navy vessals (submarines).
Most good work done with a graflex 4X5 using cut film. The nature of the photography was documentary with little scope for artistic expression.
Long experience is not necessarily an indicator of capability! Is it 50 years experience or one years experience 50 times! In my case, I suspect the latter! :>( |
Just remember the learning curves (plural) we have experienced. I'm back to square one for sure. (edited for spelling)
Message edited by author 2004-09-12 11:58:02.
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09/12/2004 08:21:43 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by ElGordo:
Since 1954, age 12. Worked as school photog in high school, then later as ship's photog on two Navy vessals (submarines).
Most good work done with a graflex 4X5 using cut film. The nature of the photography was documentary with little scope for artistic expression.
Long experience is not necessarily an indicator of capability! Is it 50 years experience or one years experience 50 times! In my case, I suspect the latter! :>( |
 my parents weren't even born then, not til 10 years later!!! Sorry, don't mean to make you feel old or anything.
The first time I picked up a camera I was 13. I took the casual snapshot here and there until I bought my first digital camera, a Kodak DX4900. Then I was hooked. Two months after I got that camera I joined DPC and here I am, two years later, sucking as bad as I did when I first joined  .
june
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09/12/2004 08:22:24 AM · #14 |
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09/12/2004 08:24:01 AM · #15 |
23 years. Man that's a scary number. :) Scarier is I found some of my first images when I was home on vacation. It was interesting to see that I'm still interested in the same subjects. :)
Clara
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09/12/2004 08:33:46 AM · #16 |
I have always taken snapshots, but since recieving my digital camera for Christmas 2003 I have gotten more serious about photography.
Mandy
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09/12/2004 08:37:24 AM · #17 |
5 years with various point and shoot digital and film cameras.
6 months with a DSLR.
I'm just starting to get into the realm of "artistic" shots; I really started realizing my enjoyment for photography after purchasing my 10d. |
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09/12/2004 09:31:08 AM · #18 |
| Other than snapshots, I've been really trying to learn some decent photography skills since March of this year. |
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09/12/2004 09:41:56 AM · #19 |
Probably longer than many of the folks here have been alive... LOL. I started very young when my dad bought me one of those box cameras you send back to get processed. When I was 14 he gave me his Kodak Retina and I've been constantly taking pictures ever since. I got into digital a couple of years ago and that really increased my involvement. So... it's been close to 50 years for me!!! Ann
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09/12/2004 10:15:51 AM · #20 |
Without going way back into ancient history, I still have photos on my wall from the mid-50s.
Not necessarily good ones, but, still, mine. (that was a great little car.) |
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09/12/2004 10:34:48 AM · #21 |
| I've taken all my familes vacation pictures for as long as I can remember... but more seriously, since summer. |
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09/12/2004 10:50:20 AM · #22 |
| March 2004, my girlfriend left me for a week long trip to Domincan Republic, So i bought my Sony and got absolutely HOOKED : ) |
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09/12/2004 11:25:32 AM · #23 |
| Got into photography and the darkroom when I was 11 or 12, at summer camp. 1966 or 1967. But after high school, I didn't do too much with it until digital came around...now I am fanatical, equal or moreso than my chosen career of writing computer software. |
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09/12/2004 11:28:57 AM · #24 |
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09/12/2004 11:32:24 AM · #25 |
| I have been taking snapshots for the last 4yrs now. I owned a olympus point and shoot and then bought Nikon N65. I can say I starting taking photographs only after I bought my 10D this June. Fairly new and a long way to go |
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my parents weren't even born then, not til 10 years later!!! Sorry, don't mean to make you feel old or anything.
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