How did you get into photography?!

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I had a work colleague and he had an absolutely amazing shot on his desktop of a water droplet and I once just said "lovely background" and he goes, his friend took the photo and I thought "b******t!!" but then started talking to him and he explained macro to me and showed me his nikon and out of the blue, another colleague whipped out a Canon and I'd always had a interest in it but I guess, my motivation is to be able to take cracking shots like the one I saw on his desktop...

ok.....your turn...
 
My friend got a 350d (brand new at the time) and I was immediately jealous and wanted what he had :p

Year later, I got a 350d, and got into photography in a big way.
8 months later, I now have a 40d and choose to pursue Photography as a career.
 
i go into it because i like old buildings and i started using a small camera for my paranormal investigations
 
I was lucky enough to go on a trip to the Rain Forest in Ecuador and to the Galapagos Islands. I bought an old film EOS to take with me before I went. Practised for a few months and have had the bug since!
 
Xplosion said:
Have you still got it? :) put it up if you do...
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After that, I had to get a camera. We like to challenge each other, and I knew my phone cam would not compete with that shot!!!

He is a member here, "Stressless" :)

Gary.
 
I am always out and about either walking in at events and it just seemed a perfect way to enjoy myself.

Had always had point and shoot in pocket and decided to get DSLR for the Airshows mainly then got hook on all other photography.

Shutterman
 
Went to Krakow a couple of years ago (since been back there again, wonderful place) and had a wander south of the city into Kazimierz. A very sad place full of old, crumbling buildings. Took a lot of pics with a very naff point and click camera and, a few months ago, was looking at the very few of them we kept and wishing they were better photographs from a technical point of view. Decided to dive into the world of digital photography and try and learn to do it properly. On a timescale as well as we are going back to Krakow again this Xmas, so need to have a slight clue what I'm doing by then.

Hunted internet. Found this place. Read all the advice. Bought a 400D. Happy I did. Addicted. :)
 
well, it was many years ago working in retail, the boss says top salesman gets to choose something to the value of i think it was £300. and i was thinking what would i like but could not afford a fancy digital camera got the top sales got a AGFA ePhoto1280 great fun and just got into it.

Michael
 
stressless said:
well, it was many years ago working in retail, the boss says top salesman gets to choose something to the value of i think it was £300. and i was thinking what would i like but could not afford a fancy digital camera got the top sales got a AGFA ePhoto1280 great fun and just got into it.

Michael
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And the b*****d took a pic of Dragon Fly, and I am now skint.
 
well, I think I got some of the partial bug when I went to the WRC Ireland with my Ixus Point and shoot, and looking back, I would get in some stupid places because I had to get that close.....and then right next to me, a pro WRC tog came along and I think I started hassling her about shutter speed etc so I could get some good pics (it was absolutely ****ing it down) - she said a few words in french and buggered off and all my pics were really noisy as all I figured out at that point was, if you put the ISO up, you can atleast see something, I'll try digging a few pics out today...oh and I caught Solbergs scooby mid air
 
EdinburghGary said:
And the b*****d took a pic of Dragon Fly, and I am now skint.
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may I add not with the AGFA it was with my current D70 and the Tamron 70-300 macro (which i want to replace for a better macro lens suggestions anyone)

Michael
 
White Water Canoeing:

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Photography is a defacto second hobby for most serious paddlers. What with it being such a visual sport, and taking us to places practically unreachable otherwise.
 
My parents got me hooked. My very first SLR (olympus OM1) was a christmas present from my from my parents. I went out on boxing day, took a lovely landscape near my home, and was hooked ever since. I am so pleased that I learnt the basics on a fully manual camera. Several trade in's later and I still miss my first camera!!
 
smithphoto said:
My parents got me hooked. My very first SLR (olympus OM1) was a christmas present from my from my parents. I went out on boxing day, took a lovely landscape near my home, and was hooked ever since. I am so pleased that I learnt the basics on a fully manual camera. Several trade in's later and I still miss my first camera!!
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Cant say i miss my first camera AGFA ePhoto1280 the pics from it i look at and think wow what a pile of s***

Michael
 
My first ever camera was a 350d!

I then got an EOS 1000fn SLR and a pinhole camera.
I've done photograms, and all that sort of thing.

And sometime soon I'm going to go medium format.
One day I'd like to try large format.

It seems my photographic timeline is all over the place!
 
Bought a coolpix p50 to take traveling with me and discovered I got a real kick out of taking pictures. Got a D40 to see if I'd enjoy a DSLR and loved it.
 
I started with an Olly (cant remember model) film camera, took it out to the desert with me in 1990 took some GREAT pics.

That camera died so ended up with a cheap P&S as did not seem to take many pics for awhile, then went to NEW York for Christmas with the Wife and trying to get night shots of the Statue of Liberty, or trying to zoom from the top of the Empire State was just a waste of time, so went and bought a 350d...traded for 400d......now got the 40d as well all within a year. Hopefully I can keep the money in my pocket for awhile now!
 
I was always interested as a kid but we could never afford fancy stuff like cameras but i ended up getting a Polaroid black and white instant camera off a pile of embassy cigarette coupons(remember those :D) my Dad had saved, anyway i went to Thailand in 2004 i had a fuji film compact and managed to get a few good shots,after seeing such lovely sights in Thailand i always thought it would be great to have a digital camera even though i knew naff all about them, i just thought the idea of being able to see your photos after you had taken them was great(back to the Polaroid)my first digital camera was a Casio compact quickly followed by a Panasonic FZ20(great camera)quickly followed by a Nikon D50, D80, and now a D300, and just for the record I'm still crap at it :lol: but just keep trying :thumbs:
 
dad taught me first trip out i cam remember was to a german pheaasant shoot, in germany of course. taught me depth of field compostion etc etc. he was the comapny tog in germany and did the xmas shots of family to send home.

can always remember people around a the house to have protraits done and then into the dark room. so again taught me how to do this as well.

then my family comes along, for my twenty first form wife can have an AE1 or a pram which evry comes along first baby or birthday.

so for me 21st got a shoulder full of sick and a smelly nappy. chuffed to bits.

camera had to wait until me 40th then a trip to Canada up graded to a 30d and the rest is history.

now up grading the glass being paid for by my sales which are goign strong at the moment.
 
I was studying a TEC Diploma in Electronics in 1979, part of the 2nd year studies included a photography element at the Plymouth College of Art & Design. I really enjoyed the full process and the seeming magic of it all. Was taught all aspects of monochrome including lith, large/medium format and how to print well.

Biggest incentive for me though was "I like boy's toys"
 
Got fed up with the lil canon, and decided to go bigger, wifey showed an interest. so went to jessops saw the canon 400d. little google search said the 40d was a lot better, bought it as a joint crimbo present last year and never had a penny to my name since.
 
How did I get into Photography??


Well I go to A LOT of car shows and events as im car mad – I also love history and capturing events for memories. I only had my phone as a camera which worked well but then I borrowed my mums small sony camera but looking at different pictures and sites I knew a DSLR was the way to go! Pitty im still learning with it!
 
EdinburghGary said:
Oooooooops :)

Well, you learn something new every day :D
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I was actually going to say the that myself :D the only reason i knew it was a Damsel was i did exactly the same posted a picture of a dragon fly only for someone to point out to me it was a damsel :lol: this one here.

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Not wanting to go too OT

Damsels are smaller (in the UK at least), fold their wings when perched, eyes seperated.
 
Although photography had never been my "main hobby" and nor have I known anyone who was also into it, but one morning in the mid 80s (I was 18 years old) while riding a bike to work and as I was cutting through a park, I was spellbound by this beautiful misty scene that opened out before me. I spent the rest of the day wishing I had a camera on me, then it lead to wanting to own a "decent" camera.
So, shortly aftwards, I bought myself a Practika film SLR. However, the cost, effort and time involving traditional film developing meant that I never really got into it big time, especially since I was 18 - 20 years old at the time and I was on a YTS course, so my budget was very limited to cover what was essentially speaking an expensive hobby.
But, then in 2002 I got my first digital camera, a floppy based Sony Macevia 1.3 mp (something that can still own it's own today, and I'd still use it if the floppy mechanism isn't knackered!) and the ease of being able to rattle off pictures to my heart's content without the hassle associated with film processing had re-ignited up my passion for photography.
I'm now the proud owner of 3 digital cameras (Fuji A900 I carry with me at all times, a Fuji S5600 for days out and a recently purchased Nikon D40 for the serious stuff) and while I don't claim to be a brilliant photographer, nor do I make myself out to be an expert, the cheapness and ease that comes with digital photography meant that I'm now even more passionate than ever about photography. It is feeling like everything I look at, it's a "photo op", in other words, I'm a right shutterbug (am I allowed to use that term in here!).
Incidentially, I've still got that Pracitika SLR film camera, still in perfect working order!
 
always been interested as far back as i can remember but never really had my own camera that i used.

First expensive one i bought was one of the sony cyberhot ones that cost me 400 :lol: Then got a 400d last summer and now have a 5d
 
I was using a p&s and had the opertunity of visiting a game park in SA during a 2 week business trip in 2005, I was leaving at 1pm on the Sunday and at 3:30pm on the saturday the wife suggested I might like an SLR, I went to Digital Depot tried a few and chose a used D60 with lens. That is all history now I have spent far too much and now on my third body a new 40d on Saturday and 2 bodies for the wife (300d & 30D)
 
my dad worked for AGFA all his working life so I always had access to cameras so we always where snapping away.
got my first SLR Pratrica when I was a collage but could not afford to get to many films then when I had a full time job APS cam out so got a fujifilm one. had that for many years and was always tempted for digital but could not afford for a while.
then was going on holiday to USA so got a canon IXUS 400 had that for a year then it got stolen and lost a few good pictures.
got a IXUS 750 as replacement. then I got asked to do a fiends sisters wedding and mu uncles so decided to get a DSLR and went for a canon 400d and I have had it over a year now and really happy with it.
 
The photo that inspired me (because it was that bad)

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Loved it ever since I was a kid. Father had a pic of me aged about 4 with a little kodak slung round my neck. Since then I learned B&W and printing in our school darkroom. Shot lots of film, very badly before going digital.

Since then my timeline also seems to have had a hiccup. I went from Olympus SLR's to an Olympus bridge then Canon 20D... 5D.....1DsMkII but in amongst that lot crops up a Mamiya 645 medium format and a whole pile of film. So I'm back in the darkroom, full circle.
 
When I was about nine my gran gave me a Readers Digest nature book and it had a double page spread picture of a kestrel. Since then I've wanted to take that picture.

I started with a 110 film then onto SLR, digital point and shoot, bridge and now my 350d.

I still haven't got that picture but one day I will.

ps. We bought my son a very similar book at a car boot sale the other week, now he has my old bridge camera and is out trying to get his shot.
 
i got into when i went travelling around the world but i had a fuji film camera back then. i really enjoyed, and when i got back i lost it so bought a digital compact fuji e500 which i had fun with and started buying dcmag, and other mags. Then i bought a Nikon D50 and loved it to bits going out with my mate and seeing lots of the country side and naature at its best. And since focusing on imaging show i now own a Nikon D300. I do wish i had the skill and camera when i went travelling in new zealand ,australia, fiji,and other placesi went to. Oh well never mind .
 
foodpoison said:
My friend got a 350d (brand new at the time) and I was immediately jealous and wanted what he had :p

Year later, I got a 350d, and got into photography in a big way.
8 months later, I now have a 40d and choose to pursue Photography as a career.
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:nono: I thought you worked in Jessops?



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