How did you start to be a photographer

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I'm a biginer in the whole photography world And I wanted to see if I could pick up a few pointers or see how you guys started out so I know what to do.
 
Do you mean as a hobbie or in a professional sense?

As a hobbie it was after I used a friends SLR, just got the bug. Basically what Chris has said!
 
I got bored waiting for new job to start after graduation, booked last minute holiday to Peru, realised I'd really quite like to take half decent photos of it, bought an SLR. Gave up painting when I realised how much quicker photography was! :)

Two and a half years later finally made it my 2010 New Year's resolution to get to know how to use it properly, joined blipfoto (photo a day site), spent 1-2hours a day practising and got hooked! Consumed countless webpages of information. Ended the year with the beginnings of a portrait photography business and now have two - soon to be three barring major disaster - weddings booked. Be careful what you get yourself into :lol:
 
I pestered my Mam and Dad to take the family photo's on holiday when I was about 10 years old because I hated seeing images of myself. Even at that age, I'd sussed that if you're behind the camera, you don't show up in the photos very often. By 12 they'd bought me a camera, by 13 I was a member of the schools photography club and was saving for my first SLR camera, developing and printing my own shots. 35 years later, I'm still hoping to take my first decent photo :lol:
 
2004 at university I noticed there was a society for photography so I asked my dad to lend me his old slr knowing he'd recently bought himself a new camera. 3 years later, no degree but the flavour for taking pics got myself a dslr.

this years resolution is to make some of the money back that I've spent over the years. (hopefully)
 
Sister was doing some B&W stuff for school so was given a Pentax fit SLR and a bunch of lenses. This perked my interest so I bought a Pentax T30 with a Vivitar zoom so we could share gear. While I really liked my results the fact it was film meant I was being very conservative with my shots as it cost money to see the results. After about 10-15 rolls I gave up and bought a bridge, but found the manual controls awful so end up back at snapping.

About 6 months ago when looking at wedding togs my interest was rekindled so I got a used Nikon and I am off again!
 
I began by having a stroke, and part of my rehab included a digital photography editing course, run by the stroke group I belong to. And although I still class myself as a novice, I love the learning curve of different types of photography. It's given me a chance to do something I would never have done before, I constantly want to be out with the camera.

If I can't get out for what ever reason I am reading books given to me over and over, watching tutorials on YouTube and reading magazines I was given. Just handed the magazines I was given by someone off here to a fellow stroke survivor who I helped get into photography.
 
My dad has been semi pro all my life so I grew up with cameras all around me, however I actually didn't find it very interesting until last Christmas when my girlfriend bought me a voucher for a canvas print from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year series. Looking through the images I thought I'd like to be able to take photos such as that, so got myself a DSLR in summer and here I am.
 
I would start out photographing things that interest you, any other hobbies perhaps. Select a theme, local landmarks, series on local churches, experiment with different shutter speeds, apertures and ISO on the same shot to see what effect they have. Read your manual several times so that you fully understand your camera and it's second nature to operate.
 
My mrs kept saying I took good photos, and I'd always enjoyed photography, though never really got into it.

Then, last spring I got my work bonus and decided to get a Digital SLR and caught the bug. Now I just want to learn all I can and eventually become a professional photographer.
 
Very similar to Stering Archer...despite knowing it interested me never did anything about it, until about a year ago when something made me buy a DSLR. Now I've found something I want to do more and more. What a buzz.
 
my father was a keen photographer, he gave me a small fixed lens hand wind-on at about 5 years old.....had my first SLR at the age of around 8 (ZENITH-E) ...the rest is history

my first "proper" camera was just like this one (I wish I still had it)
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I bought a camera for 10p at a jumble sale when I was about 7. I have no idea what sort, only that it took 126 film.

Being a small child I was often content to use the thing without any film.

I few years later I was bought a 35mm compact, but really the cost of film and developing meant it hadn't yet become a hobby for life.

I started taking the odd picture when digital cameras got to the point that my relatives starting have cast offs.

I had a Kodak DC210, which had about a half second delay on the shutter release, followed by an awful Kyocera that would never expose correctly. I also toook lots of pics on a Sony Ericsson K250i.

About a year ago I decided I wanted a camera I'd chose so I got a Fuji S1500, although at some levels it's a cheap compact through and through in other ways it's a proper camera.

I soon gave in and bought a dSLR, a Nikon D60.
 
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