How Long have you been doing photography?

18 months for me, started just before my 40th (I needed a hobby) and the bug has bitten me!

Landscapes again are my fave, but I just don't get the opportunity at the moment. Rather oddly, I love weddings and anything that puts me under pressure as when I do get a good shot it is all the more satisfying.
 
About 30 years, but with a few 'breaks' along the way. Got back in to it just over a year ago, with the purchase of my first DSLR. Had been using a Canon Powershot G2 up to that point, but realised I missed the flexibility of a SLR.

Still have my film cmaeras, and have just ordered a few rolls of film to see what I can still do with them.

Enjoy all sorts of photography and like to learn the different techniques needed for different subjects.
 
I honestly can't remember when I got my first camera or what it was....I think it was a black Kodak with a cream button to wind the film on. Taken snaps ever since....holidays, Christmas etc, but got my first DSLR about 3 years ago, mainly so that I could shoot pics of my my son who plays in a band, but I have developed a liking for semi-wildlife (zoo's, safari parks etc) and also landscapes. Haven't yet got interested in studio work or portraits...though I have tried with natural light. I suppose some of my gig shots are portraits of a kind. Gigs are my favorite medium.

Bought a macro lens to try my hand at that, but as yet not really got into that. Willing to give most things a try and love going out with other togs.
 
Quite a hard to say really. Umm, well... erm. I bought my first ever camera 3 years ago, a year later around September I got a bridge camera (fuji sd500fd) then I got my 40D.

So over 3 years for me. :)
 
38 years as a freelance - maybe 8 - 10 years before that as an amateur.
 
Since late 1991, initially to document my travels with the Army but nowadays mostly glamour, portraits and mountain bikes (as well as family shots and the odd wedding)
 
Got interested in photography at school in 1977! Seems like only yesterday, well if you look at my pictures it shows :lol:

My favourite genre is photojournalism and is where I get my bread and butter from although if it fits in the frame I shoot it :)

Alan
 
I've been interested in photography since childhood, but have only been seriously trying to improve for almost 2 years.
 
I'm a thirty odd year man as well although I only went digital about eight years ago and I got my first DSLR fifteen months ago.
 
I got my first camera when I was 17, back in 1965.

First SLR in 1968, used film ever since, got a 350D in 2006, but still prefer to use my Canon T90.

John:)
 
This makes me sound old but i started in 1982 with a Canon AE-1P, was hooked from that moment.
I would hate to think how much money i have spent over the years and i guess it will take me years rather than months to convert all my negs to digital, which i plan to do after xmas.
 
Got my 1st camera march 2006 " bridge camera" just before i joined this mad house... Never looked back..


md
 
Owen256 said:
About 1 week, still working my way around using my first DSLR but loving every second of it so far. Even if there is copious amounts of swearing when i get the exposure wrong!
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Get the exposure wrong still happens for me now and again, more so when doing landscape, so i just take more photo's at different exposure levels.
 
jollyjack said:
This was what started me off, I am in the Armed Forces and was on leave. The wife was not used to having me around and i was getting under her feet. So she told me to get a hobby, so photography was it.
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Not the cheapest of hobbies, but an extremely enjoyable one nonetheless. Hope you're enjoying it. ;)
 
Bought myself a SLR and started shooting whilst back at school - mainly to record hill-walking/climbing expeditions. Looking back at family photo's im not in most of 'em - partly as I was a ugly child :lol: , and partly because I always used to pester to take the photo's. Carried on with film up until maybe 2002, when I bought an Ixus V3, which pretty much did all I needed from a camera. Then, last christmas, decided I'd really like to get back into shooting with a SLR again, and bought the 450D, and embarked on a Photo-365 which is getting towards the end now... I've probably pressed the shutter more this year than all the 40+ years before put together, improved from a technical viewpoint immensely (not saying i'm good now, but boy - was i crepe before!) and Lerned that I just plain ENJOY taking photographs (even went back to shooting 35mm BnW film, purely for the fun of it, in addition to the Dijical!)
 
raider2727 said:
i guess it will take me years rather than months to convert all my negs to digital, which i plan to do after xmas.
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Why?

Just scan them as and when you need them, don't waste your life away scanning everything.

The negatives will outlive the files anyway.


Steve.
 
Paid for my first camera when Canon in introduced the AE1, no idea what year that was but been doing photography since then.

Still have the AE1 and it works perfect. Have collected a few bits of hardware since then.:eek:
 
I've been taking it more seriously over the last year, bought a D60 then upgraded to my D90. I don't have a fave subject at the minute.
 
Started with my Dad's old 35mm camera in 1981 (dating back to the '60s), progressed to my first SLR in 1982, went into semi-retirement in 1994 and got a 450D last year. I mainly do railway photography, but enjoy unusual buildings when travelling around, and also cityscape shots.

I find digital so much better, as I can just take 5 or 6 shots and see the results instantly, rather than having to wait to finish a film and then get it developed.
 
Got my first DSLR in June, hammered it and books for about 2 moths then work has taken over quite a bit and I dropped off. Back on the wagon now and have booked an intensive driving course for the new year so that I find more things to photography.

I can tell you now that landscapes are what I enjoy :P
 
Longer than I care to remember, fortunately I never had to coat my own glass plates.
 
I was 10 when I was shown how to make contact prints which started me off- and that's 56 years ago. How scary is that? Seen some changes I'd never have thought possible, and in many ways photography is more exciting than it's ever been - in other ways it's lost something too, but I reckon I'm on now till the last stop. :shrug:
 
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