What Was Your Photographic "Aha" moment?!
Dec 22, 2016 10:58:44 #
My "aha" moment came after shooting with a Pentax 6 X 7 and finding a local custom lab to process my 120/240 film and create contact sheets. After selecting a few shots from the contact sheets I had this technician to print the shots that I selected. My 'aha' moment happened the first time I saw these
8 X 10 prints. I was blown away from the color rendition, clarity and overall impact of the prints so accurately recorded my vision for these shots. I turned out that this technician was a very skilled print maker and are relationship lasted a few years before he retired. I had be shooting with a Nikon FE at the same time as my Pentax 6 X 7 but the 35mm of the Nikon never equaled the the colors, clarity, and slow purpose full pace at which I worked with the Pentax.
8 X 10 prints. I was blown away from the color rendition, clarity and overall impact of the prints so accurately recorded my vision for these shots. I turned out that this technician was a very skilled print maker and are relationship lasted a few years before he retired. I had be shooting with a Nikon FE at the same time as my Pentax 6 X 7 but the 35mm of the Nikon never equaled the the colors, clarity, and slow purpose full pace at which I worked with the Pentax.
Dec 22, 2016 11:07:33 #
I had been to the Grand Canyon for the first time and was anticipating wonderful photos (film days.) When they were developed I experienced terrible disappointment. No depth, nothing like the scenes I had viewed. A long time later (after switching to digital) I learned about the importance of foregrounds. Aha! That (among other things) was what was wrong with those Grand Canyon photos. I've never looked back.
Dec 22, 2016 11:20:36 #
Dec 22, 2016 12:10:50 #
Leitz
Loc: Solms
SharpShooter wrote:
Have you had a photographic aha moment? br Maybe ... (show quote)
Someone once said that Nikons were crap, so I went out and photographed with a Df. What an "Aha" moment it was when I realized what a crock that statement was!!
Dec 22, 2016 12:26:18 #
Dec 22, 2016 12:27:40 #
I'll mention a different kind of a-ha moment - when the concept of the exposure triangle clicked in my head. Everything I learned photographically after that is sort of grounded in that knowledge.
Dec 22, 2016 12:58:51 #
My first awe moment was getting a David Cassidy's photo, back in 1970, I was just 13 years old. LOL.
Dec 22, 2016 13:02:28 #
Leitz wrote:
Someone once said that Nikons were crap, so I went out and photographed with a Df. What an "Aha" moment it was when I realized what a crock that statement was!!
Same with me, after so many bad reviews on the Df, I read and watched them all, I still pulled the plug and got one.
Dec 22, 2016 13:08:40 #
SteveLew wrote:
My "aha" moment came after shooting with... (show quote)
I had a Mamiya c330. The overall impact as you mentioned over 35mm size was jaw dropping.
Dec 22, 2016 13:11:04 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Have you had a photographic aha moment? br Maybe ... (show quote)
Hi, SS,
A great thread for the holiday season for us all to recall those most significant moments in our journeys in photography.
My first was in my dad's darkroom, watching a print appear in the "soup" tray (1947)
Next was getting my first SLR ( a pre-war Cine-Exakta) in 1958,
and the last was was the epiphany of first understanding the concept of EBTR to gain the maximum of image data quality...in 2004 !
Dave
Dec 22, 2016 13:31:44 #
My uncle Arthur was the family photographer, I loved going to my cousins house and watching the old 8mm movies he made.
Seeing him at the camera made me want to know what he was seeing in there and why was it so addictive to him.
In 1966 I bought my first Kodak Instamatic 104 camera, on one of my first photo walks, I shot a image of a horse, the horse backed me into an electric fence, then bit me on the leg, Later I won third place at the county fair with the photograph.
I soon realized
“That’s why we do it”
Since those days I have worked as a wedding, portrait, and event, photographer.
Now I do what ever inspires me as go on photo walks alone or with my wife and friends. These are some of the things I have seen in my cameras view finder, as I see new things I will make them available for your enlightenment and wonder of the world we live in.
Stephencrawford.sumgmug.com
Seeing him at the camera made me want to know what he was seeing in there and why was it so addictive to him.
In 1966 I bought my first Kodak Instamatic 104 camera, on one of my first photo walks, I shot a image of a horse, the horse backed me into an electric fence, then bit me on the leg, Later I won third place at the county fair with the photograph.
I soon realized
“That’s why we do it”
Since those days I have worked as a wedding, portrait, and event, photographer.
Now I do what ever inspires me as go on photo walks alone or with my wife and friends. These are some of the things I have seen in my cameras view finder, as I see new things I will make them available for your enlightenment and wonder of the world we live in.
Stephencrawford.sumgmug.com
Dec 22, 2016 13:38:33 #
Actually, it has been all of the missed shots that are embedded in my memories that has finally propelled me to get a D500 to record scenes in the future....
Dec 22, 2016 13:51:10 #
Hi group,
My moments was Feb. 1968 when I developed my first B&W 8x10 in an Army photo lab. I was hooked! Take care & ...
My moments was Feb. 1968 when I developed my first B&W 8x10 in an Army photo lab. I was hooked! Take care & ...
Dec 22, 2016 13:57:02 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Have you had a photographic aha moment? br Maybe ... (show quote)
In 1972, using slide film, aimed my 50mm f1.4 lens at Orion and took about a 15 sec shot. Later, when viewing the slides, was just blown away with how much more I could see. Don't know where that slide is today, but I certainly remember looking at it projected on a screen.
Dec 22, 2016 14:24:02 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I'm still waiting. I think I need a more expensive camera. 
See Jerry, you have a very fundamental confusion that's holding you back!
You don't need more expensive...., you just need BETTER!!
Plus, if you don't have the ability to use BIG WHITE LENSES, that feeling of inadequacy is never gonna go away!
Admit it, when you watch a pro sports event on TV, don't tell us you don't sneak a peek at all those BIG WHITE LENSES?!?!
It's hard to have a proper AHA moment when your always fumbling with a little black camera and lens and no way to change that!!!
The good guys do wear white lenses!!!
SS
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