How long have you seriously been into photography/SLR photography?
Apr 17, 2012 16:54:00 #
I'm interested in knowing how long some of you have been in the game?
I've been reading and learning a hell of a lot, after buying my first DSLR at Christmas a few months ago. Before that it was all cell phone camera shots. This board has been a great resouce and I can't wait to keep learning more and more!
I've been reading and learning a hell of a lot, after buying my first DSLR at Christmas a few months ago. Before that it was all cell phone camera shots. This board has been a great resouce and I can't wait to keep learning more and more!
Apr 17, 2012 16:57:07 #
Apr 17, 2012 16:59:37 #
I got my first DSLR in 2009, only really started to learn how to use it late in 2010 (hubby got me the "understandign exposure" book for Christmas 2010 and that's what got my juices going. So I've been shoting seriously for just around 2 years.
Apr 17, 2012 17:10:24 #
Hi.....have been shooting SLR 35mm for about 40 years....switched to a point amd shoot in about 2001.....used that for a couple of months before going full DSLR......am now using a Canon 7 D. I have not shot any film since.....I have so much control over the outcome of a photo now and love to do post production work.
Apr 17, 2012 17:15:46 #
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Apr 17, 2012 17:44:18 #
My first SLR was an Olympus OM-1 In the mid 70s. My first DSLR was a Canon 20D in the early oughts. I moved up to Nikon the late oughts when I bought a Nikon D90. I now use the Nikon D7000.
Apr 17, 2012 17:48:41 #
Mac wrote:
My first SLR was an Olympus OM-1 In the mid 70s. My first DSLR was a Canon 20D in the early oughts. I moved up to Nikon the late oughts when I bought a Nikon D90. I now use the Nikon D7000.
I had friends and knew a couple Pros shooting Canons in the 70's and was about to make the jump to Canon, but that was when they dumped all their old lens mounts and forced everyone to buy all new lenses for the new bodies. Everyone I knew shooting Canon became Nikonians within a year, as did I. I have never looked back, or regretted it either.
Apr 17, 2012 18:13:19 #
on and off 43 years, got real serious about it 10 years ago, got super serious with the rise of digital. hating paying for the development of 36 exp when maybe 3 or 4 were good enough for prints. interestin and quality of my work took a huge kick start when I read learing to see creatively by bryan petersen.
Apr 17, 2012 18:20:27 #
I bought my first SLR, a Pentax K1000, with the proceeds of my 4H steer in about 1977. A couple years later, a friend and I got hired by the 4H Council to do portraits of the sale participants, buyers and animals at the fair sale. He shot color with his Canon AE1 and I shot B&W with my Pentax. We processed the B&W ourselves and sent the color out.
After college, I didn't shoot much because of expense. I started to get the photo bug again in 2007 when I got a cel phone with a small camera. I progressed to borrowing the Canon point and shoot my Dad got for his birthday and then bought my Nikon D3000 in November 2010.
After college, I didn't shoot much because of expense. I started to get the photo bug again in 2007 when I got a cel phone with a small camera. I progressed to borrowing the Canon point and shoot my Dad got for his birthday and then bought my Nikon D3000 in November 2010.
Apr 17, 2012 18:29:53 #
In 1977 I worked as a British car mechanic in Portland Oregon. My employer stiffed me so I stold his Triumph Spitfire and Leica lllc. I eventually gave the car back, but keeped camera. About a year later I went to work in a big catalog studio in Chicago.
Apr 17, 2012 19:10:54 #
Beowulf
Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI
1954. Several each of Contaxes, Pentaxes, Minoltas, Yashica TLRs, Mamiya TLRs later, and settled on Nikons (both film and digital slrs) for the last 35 years or so.
Apr 17, 2012 19:21:39 #
I got bitten by the photography bug in my early 20's--that would be 20 or so years ago.
I had a few 'wish I was a SLR' film P&S's and a couple more of the same in digital.
I always lusted after the real thing and always hoped to get my grandfather's AE1--he gave it to his son.
The D3000 that I have now is my first dslr and I bought it a little over a year ago.
I had a few 'wish I was a SLR' film P&S's and a couple more of the same in digital.
I always lusted after the real thing and always hoped to get my grandfather's AE1--he gave it to his son.
The D3000 that I have now is my first dslr and I bought it a little over a year ago.
Apr 17, 2012 19:38:40 #
I caught the photo bug in mid 2007 when I bought my horse. I have always enjoyed taking photos but really started paying attention and 'trying for that shot' thanks to the horse. Went from a point and shoot to a bridge camera in 2010, which just added fuel to the fire, and less then a year later got the DLSR.
Apr 17, 2012 19:58:46 #
Stef C wrote:
I'm interested in knowing how long some of you have been in the game?
I've been reading and learning a hell of a lot, after buying my first DSLR at Christmas a few months ago. Before that it was all cell phone camera shots. This board has been a great resouce and I can't wait to keep learning more and more!
I've been reading and learning a hell of a lot, after buying my first DSLR at Christmas a few months ago. Before that it was all cell phone camera shots. This board has been a great resouce and I can't wait to keep learning more and more!
Well, my list is a bit longish...
35mm Film SLRs: 1965 ish
First Chemical Lab: 1970
6x6cm Hasselblad: 1976
Arriflex 16mm Movie Cameras: 1976
Student Academy Award Nomination 1977
First Film (Showtime) as Director of Photography: 1978
Built First Commercial Studio 1980
4x5 Sinar: 1980
Steadicam: 1980
Tyler Helicopter Mount: 1987
All things Video: 1980-forward
Film made final round, New York Film Festival, 1986
Photoshop: 1986
Pro Lab (Chemicals and Enlargers) 1987
Arriflex 35mm Movie Cameras: 1990
Panavision: 1991
DSLRs: 2000
RED: 2008
3D Rigs: 2003 forward
3D Camera Design: 2007
All kinds of lighting throughout. Strobes, HMI, Tungsten, LED, Fluorescent, etc.
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