Curious, how did you start out?
Jan 20, 2013 14:42:44 #
Just wondering when you first started out with your hobbie in photography did you do it all for free or did you make alittle money at it? Just curious to know your photography journey :)
Jan 20, 2013 15:11:43 #
kurme wrote:
Just wondering when you first started out with your hobbie in photography did you do it all for free or did you make alittle money at it? Just curious to know your photography journey :)
I started as a scuba diver... I went into a dive shop and brought a Nikonos II underwater camera. Didn't know an f stop from a bus stop, so I joined a camera club. This was in 1968. The members didn't want anyone owning a lovely Nikon camera being so dumb about photography so they took me under their wing. After more than forty years, I'm still learning, but now I do almost impossible camera challenges. Photography has taken me to many strange places and opened unexpected doors. See more at..
http://www.andy-underwood-author.com
This is the first picture I ever had published (in my local paper, to promote the dive-club back in 1968).
And my first national competition winner... Jamie.
Both of these were taken on the Nikonos II with its superb 35mm f2.8 lens.
I HOPE EVERYONE POSTING A REPLY WILL ADD AT LEAST ONE PICTURE. It makes reading the replies much more interesting.
Diver in swimming pool 1968
Jamie on Roundabout 1970
Jan 20, 2013 15:18:06 #
[quote=Andy Scuba]
I started as a scuba diver... I went into a dive shop and brought a Nikonos II underwater camera. Didn't know an f stop from a bus stop, so I joined a camera club. This was in 1968. The members didn't want anyone owning a lovely Nikon camera being so dumb about photography so they took me under their wing. After more than forty years, I'm still learning, but now I do almost impossible camera challenges. Photography has taken me to many strange places and opened unexpected doors. See more at..
http://www.andy-underwood-author.com
Andy, we started diving at about the same time. Using double hose regs, horse collars and J-valves. Those where the days!
Congrats on your first winner!!
kurme wrote:
Just wondering when you first started out with your hobbie in photography did you do it all for free or did you make alittle money at it? Just curious to know your photography journey :)
I started as a scuba diver... I went into a dive shop and brought a Nikonos II underwater camera. Didn't know an f stop from a bus stop, so I joined a camera club. This was in 1968. The members didn't want anyone owning a lovely Nikon camera being so dumb about photography so they took me under their wing. After more than forty years, I'm still learning, but now I do almost impossible camera challenges. Photography has taken me to many strange places and opened unexpected doors. See more at..
http://www.andy-underwood-author.com
Andy, we started diving at about the same time. Using double hose regs, horse collars and J-valves. Those where the days!
Congrats on your first winner!!
Jan 20, 2013 15:25:07 #
My father purchased a canon rebel for me as a gift for christmas 5 years ago. I fell in love with photography and wanted to learn more and more. I started taking pictures of friends for free, then their friends started asking and I started to ask for a small amount to cover my travel expenses and such, then a friend at my photography club told me I need to charge more. Slowly I have cutting back on the amount of sessions I take but raising my prices. Last year my average sales per customer has been steady enough that I left my full time job to work on my photography business full time
Jan 20, 2013 15:30:46 #
[quote=SharpShooter]
Jeah! Divers were real men... in those days. Homemade gear and no rules! (How did we survive?)
DON'T FORGET TO POST AT LEAST ONE PICTURE!
(even a silly one like this!)
Andy Scuba wrote:
quote=kurme Just wondering when you first started... (show quote)
Jeah! Divers were real men... in those days. Homemade gear and no rules! (How did we survive?)
DON'T FORGET TO POST AT LEAST ONE PICTURE!
(even a silly one like this!)
Sureal Surfer
Jan 20, 2013 15:36:44 #
Started with a P&S in high school a few years ago. That was fine I just wanted to snap pics to have memories later of my friends. Then I wanted to capture memories of other things but that simple little p&s would just not capture the pics I wanted to get. So I stepped up to a bridge camera a year and a half ago. Soon I'll be in a DSLR. Have I made any money at it, heck no! Not yet anyway. I have won a little money from my county fair I entered this past year(Which is amazing because they give me money and it's free for me to enter.) I will make money at it one day, but not while I'm still practicing.
Jan 20, 2013 15:41:48 #
In the early sixties a good friend got me interested in photography and sold me his Nikon F when he upgraded to something else. I used that camera for a lot of years and then lost interest and quit. Then five or six years ago another friend rekindled my interest.
Jan 20, 2013 15:48:45 #
My father & mother gave me a Brownie Hawkeye & developing kit to hopefully stop me from heading into the city every Friday night. That was in 1952. It worked for a while.
I have never stopped taking picture although I don't develop them anymore.
I have never stopped taking picture although I don't develop them anymore.
Jan 20, 2013 16:02:33 #
I started in the early 70's when I was in the US Air Force stationed at Bentwaters England in Suffolk. I bought a Nikkormat El wwitch I still have. Lost interest because I could not afford the pice of film and develoment. In 2007
I discovered digital. I started with a Nikon coolpix 4300. Then a Nikon bridge camera, now a Nikon D-90 and D-7000. I have not made enought money to buy anything, but that will not stop my love for photography.
I discovered digital. I started with a Nikon coolpix 4300. Then a Nikon bridge camera, now a Nikon D-90 and D-7000. I have not made enought money to buy anything, but that will not stop my love for photography.
Jan 20, 2013 16:05:17 #
kurme wrote:
Just wondering when you first started out with your hobbie in photography did you do it all for free or did you make alittle money at it? Just curious to know your photography journey :)
In the late 1960's, my brother-in-law came for a visit. He brought his Miranda Sensorex SLR. I had never seen a camera like that up close, so I spent a lot of time asking questions, which he was glad to answer.
Shortly after he left, I got one for myself, and I've been using SLRs and DSLRs ever since.
Jan 20, 2013 16:20:41 #
Started in the mid- fifties with Kodak B&W 120 and 35mm. Moved to SLR then later to digital point and shoot to try out digital and found the free pictures and instant developing a blast. After a year or so moved to my first DSLR and have never looked back. Though I have spent a bundle on equipment over the years I have enjoyed every minute I have been behing the lens. Never had a desire to try to make it a profession I shoot for myself, family and friends.
Jan 20, 2013 17:37:42 #
Rob O'
Loc: Freakin' Hot Arizona
I started with an old Yashica 35mm, then a Mamiya 500dtl. I worked for a Honda dealer for awhile and went to the short track races (indoors!)and motocross and took pics one week and sold the prints to the riders the next week. It pretty much paid for the camera, but then I got married and had to get a real job. Since then, just a hobby. But a very enjoyable one.
Jan 20, 2013 18:13:39 #
My father let me advance the film on a Hawkeye Instamatic back in the mid 1960s. Loved the sound of that ratchet...
Then there were super 8 movies in 1972, a Pentax Auto 110 mini SLR in 1981, and frame capture from an 8mm camcorder in the 1990s. But that's all ancient history now...
Then there were super 8 movies in 1972, a Pentax Auto 110 mini SLR in 1981, and frame capture from an 8mm camcorder in the 1990s. But that's all ancient history now...
Jan 20, 2013 20:32:43 #
There was another thread like this in June.
Interesting reading.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-45899-1.html
Interesting reading.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-45899-1.html
Jan 20, 2013 20:50:17 #
kurme wrote:
Just wondering when you first started out with your hobbie in photography did you do it all for free or did you make alittle money at it? Just curious to know your photography journey :)
Bought a canon FTb and long lens in 1976 to take pictures of the tall ships comming up Chesapeake Bay as part of the nation's 200 year celebration. It's been upgrade, buy, sell, and trade ever since. :(
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