When, Where and how you started in photography (Page 10): I am not sure, late 50's early 60's with a 620 box camera. i was just a kid, born in 1947 and set up staged shots with model...

jbmauser Loc: Roanoke, VA

I am not sure, late 50's early 60's with a 620 box camera. i was just a kid, born in 1947 and set up staged shots with model my planes attacking model ships. Planes hanging from fishing line, ship on a sheet, ocean. pics of animals and laying in the grass with my sister putting her foot on our house. A perspective shot, did not know that at the time.

Ed Commons

I got started in 1967. I was in the Air Force at a Tech School in Illinois. A buddy was into to photography. On weekends he went to the base photo hobby shop and developed film and made prints (B&W).. I went with him and learned to develop film and make prints. One week end we took the thrain to Chicago and I bought my first camera, an Argus C3. 50mm f5.6 lense with rangefider focus. ( I can see younger members of the forum sating what???? )

paulrnzpn Loc: New Zealand

jbmauser wrote:

I am not sure, late 50's early 60's with a 620 box camera. i was just a kid, born in 1947 and set up staged shots with model my planes attacking model ships. Planes hanging from fishing line, ship on a sheet, ocean. pics of animals and laying in the grass with my sister putting her foot on our house. A perspective shot, did not know that at the time.

That sounds familiar. You see, I have a friend in Sydney who does a lot of photos like that. He assembles kitset models of all sorts - Star Wars stuff, cars, planes, etc - and sets them up for staged photos. He adds his own touches, such and the painting, and he even puts lights inside some of them. He won the Sc-Fi category in a kitset model exhibition recently.

And I do a bit of this sort of thing too, but I use die-cast model cars, mainly.

My dad used a Kodak box camera.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

My parents gave me a basic Kodak box camera {I believe they had gotten it for n Kelloggs box tops} in the mid 1950’s when I was 8. By the time I was in high school, they had given me a Kodak Instamatic 100 and the Kodak “Duaflex” my Dad had used to photograph me {I accidentally left it behind in one of our moves}. When I graduated from college, I used college graduation money to purchase a Yashica Minister III. Then in 1979 I purchased a SLR, and have used (D)SLR’s ever since.

SteveW8703 Loc: Las Vegas, Nv

Sorry for not responding sooner. Wow, I would love to see some of your photography.

SteveW8703 Loc: Las Vegas, Nv

Very interesting, I bet you've taken millions of photographs. Love to see some.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

SteveW8703 wrote:

Sorry for not responding sooner. Wow, I would love to see some of your photography.

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SteveW8703 Loc: Las Vegas, Nv

That's amazing story, my very first camera came from my late dad's equipment Kodak Retina II. I haven't always been an active photographer. Some times I don't take my equipment out unless I know I'm traveling. Sometimes I just lose the desire to put things together.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

SteveW8703 wrote:

That's amazing story, my very first camera came from my late dad's equipment Kodak Retina II. I haven't always been an active photographer. Some times I don't take my equipment out unless I know I'm traveling. Sometimes I just lose the desire to put things together.

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OddRockerPhotography Loc: Virginia

burkphoto wrote:

Check out the work of Henry Diltz. He hung around all the crazies in Laurel Canyon, back in the 1960s and early '70s, photographing rock celebrities and smoking dope. He recently gave a lecture at B&H https://youtu.be/lrG2rv6YLfQ?si=LtdXJafFofiwIJAW where he talks about his journey and presents a slide show of some of his work.

Diltz also photographed Woodstock.

Here are links to more from Diltz: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=henry+diltz+documentary

Diltz, Marshall, Weiss, Halfin... so many! If only I reach their status, someday