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 ID: 172911 Posts: 251 | Date: 2007-03-06 06:10 i've noticed bunch of photographer here and thought maybe they would like to
share their stories  so, how have you started you photographer career? how have
you realized that this is what you want to do? was it because of some people
influence? or because of someone said your pictures was great? just tell your
story  |
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| Date: 2007-04-17 18:54 most have worked with others and branch out on their own !!!!!!!!!! |
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 ID: 182744 Posts: 1738 | Date: 2007-05-20 01:13 My first professional photo was shot with a Kodak 110 camera.
For those who do not remember what 110 was, there is a picture below.
I stumbled into the industry not on purpose. I was Art Director for a print
shop. A job came in and the photo given to us of the product we absolutely
refused to use because it was of such poor quality. Engaging my mouth before my
brain I blurted out 'Anyone can do abetter job than that". The customer was on
tight deadline and couldn't get the photographer (who was insulted) to reshoot
that day. He told me to do something better.
Oops.
Well, I had my little pocket camera handy and I had once, as a kid, built a pin
hole camera for a science fair. 110 has a fixed lens, plastic, and smaller than
the diameter of a pencil eraser. Its film is 16mm in a unique catridge design.
The print shop had a darkroom and a giant bellows camera with with four 1000
watt halogen lights so I figured with the lights configured right, I could get a
decent shot. I set to experimenting. Two rolls of bracketed shots later I had a
product shot worthy of printing. The customer loved it, bragged about me to
businesses in town and people started bringing me their products to shoot.
Things took off from there as an additional income source in my spare time. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should  |
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 ID: 183878 Posts: 1174 | Date: 2007-05-20 11:47 Although I had been given as a birthday present a dual lens Brownie when I was
10 or 11, like everyone else in my family, the film rolls were dropped off at
the drugstore. In the Army, I bought more sophisticated cameras and learned some
basic darkroom, but the base hobby shop tech preferred to prepare everything in
advance and, if the negatives were interesting, he'd "help" you print. So I
didn't learn a lot.
Other that following the general directions about sun, shade and indoors
included with the film, I didn't pay any attention to the greater capabilities
of the equipment. Convenience was my only criteria.
I went into the Peace Corps following my Army years ( I wanted to balance my
karma -- before I really knew what that meant -- and see more of the world) and
went to India with what I thought was the height of convenience, a Kodak
Instamatic 126. I got there and discovered (1) that instamatic film was
unavailable except in Delhi at horribly high prices and (2) Indian light often
overwhelmed the simple range of exposure the Instamatic could handle.
I had made friends with a family returned to India from living overseas that had
quite a few toys-- a Mercedes-Benz, for one--and they lent me a Contax with
interchangeable lenses for more than a year. In the Peace Corps bookcase (a
double box of books each volunteer was given when arriving in country) was a
book on photography featuring Pentax SLR cameras. It covered the basics in a
easy-to-understand fashion and that helped me to understand the complexities of
the Contax (although quite different from the Pentax--shutter in the lens vs
focal plane).
I learned as I shot as much as I could afford. Soviet film was readily
available, but other brands were rare. Color slide had to go to Delhi for
processing, but B&W could be done locally. At some point, I realized I really
liked shooting as much as I liked writing, maybe more.
When I returned to the states to begin college (I was a much older freshman than
most) I added courses in photography and, eventually, spent a year in technical
school taking the photo course here in Daytona Beach. Been doing what I do ever
since. Next year will be 40 years as a photographer/writer, somewhat different
than being a photojournalist since my PJ friends seldom can write an
intelligible sentence.If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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 ID: 189228 Posts: 294 | Date: 2007-05-22 15:46 I have no idea "why" I decided to start taking photos. I just picked up a
camera, decided to be good at it and went from there.
But it began with helping out local bands.
Little bands will jump excitedly at the chance for anyone to give them some pr,
and the slightest amount of effort towards that can wow them.
I suppose I liked photography well enough.
It was the excitement I went through and felt while doing the photo shoots that
made me continue.
Specially when the girlfriends of the local bands would get angry at me and
threaten to beat the crap out of me while I was shooting the band out of
jealousy.
Ahh those were the days.
Nothing motivates me more then unreasonable anger and humor!Everything I've done, and all that I have yet to do, is only to forget the meaning of your name. |
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