The shot that made you love photography

[mistyp]

I planned this shot for months--it was the whole reason I put up the Christmas tree last year I liked how it turned out but wished I could have done better.

[PLouie]

My photo is a little bigger than some of yours but it's a small file size so I hope it's okay.



I had been shooting pictures for about a month and a half by then. This was one of the first photos I felt proud of. The post processing really made the difference here.

Hope you guys like it too. It's one of my most favorited photos on DeviantArt.

[Nicole]

awww, that's a very sweet shot mistyp.

[phlyersphan]

I wish I had the energy to dig it out of the box and scan it - it was a picture of a friend of mine that I took from the back seat of my convertible, while another friend was driving. He's waving into the car's side mirror at me, and I caught the shot in the mirror. It was a complete fluke.

I've always been the one running around snapping photos with a point-n-shoot camera. I knew someday I'd get into it more seriously, as my dad was very much into photography as a serious hobby.

I got my first dSLR this summer, and I'm head over heels in love

[Palachandra]

I purchased my first camera in August 2006, and this was my first trip with camera.

I shot this in my trip with friends to welcome New Year 2007. Love the timing..

[WooD]

This wood probably be mine. I shot it thru the railings of our local pier.


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[neilwood]

The shot that made me love photography is the one i posted as my first landscape in the landscapes section!

Before that i was hoping that i might be able to do something decent with a camera but after posting it and getting the responses i realise that "Yeah i can use a camera and actually take decent shots!"

[jiminyClickit]

This was hard compared to a few months ago, because each time a new piece of the puzzle of photography falls into place, I find a new reason to love it. This one was the first time I saw some quality missing in previous shots, had very different responses on DPS, and offers to buy from local viewers:

[Isilwen]

This is from the very first "photography" walk I went on when I got my 2MP digital camera. I see loads wrong with it now, but I was SO proud of this picture at the time! I turned into an addict from this day on and I love to go back and look at that first year of pictures. The enthusiasm comes back every time!

This waterfall looks really small, but I have a second shot with my husband back in the cavern behind the water and he's a tiny tiny speck. That "moss" everywhere is actually full-grown shrubbery... LOL

[wulf]

For me, it was before I had a digital camera but after I had the ability to digitise photos and software to manipulate them. If I had to pick one shot that is available online, it would be this one (digital montage of my wife and I on holiday in Switzterland in 1999):



However, I think what piqued my interest was when I took one of my wedding photographs a few years earlier and swapped our heads. That was always a talking point, stuck at the back of the album, in the early years of our marriage when we would see friends and get the wedding pictures down

However, it is definitely the fact that I continue to be able to take pictures that impress me that keeps me going with the hobby (and the more I learn, the more I can do).

Wulf