How did your passion for photography start?

[eNZee]

Originally Posted by AnneWynne

I have also found that when you have a "big" camera and act like you know what you are doing, it is an entry ticket to many things.

lol so i wasnt crazy feeling that way too. i thought it was just my imagination
in any case, thats a great story.

wonderful stories. mines so boring compared to other peoples its great though to get an insight of individual backgrounds

[m.c.adams]

We had a family friend when I was very young, that would give me his Nikon whenever they around, then he would take the camera home, develop the photos and bring them back to me. That got me started at about 12 yrs. old. In junior high school, my father gave me a Argus C3 and I became the school photographer. Since then, I have owned countless cameras and still have about 25 that I still use from time to time.
Mark

[newPerspective]

Facebook! LOL! Yes Facebook is my culprit. In Spring of 2008 I found my long last high-school buddy on Facebook. It was so long since we had drifted apart that it was like getting to know each other again and finding out about the new talents and acquired skills. Turns out that she is a good photograph. Every week she posted a new album of pictures on FB that were very well taken.

My husband, who is a good photographer and a tough critique commented that she has a 'good eye for photography'. Dint realize that one remark would change my life. I don't think I was jealous, but I had believed that my friend and I were like 2 bodies 1 soul back in high-school days, we were much alike. So, that gave me the confidence that I can do well in photography too, perhaps! So I HAD to get myself my own point-n-shoot. Dint want to use hubby's camera because I was on a mission to learn and to prove myself.

I kept taking pictures of the kids and random things around me. But hubby being hubby was very tough on me while critiquing my shots. So I had to work twice as hard to improve.

Soon hubby to had to leave and go overseas for a 6 months project. I made the best use of that opportunity to practice (sometimes even middle of the night after the kids fell asleep, cos nobody was there to think Iwsa insane ). Meanwhile he was missing our daughters and getting very homesick, so I kept taking new pictures of the kids and made a conscious effort to up my level every time. Only because I had this self-imposed onerous task of impressing hubby and to show to my dear friend that we are still the same .

So, in a matter a few months I grew from a P&S to a Bridge camera to a DSLRs to macro lenses and more ..... (I'm already scheming a Studio Lighting set-up) .

I have to admit that DPS has played a HUGE role in my progress. Meri Bocu DPS.

[Daytonj6]

Filming was too expensive and too hard to just go out and create....


so im stuck with this :P

[eNZee]

Originally Posted by Daytonj6

Filming was too expensive and too hard to just go out and create....


so im stuck with this :P

you say that like its a bad thing

[aWhisperWithin]

My love of photography started when i was 14, i got a kodak something a rather for my 15ht birthday and on the night of my party i took a photo of one of my best friends and his mum - a month later she was killed tragicly and the photo that sat on her coffin was the one i took... it captured so much about her, she had a beautiful smile and my friend was swinging her around, her eyes were lit up and it was just how i'll always remember her... I remember sitting there thinking that i wanted to create the same thing for other people, i wanted to capture peoples heart through photos, show them for who they are.

Last year my fiace` brought me a canon eos 1000D and i've been even more inlove ever since! With photography and him hahaha.

[Drake]

I got started in elementary school the librarian was a photographer and she got me started and now in junior high i got a dslr and now its taken off

Mine started almost exactly a year ago. I always wanted a nice DSLR, but my wife always said "No, too expensive".

My wife and I got drunk...can't remember the occassion, but there was a lot of wine involved. My wife said "I'd like to learn more about photography" and I said "I saw a good deal on a Canon XSi from Dell"...and promptly went to the computer and ordered it.

My friend was getting married the next weekend, and he found out I was getting this nifty new camera. He asked me to take a bunch of photos because he hated the photographer (still don't know why they used her). So I bought a 50mm f1.8 and took a whole bunch of shots during the reception (the primary photographer left before the first dance). At the time, I thought the photos were pretty good (lol...they're crap compared to what I shot last weekend).

I was hooked, as was my wife (who also took a lot of photos during the reception). Within a month we got the telephoto lens and 580exII, and have been slowly building up gear ever since (50mm f1.4, 70-200 f2.8, 430exII, T1i...)

My passion for speed photography started when a group of us got together to shoot water drops. Someone mentioned "sound trigger", and I looked it up on the internet. Found out it was cheap to build...and that was the start of my ballistics and milkdrop photography.

[daddyoproductions]

Four years ago I had the two most beautiful children (at the same time even!) on the planet.

I took over the family camera when I was a kid because my mom cut people's heads off and my dad, well, alcohol tends to cause a little camera shake But it wasn't until we had our twins that the hobby exploded; I posed them and dressed them up (and still do) and eventually the hubby got involved too. Only wished we had more knowledge and a better camera since the beginning; those early shots were on a 2mb P&S and there's only so much fixing can be done to them now.

[Combat Jack]

Mine was pretty funny when I think about it. I was picking classes for my senior year in highschool and wanted as many blow off classes as I could take. Well my sister was the year book editor and her teacher taught a photojournalism class and to me that seemed like the ultimate blow off class so I took it. By the end of the year I had bought a Canon Powershot and was taking mad pictures!! Some where in between I enlisted with the Marine Corps as a Combat Photographer and have been doing it ever since and soon hope to make it a career as a photojournalist : )