Comments on: What Was Your First Photography Experience?

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:04:01 +0000

My first experience ended into a Merit Award winner in Scholastic Magazine Photography Contest. It was the evening of the assassination of MLK and I wanted to show what I sensed was the mood of our country on that date. I used a Nikon FTn 35 mm film camera with a 135mm telephoto lens. I aimed my sights on a group of roadside daises. I shot slide film. I showed the road and I took it after a brief shower. The daises had some rain droplets on their petals and stems. I was a senior in High School and due to this event in my life I was prompted to realize that photography was not only an art form, but photography recorded history. I demonstarted the event of that sad day in the history of our country by using photography as an art media which recorded my feelings about that event.

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:28:57 +0000

Funny that this is the subject this week. My mom and I were just talking about this a few days ago. When I was growing up, my dad had an Argus camera he had bought in Germany. No one was allowed to use it. He also had an 8mm movie camera with the same rules. Mom bought me a 110 camera to take for my 8th grade field trip. This my very first experience taking pics. Every time I made any money from babysitting, I used it for film or developing! I had a lot of other point and shoot cameras over the years and worked in film processing through my 20’s. I took lots of pictures of my little brothers and friends. Those 110’s took grainy little pictures but I still loved it. I didn’t get my first SLR (film) until after my daughter was born. I was 32 by then. I still use that camera frequently. Mostly for B&W. I got my first digital about 8 yrs ago. A 3mp Hewett Packard that came free with a printer! I now have a DSLR that I love and wish more than anything that I could have had digital when my daughter was little. I would have been able to take a lot more pics while she was growing up! Dad gave me the old argus about 10 yrs ago. I had some work done on it and it still takes great shots!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:18:45 +0000

I’m 17 by the way

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:18:22 +0000

The camera was an old 110 that came with a pack of batteries if i remember correctly. I was about 7 so i bought the batteries because they came with a free camera.
The pics i took were of things in my backyard that seemed interesting and of my dogs, of course.
I didn’t really get any lessons until years later when my uncle showed me how to use his Canon AE-1 program, and later i used my grandfather’s Sigma SD14, and now i own a Canon EOS 10D and a good old Lomo

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:13:46 +0000

While I took some photos with a point and shoot and some with an very basic 110 film camera, I consider my first photography experience in ‘93. I was use on my high school yearbook staff, and our advisor was a former semi-pro photographer. I borrowed my father’s Canon AV-1 and took some of my first thought out and composed photos. I also learned to develop them as well. I walked away with lessons and skills I still use today.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:15:49 +0000

My first picture taking experience was some time ago (read early 1950’s)with a Kodak Brownie box camera. I think this was a school trip when my folk entrusted me with this paragon of technological wizardry. If you’ve never seen one it’s a film camera shaped like a box with a waist level viewfinder, shutter speed of about 1/60 and a probable f8 lens. Todays XSI I just got is a far cry from where I started.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:05:05 +0000

My first experience was a few months ago. I’d got a Casio Exilim Ex-Z700 camera for christmas back in 2006. I’d never really used it for anything more than taking photos when I went out places like holidays or with friends.
Then, I decided to go out onto the green back in April, when the daffodils were out. I showed my Dad the pictures, and that’s when he said “they’re good, but they could be better……” and he then showed me the Best Shot menu, and macro mode.
He told me all about the sort of pictures you could take and how to take them. So I shot back out onto the green, all excited, crawling around daffodils, and going mad on Macro mode. Since then, I’ve used pretty much every setting on my camera including colour filters.
It was also that experience that led me to this site to learn more about digital photography!

By: George Keller

George Keller — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:01:22 +0000

My first camera was a Kodak Brownie box camera. I think that it used 127 roll film. This was in the mid-1950s, and I was about 8 or 9. The film was black and white, and came back from the drugstore with the prints attached end-to-end and folded accordian-style, with deckled edges. The subjects were my family and our dog.

I didn’t do much photography after that until I graduated from college in 1970, and bought my first SLR, a Konica Autoreflex T to photograph my girlfriend (who is still my wife). After many years and a number of other SLRs, I’m now happily shooting with my third digital camera, a Canon 720IS, and experimenting with the CHDK software that greatly expands the capabilities of the camera.

By: Octenai

Octenai — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:06:09 +0000

My firts camera was A film Kodak Cam (and still had it as a memory but don’t use it)… when I was 6…
My Dad bought it for me cuase he bought an SLR for himself…
Photographing was my favorite hoppy since then…
My first shot was at school… it was a portrait shot for my best friend Senthia…
And still keep that photo with my first Cam as a memory…

By: Octenai

Octenai — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:05:48 +0000

My firsy camera was A film Kodak Cam (and still had it as a memory but don’t use it)… when I was 6…
My Dad bought it for me cuase he bought an SLR for himself…
Photographing was my favorite hoppy since then…
My first shot was at school… it was a portrait shot for my best friend Senthia…
And still keep that photo with my first Cam as a memory…