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05-04-2010, 06:55 PM   #1
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Why ?

What initially got you interested in photography, how did it happen?
Personally, I've always felt out of place with my age group, and have spent a lot of time around (highschool and college) art students. I can't really draw, and I enjoy old, mechanical things, so I kind of fell into photography as a way to keep up artistically and... (I know this is a near cringe-worthy, cliche statement) to give myself something of an artistic voice. I know composition, balance, and the rule of threes inside out, I just can't draw. So I picked up photography, film, naturally (what else for an art student?) and never looked back.

How did it happen for you?

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Years ago, I was a male pron star. As it is now, it was way back when, and there was a still photographer on set while we were filming.
One day between takes, I picked up his camera and started snapping pictures of the female lead.
I was hooked on photography the moment I snapped my first picture.
He happened to be using a Pentax, and so you can thank the pron industry for my being here today.
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One day between takes, I picked up his camera and started snapping pictures of the female lead.
I was hooked on photography the moment I snapped my first picture.
I have seen gaffers listed in credits of movies many times.
Not once sir, have I seen these "hookers" listed!


Can you show me were?... is a phone number with it?
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Through the "90's" I used to go down to the drag racing at Calder Park, (Victoria, Australia) to watch the fuelers, funny cars & doorslammers and always borrowed a camera (film) of someone or a family friend, usually a little compact with zoom. Then years later I used to have an RC 1/8 scale nitro buggy that I used to race at a local RC club and decided to get a new camera and got a little Fujifilm S5600 to get some shots of the RC buggy racing. That got me intersested in photography and the more I learnt the more I got into it. So Then I decided to get a DSLR ans went with the K20D.

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My dad was an avid amateur photographer with old manual Pentax gear when I was a kid in the 70's and 80's. I always like taking a turn with the camera which he'd set up for me and hand over. I eventually got a ME Super hand-me-down that I took to college where I got my studio art degree. I used it mostly for capturing a scene that I would later paint in watercolor. But then I started liking the photos as much as the paintings. When digital got here the instant gratification hooked me for good. Now I haven't (seriously) painted in years.
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I really do not know what sparked an interest in me. Literally one day I came accross this forum (don't remember how I did that either, haha) and stared to read about photography. I had a point and shoot for many ears but NEVER played with the settings, always left it in auto. After reading a little about apatures, shutter speed, ISO, and how different lenses can give different effects, it made me want to read more and more. I tried some very menial settings on my P&S and that lit the fire. I read and read about entry-level DSLRs and everywhere I read the Kx seemed to stand out so about 2 months I purchased one and now have 5 lenses in my bag and counting.

So you can thank this forum for getting me hooked.
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Back in the mid 80s, I bought a Program Plus just before I got posted to Turkey so I could capture some of the things I would see there. I was in what was called at the time, a NATO field unit, and I would take my camera when we would go on our trips or do official camping. The downside of this was that I would get pressed into service as an un-official official photographer by the people I worked for, especially since official photographers were practically non-existent.
I guess I've just been doing it ever since.

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I remember having a little 110 camera as a kid, stealing the family polaroid whenever I could tip toe away with it and tiding myself over camera-less college years with disposables whenever I could afford them. I was dirt poor there for quite a long while and film/development were out of the question (heck, eating was almost out of the question), but at some point I came into some money and the first thing I bought - best P&S I could afford. When digital came along, I got the very first ultra-crappy P&S digital cameras I could get my hands on - photography without paying for film or development! You mean I can eat and shoot pictures at the same time? Gimme. The very first moment I could afford a DSLR, I got one. It's been full speed ahead ever since - I just wish I'd been able to afford photography as a hobby the past 20 years, cause I'd be that much further along my learning curve right now

What did I see in photography that drew me to it? I've wanted taken photographs to represent not the seen, but the felt, the experienced. I can't draw, so that leaves photos. Whenever I see or create photographs that do that, it thrills me to my toes. That's why I've always loved cameras, that's why I still love cameras, that's why cameras will probably never lose their interest for me
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QuoteOriginally posted by Wheatfield Quote
Years ago, I was a male pron star. As it is now, it was way back when, and there was a still photographer on set while we were filming.
One day between takes, I picked up his camera and started snapping pictures of the female lead.
I was hooked on photography the moment I snapped my first picture.
He happened to be using a Pentax, and so you can thank the pron industry for my being here today.
You would have made more money (and had more fun), if you were a porn star rather than a pron star.
05-05-2010, 08:36 PM   #10
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05-05-2010, 09:20 PM   #11
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Well, you know, nudity had a lot to do with that, I am sure. :ugh:
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I started exploring photography about a year ago when I bought an entry level DSLR. I was and still am thoroughly interested in photography as a form of escape and relaxation. I have been a single parent to two teenagers (now 17 and 20) for the past 10 years and I work in a very emotionally demanding field (with adult survivors of brain injury - stroke, trauma, tumour etc). Getting out with my camera or playing with the images on my computer is a real release and an opportunity to spend money on me for a change. Despite the ongoing desire to buy more equipment, just getting out for a few hours with a camera is actually a very affordable form of escape.

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Bitten by a radioactive Mamiya as a toddler.

Err,

Well, you see, one day, at a tender young middle-school age, RatmagicGirl, while long since having been expected back in class, was on the run from some school administrators, custodial staff, some older kids with a vehemently different opinion about the worthiness of a few of her immigrant friends, and a rather tightly-wound librarian that she introduced the former to by way of a bit of diversionary action... Success! Dah-da dah! But for how long? Quickly, she doubled back past the whole scene and into a bolthole she knew of... *click* Ooops...

This time, rather than the usual closet-like blackness, the light was kind of amberish in there. And there was this older girl in there who didn't turn me in.
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I grew up in Fla. in the 60's when surfing began to take off as a major sport. I would go nuts waiting for the next issue of Surfer magazine to come out each month and looking at all the pictures from all those places I had never been. My grandfather had given me a Kodak twin lens camera and I would spend most of my money on film, standing chest deep in water trying to take surfing pictures of my freinds.They were all really crappy as you can imagine but I never quit, saved money for a "real camera" and 50+ years later I'm still at it.
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fell in love with alaska with a camera in my hands
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