How long have you been doing photography for? (dated 20/02/11)

[thirtyfivefifty]

Since December 2005, about 6 years now! Surprisingly, I hated the idea photography up until that point, but we know now that was just out of ignorance.

 

[DSkjaeve]

I got my first camera in April 2010 shortly after I started working in a photography store.
I never owned a camera prior to this and got hired for my selling/adminstrative skills. My job description included selling cameras so I had to learn about shutters, apertures and whatnot. I found an Canon AE-1 in a box and started to fiddle and I realised I liked taking
photographs.

Before this I had literally no interest in taking photos.

23 when I started, so one could say I was a late bloomer.

 

[FrankS]

Wow, over 50% of voters have been doing photography for over 30 years.

We are a bunch of old fogies!

 

[sepiareverb]

My grandfather gave me a Brownie Hawkeye when I was seven (in 1969) so I could "remember things". My father had just been posted to San Antonio by the Army and we were getting ready to head west. I still have that camera. And I still remember things I saw through it.

 

[ErnestoJL]

I think of Photography as if it is a kind of chronic disease or infection.
It won´t kill you, it will get worse with time, there is no known cure for it (only going broke?), it will go with you up to the coffin, and one second before you´ll be thinking about who will inherit your cameras and what their future could be.
It all depends on how young you were at the time of being infected.
Cheers
Ernesto

 

[BobYIL]

Wow, over 50% of voters have been doing photography for over 30 years.

We are a bunch of old fogies!

Sometimes I am more proud of the teenagers here in RFF who use film over (or besides) digital than my half a century in photography.

 

[Cyriljay]

😀😀Me I am doing thing more than 15yers. Plus. I am still learning. Now I am on the curve of Digital. This is non ending!!

 

[cosmonaut]

I bought my first camera in 1987. But I have been playing with cameras since I was a kid. I knew the relation between apeture and shutter speed for a long time before I bought my first camera. Tough question but I'll go with 1987. Even though I remember using Polaroids, instamatics ect for years before that.

 

[Shade]

30-40 years plus? Wow hahaha...

 

[selloutboy]

I admire those who have been practicing it for 20++ years and above 🙂

Started in Late '08 with my mom's P&S... now using my own M 😀

 

[ankaka]

10 years. I'm a canon user.😉

 

[miatab]

How long Have you been doing Photography For?

How long Have you been doing Photography For?

My English Teacher's mind says, "Put that preposition at the start." Then, after slapping my face for my arrogance, I say," I've been a 35mm photographer for 52 years, starting with a little 24x24 Robot clockwork driven motor winder camera with a Zeiss f2 screw mount lens. I pray God will give me quite a few more years before my own shutter sticks/ticker shuts."

 

[BobYIL]

My English Teacher's mind says, "Put that preposition at the start." Then, after slapping my face for my arrogance, I say," I've been a 35mm photographer for 52 years, starting with a little 24x24 Robot clockwork driven motor winder camera with a Zeiss f2 screw mount lens. I pray God will give me quite a few more years before my own shutter sticks/ticker shuts."

Hmmmm... all shutters needs CLA after some decades..😀

 

[unixrevolution]

I got seriously into photography in November 2008 with the purchase of a superzoom digital, then really into it with a K1000 in January 2009.

It has, thus, been about 3 years since I really got into it.

In that time, my photos have gotten much better, sometimes approaching the level of "art."

I also progressed from digital, to 35mm, to Digital SLR, to medium format, now to 4x5.

Not bad for someone who didn't know an F/stop from a bus stop in 2008 😎

 

[Dave Jarosz]

34 years.........

34 years.........

When I got my first job out of college, I purchased a Pentax MX, wish I still had it. Started shooting band photos, one thing led to another, lost my day job and my hobby just got out of control. Have been an advertising photog for 28 years..........http://www.bobdave.com www.davelizjarosz.com

 

[pdexposures]

When I was 17 in high school was where I started. So 8 years, which is nothing compared to most of you!

 

[lcpr]

4 years, I started when I was about 16.

 

[FlyingLotus]

Ive been shooting film since i was 15. It has been a fun journey so far.

 

[Darthfeeble]

I'm still waiting to start........ S

 

[jsrockit]

Since June 1990. However, I took off about 10 years in the middle somewhere.