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

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

  • < 1 year

    Votes: 13 2.1%

  • 1 year +

    Votes: 15 2.4%

  • 2 years +

    Votes: 13 2.1%

  • 3 years +

    Votes: 36 5.8%

  • 5 years +

    Votes: 69 11.1%

  • 10 years +

    Votes: 44 7.1%

  • 15 years +

    Votes: 31 5.0%

  • 20 years +

    Votes: 38 6.1%

  • 25 years +

    Votes: 25 4.0%

  • 30 years +

    Votes: 127 20.4%

  • 40 years +

    Votes: 205 33.0%

  • I don't do photography, I just like the shiny cameras.

    Votes: 6 1.0%
  • Total voters
    622
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.
 
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.
 
Wow, over 50% of voters have been doing photography for over 30 years.

We are a bunch of old fogies!
 
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.
 
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
 
FrankS said:
Wow, over 50% of voters have been doing photography for over 30 years.

We are a bunch of old fogies!
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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.
 
:D:DMe I am doing thing more than 15yers. Plus. I am still learning. Now I am on the curve of Digital. This is non ending!!
 
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.
 
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."
 
miatab said:
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."
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Hmmmm... all shutters needs CLA after some decades..:D
 
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 :cool:
 
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