Post some of your early images here

[Dralowid]

Messing around with reticulation (?) as a student in the mid '60s.


AHM1 by dralowid, on Flickr

 

[furbs]

Simon, amazing shots....

My first photo in print, 6 years ago. I had gotten a DSLR a year prior after not taking any photos for 7 years.


SPAZZZ ATTACK! by ffurbss, on Flickr

 

[lynnb]

The first picture I ever took where I tried to do something creative. Brownie C, Verichrome Pan 620, about 1962 or '63. Taken at my local beach when I was about 7.

by lynnb on flickr

 

[lynnb]

first picture taken with a camera I bought with my own money. Looking out my bedroom window, 1966. Kodak Instamatic 126, Kodak colour print film.

by lynnb on flickr

 

[lynnb]

one of my first head shots, a girl in my local surf club. 1978. OM-1, Kodachrome 25.

 

[Bingley]

Richardson Bay, taken probably around 1970:


Richardson Bay by bingley0522, on Flickr

 

[Bingley]

Old Alaska Packers Association cannery, Bristol Bay, Alaska, taken in the summer of 1971:


Old APA Cannery, Bristol Bay by bingley0522, on Flickr

 

[sevres_babylone]

Both from 1976, with my OM-1 I shared with my brother. Bought it in August or September 1975. The dancing picture was from St. Jean Baptiste day June 1976 (I think; I traveled outside of North America in 1977-1978, and I think this was before). The donut shop was taken on a car-trip to Boston. 1976 from the bicentennial garbage can. Can't remember if I had the 75-150 zoom yet. If not, then then they both were with the 50mm.

Johnny Unitas' donuts plus + por sevres-babylone, en Flickr

 

[back alley]

first shot i posted on flickr...2005 i think...

 

[bgetty]

This one was taken 2 years later, still at university. My old girlfriend walking away with her new boyfriend that I happened upon while walking in a snowstorm, still depressed over the breakup. They didn't notice me. This image really got me hooked into photography.

wow! that's a potent one. did you exchange words while passing at all?

awesome thread.

 

[grapejohnson]

first picture i ever took and liked, on my first "real" camera, a mamiya nc1000, second or third roll i ever shot

possum by scottkessler, on Flickr

first roll of b&w (bw400 cn) on same nc1000
this was the picture that solidified my new-found passion for photography, it was probably my tenth or eleventh roll of film

jeremy by scottkessler, on Flickr

first picture i ever printed, from the second roll i ever developed at home (bessa r3a, j8, tmax 3200)

pappy boots by scottkessler, on Flickr

one more from the same

twiggy by scottkessler, on Flickr

and finally first roll of self developed c41:
bessa r3a, cv 40 1.4, fuji superia 400

yers truly by scottkessler, on Flickr

still learning a lot, only a year and a half in

 

[sepiareverb]

1982:

2012:


I'm back shooting the same sort of stuff, after a long detour through 8x10 still life work.

both 2000:

 

[daveleo]

One of the very first shots I made using "balanced fill-flash". Konica Hexar AF and a metz flash.
I was truly amazed at the time.

(The boys up front are now over 6' tall.)

 

[Chris101]

Rubber cement and blue toner:

 

[tomtofa]

Back in the mid to late 70s I worked as a photojournalist, and when I wasn't working I wandered around taking pics that reflected my perhaps skewed view of the time. A few:

 

[tomtofa]

Then I discovered color and went random with that; mostly Kodachrome and Ektachrome - early 80s:

 

[tomtofa]

Simon, I'm not sure it's fair that you're also so good in color . . .

2008.

 

[jwc57]

From the very first roll of film, first time ever I used a camera. It was our first photography assignment for class. I was a student at Chabot in Hayward. Tri-X, Chinon CS, 50mm. This is the only strip left, I think five frames. Taken in Livermore California, 1976.

Instead of buying sleeves, I just stuck negatives in books. I felt that was safe since I never got rid of books. Unfortunately, my wife and I divorced and she had a yard sale of all my stuff. Fortunately, I had taken my railroad books with me and this negative was tucked in one of those books. There was also a couple of negatives from the same class taken with a TLR.

Old Mines Rd, 1977. Probably a Yashica or Mamiya TLR. (It was a loaner from Chabot after the Chinon CS was stolen from the classroom).

 

[mfogiel]

One of the first photos of my wife. She was seventeen then. Taken with my father's Rolleiflex 3,5F and ORWO film.


M. by mfogiel, on Flickr

One of first portraits. This guy was a painter, I believe. Taken in 1974, with Pentacon Six and Biometar 80.


A. by mfogiel, on Flickr

This is my long time Italian friend. Taken in 1975 in Atlantic College. Pentacon Six with Biometar 120 on Panatomic X - what a film !


B.B. by mfogiel, on Flickr

 

[peterm1]

Not much really........taken in Budapest in 1997 with what was probably my first really serious SLR - a Nikon F801s.


Scan25r by yoyomaoz, on Flickr