FrankS
Registered User
You know, when you were just starting out in photography. It would be interesting to see how much we have grown, and if there is any recognizable similarity to your current photography.
Post some of your early images here
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Richard G
Veteran
Fantastic idea. I will get out the scanner.
This is the one from five years ago, on a bike ride, that set me off on exploring architectural shapes.
Shrine of Remembrance by Richard GM2, on Flickr
This is the one from five years ago, on a bike ride, that set me off on exploring architectural shapes.
Shrine of Remembrance by Richard GM2, on Flickr
redisburning
Well-known
oldest shot I have on my flickr, from nearly 3 years ago.
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
and how about this one, first picture I remember taking in Boston/Cambridge when I moved there about 10 days later:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
my first black and white:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
first digital:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
first time using a rangefinder, also the first time I developed film myself:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
first slide film:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
first time using a Leica:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
and my first shot on large format:
rescan by redisburning, on Flickr
I think those are most of the major milestones. the images I make in 5 years would still be early in the process for some of our storied vets around here!
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
and how about this one, first picture I remember taking in Boston/Cambridge when I moved there about 10 days later:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
my first black and white:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
first digital:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
first time using a rangefinder, also the first time I developed film myself:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
first slide film:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
first time using a Leica:
Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
and my first shot on large format:
rescan by redisburning, on Flickr
I think those are most of the major milestones. the images I make in 5 years would still be early in the process for some of our storied vets around here!
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
My first film photos were taken with a Fed 2 (those were the days) and were almost all of tree stumps?
The other shots on the roll were victims of forgetting to remove the lens cap! 😀
I'll go looking later!
The other shots on the roll were victims of forgetting to remove the lens cap! 😀
I'll go looking later!
sreed2006
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Bought the Olympus OM-1MD with a 50/1.4 in 1979 from JCPenney, my first real camera.
I probably had not shot 20 rolls yet, when two friends and I went to climb this volcano in Mexico: Citlaltepl, also called Pico de Orizaba. I stood tip-toe on a rock to get this composition. In all the years since then I have not taken a picture I liked more than this one.
citlalteptl3.jpg by sreed2006, on Flickr
One friend and I made it to the top two days later. The other friend got altitude sickness and had to stay at a lower camp. When I showed all the pictures from the trip to my girlfriend, she was visibly upset that I spent so much money on the trip and none on her. It was all downhill after that. But I still have the picture. 🙂
I probably had not shot 20 rolls yet, when two friends and I went to climb this volcano in Mexico: Citlaltepl, also called Pico de Orizaba. I stood tip-toe on a rock to get this composition. In all the years since then I have not taken a picture I liked more than this one.
citlalteptl3.jpg by sreed2006, on Flickr
One friend and I made it to the top two days later. The other friend got altitude sickness and had to stay at a lower camp. When I showed all the pictures from the trip to my girlfriend, she was visibly upset that I spent so much money on the trip and none on her. It was all downhill after that. But I still have the picture. 🙂
furbs
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angelog
formerly agianelo
I bought a Canon AE-1 in 1979 for a trip to Oregon:
angelog
formerly agianelo
I wish I'd have known about Kodachrome back then:
lonemantis
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This is from a school exchange I did to New Zealand back in 2006, shot on a Nikon Coolpix E3200 - my only camera for several years. We climbed down the cliff on the left to this secluded black sand beach, and ate oysters we found in the nearby caves for dinner.
It's one of the first photos I remember being really proud of, although hindered by the camera's limited quality. I'd really love to go back some day and recreate the shot on my Mamiya 7 and Velvia!
It's one of the first photos I remember being really proud of, although hindered by the camera's limited quality. I'd really love to go back some day and recreate the shot on my Mamiya 7 and Velvia!
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Metro station
Metro station
Contax 137 MD + Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7 T*
I guess this counts as "early". It was from my return trip by motorcycle from New York to California in Fall of 1984, a stopover in Washinton DC to visit a friend. I'd purchased the Contax 137 MD and 50mm f/1.7 lens while in New York while I stayed there (2 months) and worked as day labor in construction to fund my trip back. Lovely camera and lens; I had sold the Rollei 35 Tessar I'd carried on the east-bound trip to my old friend as I missed having an SLR to shoot with, and all my Nikon gear was in storage at a friend's place in California.
Hmm ... 1984 was about twenty years after the first camera I bought myself, a Minolta 16-Ps when I was about 9-10 years old. So it's 'early' but not 'first' ... I just scanned this slide recently with the Coolscan 9000ED.
;-)
Ah, the years fly. I remember that trip as if it was yesterday.
G
Metro station
Contax 137 MD + Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7 T*
I guess this counts as "early". It was from my return trip by motorcycle from New York to California in Fall of 1984, a stopover in Washinton DC to visit a friend. I'd purchased the Contax 137 MD and 50mm f/1.7 lens while in New York while I stayed there (2 months) and worked as day labor in construction to fund my trip back. Lovely camera and lens; I had sold the Rollei 35 Tessar I'd carried on the east-bound trip to my old friend as I missed having an SLR to shoot with, and all my Nikon gear was in storage at a friend's place in California.
Hmm ... 1984 was about twenty years after the first camera I bought myself, a Minolta 16-Ps when I was about 9-10 years old. So it's 'early' but not 'first' ... I just scanned this slide recently with the Coolscan 9000ED.
;-)
Ah, the years fly. I remember that trip as if it was yesterday.
G
Bob Michaels
nobody special
Around 1980 I got frustrated with my photography, sold my enlarger and all camera gear. I also threw away many years of negatives and prints. The only thing that remains is this print which my sister still has hanging on her wall. It was the crowd in front of Boot Hill Saloon during Bike Week in Daytona in 1973.
ricnak
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Here are some of my early efforts. I must have been about 9 years old using my a Kodak Instamatic 20 camera. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and used it for 8 years. Nearly 40 years later, I still do focus tests on my toes.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
I made all of these photos when I was in high school in the early 1990s!
Dick Sutton was a Native American who used to be a regular at the Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne.
My grandpa, John Westerfield.
Marilyn Krick was an old photographer in my neighborhood when I was a kid. I used to spend a lot of time talking to her. She never married or had children, so her dog, Rosie, was her 'baby'.
NaTosha Jones was a friend in high school. She's a doctor now.
Don Goss was my photo teacher at Elmurst High School in Fort Wayne. He graduated from Elmhurst in 1949, and returned there to teach after earning his masters degree. My parents took art classes from him in the 1960s, and he was Peter and David Turnley's photo teacher there in the 1970s. He retired a couple years ago after Fort Wayne Community Schools closed the school as a budget cutting measure. He was in his early 80s, and was not ready to retire!
Dick Sutton was a Native American who used to be a regular at the Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne.
My grandpa, John Westerfield.
Marilyn Krick was an old photographer in my neighborhood when I was a kid. I used to spend a lot of time talking to her. She never married or had children, so her dog, Rosie, was her 'baby'.
NaTosha Jones was a friend in high school. She's a doctor now.
Don Goss was my photo teacher at Elmurst High School in Fort Wayne. He graduated from Elmhurst in 1949, and returned there to teach after earning his masters degree. My parents took art classes from him in the 1960s, and he was Peter and David Turnley's photo teacher there in the 1970s. He retired a couple years ago after Fort Wayne Community Schools closed the school as a budget cutting measure. He was in his early 80s, and was not ready to retire!
back alley
IMAGES
jeez frank...all my early stuff is on film and in prints...all tucked away in the basement in big rubbermaid totes...not easy to access like my digital stuff on the computer and at the ready...
2WK
Rangefinder User
Cool shot!!
Around 1980 I got frustrated with my photography, sold my enlarger and all camera gear. I also threw away many years of negatives and prints. The only thing that remains is this print which my sister still has hanging on her wall. It was the crowd in front of Boot Hill Saloon during Bike Week in Daytona in 1973.
photony texas
Light Sensitive
My First ever Rangefinder Double Exposure
May 2009
May 2009
c.poulton
Well-known
Early photo of my father - must have been taken in the early 80's, 1981, or 82 with my first SLR, a Zenit TTL. Not sure what film but I mainly shot on slide back then, possibly Kodachrome?
Prince_of_Wales by Christian Poulton, on Flickr
Prince_of_Wales by Christian Poulton, on Flickr
erikhaugsby
killer of threads
This has been the one enduring image from my pre-photojournalism years (<2006). Paris, Aug. 2006, with the Leica M2 and 50/2 DR that I still carry.
daveleo
what?
This was back when I discovered colored filters and went wild with them on color slide film . . guess you would call this "extreme pre-processing " . . .
petronius
Veteran
Two from 1979; Porst Reflex FX3, 50/135mm
1980, Nikon FM/500mm
1980, Nikon FM/500mm
