On Jan 25, 2010, at 1:44 AM, Derby Chang wrote:
Friend-shooter of mind asked me today, when did it click for you? When did you know photography was the game to be in? Oddly, unlike a lot of my past history, I could pinpoint exactly the moment
It's funny, I don't think I ever had one of those defining moments. I don't even know if I consider it *THE* game.
It is, however, something that I've enjoyed ever since Dad taught me how to use his Spotmatic II in '73 (I was 12), and I had a blast playing in the darkroom over the next 10 years.
I remember taking my FZ20 to burning man in '06 and having a blast staying up all night taking photos most of that week. That was the week that I really started to learn digital. I was frustrated with the controls, upgraded to an fz50, which I loved apart from the poor low light capability. When that was stolen I decided to get a cheap DSLR to last me a couple of years until I could afford something decent. All of a sudden I realized that I was spending a lot of time with it, and averaging about 100 frames a day. In large part because digital is so cheap to shoot that I can afford to experiment and bracket in 4 dimensions to try to learn what works in each situation.
So, it wasn't so much "the moment it clicked" as slowly realizing that I spend way too much time, money and effort on photography.
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