Re: When did it click
The first click was an old kodak box camera which I tried to connect to a toy microscope. It failed completely because I didn't know how to operate the tools/toys. The failure was the trigger to do better and a Beirette was the second click. The little camera exposed lots of Agfa CT-18 slide films. Around age 14, I got a russian Zenith SLR and got really hooked. A darkroom followed and the addiction was complete. When I got more money a Miranda SLR was next which was quickly dumped for a Pentax MX. The darkroom didn't survive the move to a new house and photography slowly degraded to family snapshots processed by the local drugstore. Digital was the latest and loudest click for me. Toine On 25 January 2010 10:44, 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 > > I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. > Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long > since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust > my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected > because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the > beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable > history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which > she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot > made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let > you take their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm > > So.when did it first click for you? > > D > > > -- > > der...@iinet.net.au > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: When did it click
> On 1/25/2010 11:44 AM, Derby Chang wrote: >> > So.when did it first click for you? > My Dad had a camera for as long as I can remember. Occasional slide shows of family trips were part of our growing up. When I was 14 I got a Kodak 8mm movie camera, my brother got an Argus C-3, my Mom had a Rollie, my Dad had some kind of Kodak 35mm. Three years later I was going to spend the summer in Central America, didn't want to lug the movie camera, went to a local camera store and bought a zone-focus Kodak for $10. Used that for 5-6 years, then my 1st wife and I went on an extended camping trip in the west. Hiking on a side trail within Mesa Verde National Park, we came upon a desert bighorn coming our way. We stepped off the trail to let him pass. I took several pictures. Got home, got all of the slides processed. Most were crap. In particular the bighorn shots were out of focus, etc. "If I ever have such an opportunity again, I will have a decent camera with me!" Over the following year I was reading how-to photo books, had a Nikkormat, was using the campus photoclub facilities to develop my film, do my own printing, etc. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: When did it click
On 1/25/2010 11:44 AM, Derby Chang wrote: So.when did it first click for you? When I was a kid, one of my mother's uncles used to do the photography. It was usually rather long process whereas he would position me, take readings (now I realize it was a light meter), fiddle with his camera (to the best of my memory it was one of the Soviet Leica clones) and finally take a picture. Then of course, we all had to wait until the processing was done etc. But honestly, I am a geek, so that when my parents bought me the simplest camera (I think it was Smena 8m) I fiddled with it as a geek-to-be. Then after the school came Zenit ET and the rest is history. I cannot recall a moment when it clicked and I knew that I wanted to take pictures purposefully. I kind of slid along the way. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:52:20 -0600 Christine Aguila wrote: > From: "Derby Chang" > > > > So.when did it first click for you? Seems I have been hooked on taking pictures as long as i have been a drunk. given I was a point of amusement as a drunken toddler that is a fair while. there are pictures of me with a camera before I was two and many pictures of knees and the like. the aha moment was when I was in jr high and got to shoot a roll and process and print it all in one day. that drove the science and technology behind the art home. -- "Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: When did it click
- Original Message - From: "Derby Chang" So.when did it first click for you? My dad shot with a Minolta & took a lot of slides of family vacations. Family slide shows are some of my favorite family memories, and issues of Life and Time magazine were always about the house. I enjoyed looking at the pictures. I begged for a camera and received an instamatic of some sort, but was horrified at my pictures. They didn't match what I envisioned in my head or the pictures that I saw in magazines. But with the MX, I took Photography 101 in college; I became hooked, and it's remained an interest off and on from there. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: When did it click
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:44 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 > > I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. > Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long > since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust > my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected > because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the > beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable > history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which > she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot > made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let > you take their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm > > So.when did it first click for you? Honestly, I don't think it every "clicked", it evolved, and while I can look to many moments when that evolution sped up somewhat, I don't think I ever had one single epiphany. Dad was an avid amateur, shooting with a Yashica A tlr. Got my first camera, a Kodak Starflash Brownie at about 7, first 35mm rangefinder at about 13, first slr at about 16. My first photographer/hero was Margaret Bourke-White; I picked up a photobook of hers at a library when I was about 11 and was enthralled. In high school we had bound volumes of old Life magazines from the first issue in 1936 to the late 50's or early 60's and I spent more time looking at those than doing schoolwork. Then I discovered blur... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I got hold of my dad's Petri 7s when I was three and the fascination never ceased... On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:44 PM, 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 > > I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. > Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long > since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust > my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected > because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the > beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable > history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which > she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot > made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let > you take their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm > > So.when did it first click for you? > > D > > > -- > > der...@iinet.net.au > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: When did it click
Cotty wrote: Okay I'll bite. Given a no-name twin lens reflex when I was 9 by a friend of the family to photograph a sea voyage between Liverpool and Montreal that I made with my mother and grandmother and a sister to rejoin my father and other sister in California. (Montreal to Vancouver by train). Later used my mum's Instamatic a lot. Then I wandered the streets of Southport (UK) carrying my dad's 8mm movie camera, filming anything that moved. I was 16. Still am. I think this is endlessly fascinating, how first impressions shape how you are today. Not surprising, just fascinating. D -- der...@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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John Poirier wrote: Hi. I've subscribed to this group since the late '90s but have been active only sporadically. I check in to see what's happening quite often, though. Now I'm an empty nester, hoping to have more time to participate. This will serve nicely as a re-introduction. I got seriously interested in photography in 1971 when I spent the first of two summers on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. I bought a Taron rangefinder to record the experience. Greatly enjoyed learning to use it. By the end of that summer I had decided to live in the North and to be a photographer.. By 1975 I was living in the Yukon and working hard at teaching myself photography. In 1979 I landed my first full-time photographic job at a newspaper in Alberta. After two years I went North again, to the Northwest Territories, and from 1986 to 2006 was the photographer at a museum in Yellowknife. These days I'm retired in British Columbia, shooting and selling some fine art work. I've also gone back to my roots, playing with screw mount and early K mount gear shooting bulk loaded black and white. My web site (whcih I don't update often enough) is: www.johnpoirier.ca Cheers John Poirier Now that is one of the loveliest galleries I've seen in a while. Highly gorgeous D -- der...@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Hi. I've subscribed to this group since the late '90s but have been active only sporadically. I check in to see what's happening quite often, though. Now I'm an empty nester, hoping to have more time to participate. This will serve nicely as a re-introduction. I got seriously interested in photography in 1971 when I spent the first of two summers on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. I bought a Taron rangefinder to record the experience. Greatly enjoyed learning to use it. By the end of that summer I had decided to live in the North and to be a photographer.. By 1975 I was living in the Yukon and working hard at teaching myself photography. In 1979 I landed my first full-time photographic job at a newspaper in Alberta. After two years I went North again, to the Northwest Territories, and from 1986 to 2006 was the photographer at a museum in Yellowknife. These days I'm retired in British Columbia, shooting and selling some fine art work. I've also gone back to my roots, playing with screw mount and early K mount gear shooting bulk loaded black and white. My web site (whcih I don't update often enough) is: www.johnpoirier.ca Cheers John Poirier - Original Message - From: "Derby Chang" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:44 AM Subject: When did it click 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 I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let you take their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm So.when did it first click for you? D -- der...@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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For me it didn't happen until I was due to move overseas for a couple of years (from the UK to St. Helena) and realised it might be a good idea to buy a camera for the trip. So I bought a second-hand Voigtlander Vito CD for GBP20, plus a little bulb flash. Shot only Kodachromes for a while, then a friend who was very much into photography suggested I try some B&W (the island store had run out of colour film!), and showed me how to D&P. I think I might have got hooked on hypo, as then I had to get a better camera, so ordered an SV through a friend travelling to Singapore. After that, there was no hope for me. John in Brisbane -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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>> Given a no-name twin lens reflex when I was 9 by a friend of the family >> to photograph a sea voyage between Liverpool and Montreal that I made > >No planes back then eh. we were in 4th class (you swim behind the ship). -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I think it happened when I was 11. My father was an eager amateur and my mothers mother was a professional photographer before WWII, and after a holiday where I had used an Instamatic my father stopped at one of my pictures and told me why the composition was good. After a few more comments like that I realized that this was something I enjoyed (and did better than my brothers). I got an Olympus 35RC at 14 and got the school darkroom for myself four hours a week the next year. At 16 I got a Pentax ME and joined a club, and from there it has been my main hobby. DagT Den 25. jan. 2010 kl. 10.44 skrev Derby Chang: > > 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 > > I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. Bored, > I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long since > stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust my > body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected > because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the > beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable > history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which she > did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot made me > think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let you take > their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm > > So.when did it first click for you? > > D > > > -- > > der...@iinet.net.au > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My Dad always seemed to have a camera and we took lots of long summer vacations to exotic places like Canada. He mostly shot on a Brownie Hawkeye and he got me one just like his when I was around 8 (1968). I remember always looking at the photos he took when he was in the Navy on a Mediterranean cruise before I was born. In Junior High I took Photography as an elective and my Dad gave me some model of Kodak Bantam with 828 film, lens on a pop-out bellows, that he had used overseas. That was a big step up from a Brownie, with full manual control of aperture and shutter speed. Around 1983 I took a winter vacation and borrowed a friend's K1000. It was the first time I'd used an SLR, and I was amazed with the results (had been using 110 mostly). Then before my son was born I walked into a Waxman's camera store in downtown Denver in 1990 and a salesman recognized me from our senior year in high school. I was looking to purchase a 35mm SLR. He showed me a used MX and 50mm lens for $50. At the same time he offered to sell me 28, 135, and 200mm Pentax lenses with cases for another $75. So I walked out with an MX and four lenses for $125. I always liked photography, but it was that purchase of the MX and lenses that really got me serious about it. Tom On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:44 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 > > I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. > Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long > since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust > my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected > because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the > beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable > history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which > she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot > made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let > you take their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm > > So.when did it first click for you? > > D > > > -- > > der...@iinet.net.au > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I can't say exactly when it clicked for me, but I have always had a fascination with photographs. As a small child, on a boring afternoon (usually a rainy one), I would drag out the boxes of family photos and spend hours looking through them. My first camera was a P.O.S. plastic fantastic 110 film camera that came in a show bag. DS 2010/1/25 Derby Chang : > > 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 > > I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. > Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long > since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust > my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected > because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the > beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable > history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which > she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot > made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let > you take their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm > > So.when did it first click for you? > > D -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Cotty wrote: > Okay I'll bite. > > Given a no-name twin lens reflex when I was 9 by a friend of the family > to photograph a sea voyage between Liverpool and Montreal that I made No planes back then eh. Dave > with my mother and grandmother and a sister to rejoin my father and > other sister in California. (Montreal to Vancouver by train). Later used > my mum's Instamatic a lot. Then I wandered the streets of Southport (UK) > carrying my dad's 8mm movie camera, filming anything that moved. I was > 16. Still am. > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > -- http://www.cottysnaps.com > _ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 25/01/2010, 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 I can't say when it was for me, there were always cameras around from as far back as I can remember. I still have my dad's old Retinette which made the majority of pics of my brothers and I as kids. I remember that the interest was acknowledged as I was given a camera (Kodak Instamatic) as gift but I guess it really took off when I found an old Argus fixed focus TLR which shot 620 film. I shot Pentax at school in the Photographic club (we had a decent darkroom) but I didn't own any decent SLR gear until my late teens when I bought a SuperA and then a 67 and then an LX and it goes on. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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> Bought my first camera at the age of ten. It was a little box camera that > took 610 film. I paid $2 for it. Those were 1958 dollars, so it would > probably cost around $15 today. I was fascinated by the way it could stop > motion and how the light and shadows played on film. I also started playing > in the darkroom soon thereafter, processing film and making contact prints. > Still have a few pics I shot with my first camera. Paul > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > -- http://www.cottysnaps.com > _ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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From: Derby Chang 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 I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let you take their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm So.when did it first click for you? I can't really say when. It was somewhere between 1959 and 2004. My first camera was an old Kodak Brownie that had belonged to my grandmother. She died just before I turned 10. She was a studio photographer back in the 1920s, but lost her studio in the depression. I've been taking photos off and on ever since. I guess "it clicked" for me that I could pursue photography as a profession during my Iraq deployment in 2004. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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> -Original Message- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On > Behalf Of Cotty > [...] > I was 16. Still am. M! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Okay I'll bite. Given a no-name twin lens reflex when I was 9 by a friend of the family to photograph a sea voyage between Liverpool and Montreal that I made with my mother and grandmother and a sister to rejoin my father and other sister in California. (Montreal to Vancouver by train). Later used my mum's Instamatic a lot. Then I wandered the streets of Southport (UK) carrying my dad's 8mm movie camera, filming anything that moved. I was 16. Still am. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: When did it click
On Mon, 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 Dad always had a camera, first a Baldini, then a Pentax. I shot a bit as a kid, then when I went to university I became active on the student paper. We shot on Tri-X (I have no recollection of what the cameras were) and had a darkroom, and one week I got to take one of my own shots (of a new mainframe computer the University had bought) and recompose it on our clunky enlarger - ah, those darkroom smells - and then see it in the paper; then I knew. -T -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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> > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm > > So.when did it first click for you? > I used to watch the Vietnam war on TV and look at the pictures in the papers when I was a kid. The people I admired were the reporters, cameramen and photographers. I was given a camera for my 12th or 13th birthday, some sort of Instamatic. I had no idea why my pictures were all rubbish, but I persisted, and learned by trying to imitate photographers I admired. Not having a war of my own to photograph, I had to try and imitate Cartier-Bresson's pictures taken in the streets. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:34 AM, William Robb wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Derby Chang" > Subject: When did it click > > > >> So.when did it first click for you? About the age of 11 or 12. Dad was into photography and passed down a Kodak box camera for me to try. I wandered around my Grandmothers home in Bolton, took a bit of shots. It was not until Dad and I went to the dark room did it click, when i saw the negs and a final product. Hooked after that. Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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- Original Message - From: "Derby Chang" Subject: When did it click So.when did it first click for you? I think I was about 8. My parents had taken me along with them on a trip to Cypress Hills (sadly thats not in Cypress) and my dad wanted a picture of the two of them on Bald Butte (apparently the highest point of land between the Laurentians and the Rockies in Canada). Anyway, dad handed me his camera, and the first thing I noticed was that he had misread the light meter, so there I was taking a light reading with his handheld meter and setting the camera correctly before I took the picture. It was another 5 years before I was able to finagle a darkroom. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
