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07/15/2003 12:16:06 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by Koriyama:
I share a lot in common with Jacko (not his talent, unfortunately). This week sees my 1st photography birthday. I moved to a beautiful north Japanese town where the scenery is magnificent. I felt that it would be a disgrace to leave here in a few years with no momentos of the area in photograph form. So, I decided to take up photography. However, since then, my interest has deepened so much that I hardly go outdoors to shoot. I really need to do that, too, but with a small baby, finding the time is difficult right now. |
I really wish you could get out a little every now and then. I'd love to see some landscape and faces from Northern Japan.
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07/15/2003 12:42:49 AM · #27 |
| Got a camera for a birthday last year, went to Glacier National Park with it, and have since been fairly pleased with what gets stuck inside of it enough to keep it up. |
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07/15/2003 12:48:10 AM · #28 |
Before I started photography in 2001, I hated cameras and would not take any to the many places I travelled to as a child. Cameras were a burden, and made you look like a tourist taking pointless pictures you'd put in an album that no one would care for (at least as I saw it)
At my work, someone needed to enroll in a basic photography course at a local college and asked me if I wanted to come along, gave me the outline and info, and that's when I first thought about trying to take pictures in an artistic fashion. I said "sure why not", and it skyrocketed from that one course. I absorbed photography information at breakneck speeds :)
Unlike the other various obsessions I've had in the past, photography is a hobby that, with time, keeps growing stronger and stronger as time goes by... don't think I'll give it up anytime soon :) |
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07/15/2003 12:55:26 AM · #29 |
how did i learn at first? backwards.
i grew up with a nikon fm body and a nikon series e 50 mm f/1.8 (to f/22) pointed at me. my mother is a photographer, or tries to be. snapshots, really. but the best damn snapshots of any family we knew.
i always drew. but i started to get into digital abstract art, and after a while using portions of other people's photos and stuff i could fit in my scanner stopped being enough, and i got a very crappy digital camera. which actually directed my style in a more simplistic way. i started to find the photography aspect more interesting than anything i could do to the images afterwards.
so i decided to take a photography class.
now i own and use on a regular basis a nikon fm2/n (with a replaced shutter, and a nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens), which is why i haven't been too active here. cause i need a better digital camera. but i'm currently looking for another manual focus lens, not a digital camera, so i suspect i won't be around here too much in the competitions.
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07/15/2003 01:28:44 AM · #30 |
Dear Mavrik,
You understand our pain! We thought the only way to get our parents attention was to join DPC ourselves, and to happily submit to being models all the time, and it's worked to some degree, but Mom kept muttering something about having to get a ribbon, and Dad kept trying all these bizarre and elaborate shots to fool the voters into giving him high scores. We hoped things would calm down after Mom got 2nd, but it's worse! Now they think they both have to have a ribbon in the same challenge! Our lives are a nightmare! DPC is bad and evil! We're hungry and no one ever puts us to bed!
Love,
Jeni, Lauren, Lottie and Owen
Message edited by author 2003-07-15 01:29:00. |
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07/15/2003 01:33:41 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by sagestudio:
Dear Mavrik,
You understand our pain! We thought the only way to get our parents attention was to join DPC ourselves, and to happily submit to being models all the time, and it's worked to some degree, but Mom kept muttering something about having to get a ribbon, and Dad kept trying all these bizarre and elaborate shots to fool the voters into giving him high scores. We hoped things would calm down after Mom got 2nd, but it's worse! Now they think they both have to have a ribbon in the same challenge! Our lives are a nightmare! DPC is bad and evil! We're hungry and no one ever puts us to bed!
Love,
Jeni, Lauren, Lottie and Owen |
LOL
I'm sure my boyfriend feels your pain as well as all my unwitting model/ friends. maybe there should be a secton of the site called DPC-anonn
My PIX
Message edited by author 2003-07-15 01:34:12.
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07/15/2003 01:34:32 AM · #32 |
Dear Jeni, Lauren, Lottie and Owen,
Yes, some of us understand your pain. My mom and dad weren't into photography - they are into travelling. Needless to say I've seen Maine, Florida, California, Washington, and every state in between. Road trips were so boring I could tell you the state of each license plate we'd seen along the way, as well as tell you exactly how many times my sister had snored in the last hour. My mom was always muttering something about "going too fast" and my dad always talked about "too slow, gotta hurry." I'm not sure how fast we were going, but it always took foreverandaday to get there.
I am looking forward to the day both your mom and dad ribbon in the same challenge, not to mention YOUR first ribbons (and mine!)
*hands the kids some food, tucks them in and says a bedtime story in Korean or something*
M
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07/15/2003 01:35:26 AM · #33 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
I wonder how Isaac, Carsten's kids and the Sidwell kids will remember their start in photography....
"well, my parents were obsessed. Eventually if we wanted anything, we had to say "dpc I need dpc milkmoney dpc for tomorrow, mom dpc."
Or maybe OSS's kid "I was the most often seen model on dpc (with the possible exception of arnit's girl). Then along came carsten and he had TWINS to use - how fair is that? So mom decided to shoot me two times as much. Those were the days."
ROTFLMAO!!!!
All the kids' stories will end the same. "Finally I pried the camera out of my parents hands and haven't given it back. I only took pictures so they would stop!"
(I'm just poking fun, hopefully everyone understands lol)
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07/15/2003 01:41:53 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
*hands the kids some food, tucks them in and says a bedtime story in Korean or something*
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Hey Mavrik, can we move in with you?
JLLO |
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07/15/2003 02:19:47 AM · #35 |
:D
*hides the dpc screen*
Suuuuuuure.
(not sure that's any better, but you're welcome to take your chances!)
@frisca
HELP
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07/15/2003 02:57:00 AM · #36 |
are they still willing to model? ;) Can I pay them in lollipops?
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07/15/2003 03:01:59 AM · #37 |
oh.. and as for how I first learned...I would like to say it was when my father was doing photography and videography professionally during a particularly bad economic spell in the early 80s (he was an engineer by training, but started his own business doing photography and videography when he lost his job), but life just isn't that picturesque for me. I learned what I know from mavrik, followed him here and then sponged off the collective knowledge here while fiddling with my point and shoot. :) And I like jacko's idea of bigger and better stuff, but it has been drilled into me that its not the camera...its not the camera..its not the camera. ;)
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07/15/2003 03:27:34 AM · #38 |
| back in Michigan, they started a photography class the same year I started high school. It was supposed to be for Juniors/Seniors, but the nice teacher let me in anyway. It just stuck. I keep coming back to it. |
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07/15/2003 05:00:33 AM · #39 |
DPC was definitely my first attempt at not-snapshot photography. I had taken hundreds of photos with my Poloroid PDC-640. Everyone thought that was so cool, to have a digital camera. Dec. 2001 I bought an Olympus C3000. My dad has an olympus C2020 and was real happy on how adjustable everything was. At that point I was still snapshooting. We went to Canada on our yearly adventure out there and I had somehow captured one of my sons being exceptionally cute. I tried entering it in a couple contests. Nothing happened. I stumbled onto DPC searching and have been hooked since. Anything I know about photography I've learned here. It's really been great. I may have found my niche, or at least transformed it into a real hobby.
That's my abridged story - Bob
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07/15/2003 05:15:42 AM · #40 |
| ........stumbled across a cache of Life Magazine (issues from 1938 through 1955) at the age of ten...... |
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07/15/2003 07:28:35 AM · #41 |
I studied photography at a private college in Melbourne, my interest in photography wasn't huge but I didn't know what else to do after I left school, and my marks sucked so I wasn't going to university. Got an old nikkormat as my first camera, which I'm sure I still have somewhere. I assisted for a few years, worked in and out of different photography jobs before getting lost in the IT world for the past 12 years.
Eventually the call to return to photography hit me about 12 months ago, didn't really make the move until about 3 months ago. Bought a Canon 10D and am slowly getting the feel back again. |
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07/15/2003 01:53:54 PM · #42 |
I had a Minolta SLR with a 50mm lens when I was a lot younger, this taught me about composition, depth of field, etc.
A few years ago however, I started getting into CGI and 3d modelling. This REALLY taught me to look at light and texture. Creating the model is only a small part of the creation, you then have to decide how you light it and what kind of material properties it will have. I like to think that this has now carried over into my photography!
I think every photographer should try some 3d CGI modelling! |
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