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What triggered your interest in photography?
Do you know what triggered your interest in photography? I can remember my grandfather taking a picture of us in his garden with a box brownie when I was about 5 years old and thinking what is that box and how does it work. Do others have a recollection of what started their interest?
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I used to look through a shoebox of family photographs, most taken by my Dad who had printed them in the shed in the yard. I thought they were great. Despite selling all his kit when we moved he still took the odd photograph when he bought a Polaroid camera.
After he died when I was 11 I found his photographs gave me a connection with him. I was often told how he wanted to be a professional but family commitments had made that imposible, and as I got older I thought I would give it a try and quickly got hooked the rest as they say is history. Neil Last edited by Neil Smith; 19th August 2011 at 09:21 PM. |
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Seeing a book of photographs by Bill Brandt did it for me. There was one picture in particular,of a bird's nest with eggs, and - I think- a dark sky that just had everything....and I thought "I've just got to have a go at this"
Alan |
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My mother
From when i was a baby (and before) to up now, my mother would take loads of photos of us growing up, from having a box brownie, 110, 35mm compacts right up to her now owning 2 x nikon f65 cameras with a nikon zoom and a 50mm nikon af lens (not bad for a 67 yr old). I laugh at the state of the clothes i wore as a kid (flares, flyway collars) but it was a recording of a split second in time and is an indication of the saying "get it before it`s gone". paddy |
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Oh i forgot to mention
I recently found some B+W negs in my mothers house from her box brownie years (60`s), some of the negs are starting to go a silvery colour and have dust spots on them, but i will have a go at printing them in the future and see how they turn out paddy |
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Newspaper pictures. When I was a kid I'd cut out and keep dramatic shots.
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Watching an Uncle Taking photos with an old folding kodak camera and then helping him in his darkroom developing the films and printing the negatives
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My Dad and his Box Brownie and then Instamatic . . each photo was an event! And if I was really lucky he'd let me take a few pictures - D&P was expensive stuff
But it wasn't until I went to art college in Dundee and signed up for photography as part of my graphics course, that I came to realise how much I loved it. I didn't realise quite how much until I was tutored by Joseph McKenzie, a great photographer and person. What these two guys sowed is still bearing fruit! Phil |
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A book on photography I read when I was 14 made me persuade my father to get me a second-hand SLR Yashica and an enlarger a couple of years later.
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must have been eight or nine when I got my flirst Kodak box. I'd made a roll or two when my grandfather came around one day with a 6 x 9 copying frame he had used himself - that got me going. The magic of contact printinng was the start. Then somebody lifted my box while traveling on a train and I had to wait several years until I got the next camera
In the meantime, however, I was allowed to practice with my father's Leica, probably a II from 36/7. At fourteen I got a Voigtlander Prominent and soon after an enlarger (Liesegang) - I made some business by being the "official" photographer of my class. But that was the only time I was able to make money on photography. peter |
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