Mt Spokane Photography said:My first serious 35mm film camera was a Argus C3 back in the 1960's. I was a college student, and it was the best I could afford. I also had a conventional flash and a light meter. I mostly shot Kodachrome II.
I bought a Canon FT QL when I graduated and could afford it. I built a darkroom in my garage (I had done printing in High School). That meant I was using Ektachrome, which I did not like, My slides had a greenish tint. Besides B&W, I even did a few color prints, which was far to difficult. I was working 60 hour weeks, and had little spare time to spend hours and hours in my darkroom.
Later, I bought a Polaroid as a 2nd camera. It was easy to use, and we have many albums documenting our kids as they grew up. The only issue is that they are faded badly, and many can't even be recognizable. I need to find time to scan what's left.
If I could do it again.
1. No Polaroid The prints are faded, and for all practical purposes gone.
2. No polaroid - see above
3. Never use color print film, those Kodachrome II slides are still pristine, while my color negatives are not. Some of my B&W negatives almost 80 years old are perfect.
I love digital. Each copy is a original. I've scanned hundreds of old slides, prints, and negatives and sent out dozens of DVD's to cousins, siblings, and children. That means that there will likely be someone who cares enough to keep copying them to new media long after I'm gone.
Marsu42 said:Here's good ol' Marsu's latest scheme to help each other out by sharing some knowledge
If you could time-travel 3 short pieces of advice back to yourself when you started of with photography, what would it be?
I'll go ahead!
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[*]shoot loose
[*]calibrate your monitor
[*]tell a story
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Now, don't be shy! What did you miss back then you've learned by now?
AlanF said:distant.star said:.
I now rarely make the dreadful errors you see in this picture I took 54 years ago...
If it's helpful at all, here are my three primary rules:
1. SEE the image.
2. Get the image into the box.
3. Get the image out of the box.
Never quite as easy as it sounds.
It's a really great photo that tells a story of its period. The gross American car just peeking through on the left, the single-storey house behind a metal fence with a bored canine looking sideways, and the very clever touch of showing the photographer in a military helmet via the shadow. That was 1960 - a real classic of which you should be proud.
ps, the composition is great - the massive, triangular shadow leading in to the scene, culminating in the helmeted head about 1/3rd up and 1/3rd in, then moving centre to the dog and swinging into the tailfins of the car about 1/3rd down.
Codzilla said:So here it is, hobbyist advice to a newbie hobbyist:
westr70 said:see what is in the background
Mt Spokane Photography said:No Polaroid The prints are faded, and for all practical purposes gone.
AlanF said:It's a really great photo that tells a story of its period. The gross American car just peeking through on the left
20Dave said:The earliest piece of advice that I received from my father doesn't really apply to my current camera but could apply to mirrorless and some other cameras.
He went to Super Bowl V (back in 1970, I believe) and brought his Minolta camera. As he was walking along, he spotted Muhammad Ali walking towards him. He asked if he could take his picture, to which Ali happily obliged. When he later showed the slides to our family, he said that he would never make the mistake that he made on that photo again - from now on, he would make sure that the the lens cap was off the lens before taking photos :'(. He always left that lovely pitch-black slide in the carousel, just to remember the moment.
Hi dgatwood!dgatwood said:3. Skip the Rebel, and go full-frame from day one. You'll thank me later.
4. If you ignore #3, do not, under any circumstances, buy it with the original 18–55 kit lens. It suuuuuuucks.