Hi

[Red Soldier]

Hey, I'm new to the forum, as you can see, and I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Tony, I'm 16, I just recently bought my first camera, and I love it. I've been shooting and/or playing with my camera ever since I took it home with me. Photography is quickly becoming my favorite class in school as well as my favorite hobby outside school. I'm sure I'll have plenty of pictures and questions for you soon.

I look forward to talking with all of you.

-Tony

[RichardtheSane]

Welcome Tony, you picked a good forum :D

How I wish we had photography classes when I was at school, I'd be doing ot professional now if we had.
What camera did you buy?

Good shooting, be sure to post in the share photo's forum too :)

[Belmondo]

Hi Tony:
My name is Tom, and I'm an old, grey-haired fossil who fortunately remembers very clearly what it's like to be 16---believe it or not.

I took photography in high school roughly 45 years ago. We didn't have very elegant equipment then, even by the standards of the day, but I did learn some valuable fundamentals that have served me over the years.

The school had a couple so-so cameras that we were allowed to use including an old Speed Graphic that used 4" X 5" sheet film that we had to load into film holders. The process was slow, complicated, and generally a pain in the neck. It did teach us to be very careful and thorough about setting up our shots, however. We generally went out on a shoot with only enough film to take 8 to 10 pictures before we'd have to go back to the darkroom and load more film. Surprisingly, though, the quality of those black and white pictures was quite good.

Sometime, just for fun, you might get a good older manual 35mm camera and a light meter---go outdoors and take some pictures. You'll learn a lot more about composition, lighting, and image aesthetics when you have a finite number of exposures to accomplish your task.

Photography is a wonderful hobby. Work kept me away from it for too many years, and I regret the time I lost. Now, I look back and ask myself, what would it really have cost in time and trouble to have a camera at my side during the most important episodes of my life? If I had, I could have captured so many images that are now only dusty memories.

Enjoy yourself and learn. Unlike me, your past is still largely ahead of you.


Tom

[Red Soldier]

RichardtheSane wrote:
Welcome Tony, you picked a good forum :D

How I wish we had photography classes when I was at school, I'd be doing ot professional now if we had.
What camera did you buy?

Good shooting, be sure to post in the share photo's forum too :)

It's a Canon Rebel 2000 ti; a birthday present from my father. I'm going to pick up some photos in a few hours, the dark room at school wasn't open so I had to drop them off at walgreens. Oh well. I'll make sure to scan them and post them here.

[pyonir]

Hey everyone!

I just joined up too. I figured i'd just post in Tony's thread as to not flood the forums. (hope that's ok Tony)

I'm a twenty-something guy that just got his first camera; a Canon G3. I took photography back in high school and really liked it but just never saved up to buy a decent camera. Now that i have one i'm extremely interested in learning. I've only had my camera for about a month, and after finding these forums a couple weeks ago, my head has been spinning!

Look forward to contributing to the forums. :)