How old were you?

When you first got serious about photography?

I just turned 50 this year and I really started from scratch in 2005. I sometimes wonder if I waited too late but I still have dreams of being a great photog some day so I keep on keeping on.

How about you?

11-12 I think. 61 now.

jdouglas003 wrote in post #6797976
When you first got serious about photography?

I just turned 50 this year and I really started from scratch in 2005. I sometimes wonder if I waited too late but I still have dreams of being a great photog some day so I keep on keeping on.

How about you?

Similar situation; at 44 already, I started this gig in 2005 as well. With ever improving advancements in health care and medicine, you still might have a good three to four decades left in you, if not more, so it is certainly not too late.

at 25, and now im 27

jdouglas003 wrote in post #6797976
When you first got serious about photography?

I just turned 50 this year and I really started from scratch in 2005. I sometimes wonder if I waited too late but I still have dreams of being a great photog some day so I keep on keeping on.

How about you?

Which time?

I've been in and out of love with photography three times since high school.

One problem is that I have a lousy creative eye, so my shots are just "blah". Eventually I decided I didn't need a darkroom to print crappy photos. Then I decided I didn't need to schlep around an SLR and 3 lenses to shoot crappy photos.

Then, all of the limitations of pocket-sized mini-cams come into play during that once-in-a-blue-moon occasion when I do get a tiny ember of creativity and I convince myself that, this time, it'll be different.

I'm still shooting crappy photos, but I don't care as much anymore.

jdouglas003 wrote in post #6797976
When you first got serious about photography?

I just turned 50 this year and I really started from scratch in 2005. I sometimes wonder if I waited too late but I still have dreams of being a great photog some day so I keep on keeping on.

How about you?

About 11...I was doing B&W film processing about then! SLRs were still new enough that you could buy magazines written simply to explain the concept to rangefinder camera users!

Got the bug when I was around 15 or 16 years old. My parents had bought a Minolta X-700 back in 1988. At the time, as luck would have it, my High School offered extracurricular photography classes complete with unlimited use of a darkroom!

Finally hung up the X-700 for a Canon XTi in 2005.

IMO I don't think age matters to become a great photographer, more so your desire and effort.

I have the desire, but lack the effort since it's just a hobby for me. So I'm content with mediocrity.

I shot a lot of 110 back in the day when I would have been around 10. I got my 40D in April at the age of 21, which would constitute when I really got serious about it.

two years ago (17 Years old..)- Im 19 now...

canonnoob wrote in post #6798875
two years ago (17 Years old..)

Words of wisdom - If you really like it stick with it. Many of us old heads have started and stopped over and over again, only to regret it later.

have always shot pictures, but got seriously into more than just college party pictures about a year ago..(23 now)

jdouglas003 wrote in post #6798889
Words of wisdom - If you really like it stick with it. Many of us old heads have started and stopped over and over again, only to regret it later.

whats funny is that I have always been the guy behind the camera shooting friends and what not... Whether it was a video camera taping a friend doing flips on the trampoline or snowboarding, or now whether it is me shooting my own family portrait and not getting in the photo or anything along those lines... My avatar is the closest you will see me in a photo

jdouglas003 wrote in post #6798889
Words of wisdom - If you really like it stick with it. Many of us old heads have started and stopped over and over again, only to regret it later.

QFT...

I wish I'd had a more steady progression from early interest through now...

Not a major regret really but I have a pretty strong suspicion my life would have been quite different. Not better .. Not worse .. Just, Different.

About 1.5 years ago. I'm 23.

Probably around 7 or 8. Started with box brownies, a kodak instamatic (126 or 127, can't remember off hand) and later allowed to use my dads Canon 8mm movie camera.
Got another camera around about 11 then really got interested when I was about 17 with a Zenith EM 35mm, then a year or so later got the then all new Canon AE1 35mm.
Think it was about £179 back in '77. (a lot of money back then).
Left it alone on & off pretty much since then, but got back into I suppose around '98 onwards.
Great hobby, if not expensive at times.