Your first photo?

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  • what was your first photo ever? not your most professional, glitzy first photo. but the first photo you took for fun.

    mine was when my aunt gave me a polaroid camera for my birthday. i ran through so many packs of film until it broke :meh:. i still have some of the pictures i took (hopefully i'll scan them and show them soon). looks like my aunt was some sort of clairvoyant because here i am again years later!


  • I kind of laugh at mine. One year I wished for a camera for Christmas when I was around 7 or 8 years old. My parents bought me a cheap(probably $15-20) 35mm film camera since I was 7 and didn't need anything more than that. It didn't have any type of zoom and the only setting you could change was flash on or off. I believe the first picture I took was on Christmas morning of my next door neighbor and childhood friend. He was standing in the yard dressed up for church and holding a stuffed dinosaur he had gotten for Christmas. I still have the picture somewhere. There is something about it that I can't figure out, it actually could be a great picture after changing it to black and white and making some adjustments. But I never get around to it.


  • This is the earliest I can find. It was taken in May of 1986. Its a young thunderstorm in the setting sun.

    http://www.wxnut.net/up5.jpg

    Doug Raflik
    http://www.dougraflikphotography.com


  • now we know where it all started huh
    nice start there...


  • Hm.. well my first 'set' of photos was around my high school graduation. My dad had brought his AE-1 program out with him. They day after we went to a place called the Crystal Bridge (its an indoor botanical garden in Oklahoma City) and I borrowed his camera to try and shoot a few roles. Loved the act itself of photography (and was even better when I got the pics back) and my grandparents liked them so much they mailed me their AE-1 to keep and then that was that.. I couldn't stop doing photography.

    I think my best pic from that day was a nice one of a bird of paradise that had just been watered so was still covered with water drops.


  • Doug, we need that in this very theme over in the Photo Themes... forgot what it's called right now, but there is a thread running on one's first photo somewhere. I could bump it for you (actually I am thinking about bumping it with one of MY earliest photos, but I don't think I have that one here ... the negatives may well be at my sister's though. Hmph).

    The first I do have here were taken during a school class excursion in 1975. On slides... would need to scan them.


  • I can't remember, though it was probably with some Kodak point & shoot. Or a Polaroid - we had a couple of those floating around. I still remember thinking it was the coolest thing in the world, watching that cube flash move around until it was spent. :D


  • Mine I was about four. It was with my dads AE-1. I managed to take a photograph of the beach, but the bottom half of the frame is the wall I was sitting the camera on because I could hardly reach or see over it. I acually quite like the shot, even though it's terrible. At least its sharp.


  • Iwas probably about 4 so it might have been my grandparents with there heads out of the frame.







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