HEY(!) I have never seen a post on hear about the joys of photography, so I thought that I wold make one! If you would like to share what equipment you use and what you like to use, what kind of photography you like. Personally I prefer to run some Ilford HP5 plus through the Mamiya RB67 then develop and hand print the images in a traditional dark room, why? The satisfaction of hand processing your images from start to finish is just wonderful. Unfortunately I don't own one at the moment so I have to borrow one from my college when ever I want to use it. When I am not in full analog mode the Nikon D3000 serves me well :icon_bigg
Hey! amateur photographer here. i use canon on mainly of my photos but swtiched to d90 when it died. i actually have a blog but this account is incognito so i cant tell what it is lol i have 3 old cameras actually that i wanted to use and develop my own shots, i find that idea awesome too! black and white is my thing
Having replied to at least three photography threads, I can say there are many. I'm a hobbyist as well, but I'd like to go pro.
June loves her camera! I used to use Nikon F for most of my life and my dad's old Roloflex 110mm camera as well. back in 2003 I got my first digital camera a Sony mavica that took these little cd's which I used for ebay mostly. Then I got a Panasonic 6 mega pixel in 2007 which used sd cards and took fairly good snapshots. A couple years ago I got a little Nikon coolpix 10 mega pixel that I use all the time now and I gave my film cameras away to a young guy really into film. My uncle reall got me into film back in the early 80's and he had a neat developer called a Kreonite (probably mispelled) which was automatic. The only thing I really miss about film cameras is my cokin filters that gave neat effects like rainbows, stars, fog, color and all sorts of others I had. I think I am one of the few on here with a album on here. I should add one with neat pics I have taken across this country! Nice to see other camera buffs out there! June
Wow, it's nice to hear of someone still using analog photography. I agree one can do almost anything just as well digitally these days, but there is some sort of satisfaction from developing and printing analog negatives. I was one of two photographers for my high school yearbook and so was constantly shooting pictures and processing 10 or 15 rolls of film at a time. We had mad darkroom runs where we'd go through and print maybe a hundred pics in one session. I had a dedicated darkroom in my house (my parents were incredibly lenient and generous in that regard.) I noticed the other day that much of the chemistry and paper I used (Ektaflo, Ilford multigrade, most Agfa products, the various different film developers, etc) seem to no longer be made. I know the demand has gone way down so I suppose only the most popular stuff survives, but it's still sort of sad. I did find one site where someone's come up with the formulas to assemble your own darkroom chemistry by buying and mixing the raw chemicals used to make them, and if I were to ever get back into analog photography, that would be fun to try. It's particularly cool that people of your generation are still doing analog photography. I suspect that will be an art that won't survive too many more generations.
And more importantly, that would be against the offsite contact rule. I took an elective in photography during my extra year of high school and fell in love with it. I've been shooting with a Canon Rebel XS (nothing too fancy) for... almost 4 years now? I doubt I'll ever take it past a hobby, but I'd love to one day. Some of my nicer shots are in my album here on EC for show: http://emptyclosets.com/forum/members/8088-albums3586.html And this is what the wall of my room looks like plastered in my photos:
BudderMC you have some awesome photos I see. I've also been working on a wall recently. I've been a hobbyist for as long as I've been able to. I always enjoyed being shutter happy. I use a Nikon D80, and before that an old but faithful Coolpix 5.1mp.
I like photography as well (particularly urban (skylines and cityscapes) and nature photography). But...alas...I'm a novice :/
