buttttttttttt I am so curious to put a face to all the photographers on here! and maybe getting a bit of background like how long you've been shooting, if photography is your hobby or your job and what photographers influenced you most!
orrr you could just post a picture of yourself ;-)
This is just a way for everyone to get to know each other.
Right now im really digging irving penn helmut newton steven meisel, and many more well known classic names.
i also enjoy many photographers who are on here.. too many to name!
Have been shooting 5 years total, almost 1 year in fashion/ beauty.
Right now I am an amateur in fashion but i hope to make it my career some day soon! :-)
My most influential photographer is my dad, he's the awesome. Him and my mom gave me SO much support and confidence. So even though I think I suck, they're still proud and happy!
Been taking pictures since I was 6 (according to dad) or 9 (according to mom) . I'm a full time photographer- so far so good.
I have to agree with SPierce. My biggest influence for photography was my father. It was only his hobby, but he had a real love for it and was a real joy behind the camera. I have only been shooting for the last 3 years.
A friend wants to license this pose for all his stock doctor portraits. I'm an EMT. And as a male boudoir photographer, I think it shows a certain level of approachability/comfort.
I'm not a pro shooter, I'm an amateure who just loves to shoot. I have no formal training, just picked up a camera back in 2001 and just started playing with it and went from there. I was working at a camera store that dealt mostly with film cameras up until about 2007 where I absorbed a lot of knowledge from the old curmudgeons there including photoshop skills from Ellis White who was basically the in-house retoucher/restoration person, who also had about 40 years of commercial photography experience and was also a photographer with the Navy for a few years, so you can bet your ass I leeched info from him while I worked there.
Shot my first MM model (or first model period) around 2007, named Ethan James, so course my first model was also my first underage model. By then I was already shooting both film and digital (I learned film after digital), for example these two are digital and medium format 6x7 with expired film from the 70s (self developed and self printed)
I shoot shoot weddings and portraits part-time. The other part time is divided between being a dad, husband, and financial securities processor.
Influences: #1 my father, he taught me all the basics as a kid. #2 Avedon, he taught me to strip away the masks people put up and grab the true emotions out.
Photography was always mostly a hobby, and sometimes a side job for me. Until recently when I was laid off. Now I'm trying to turn it into a full time job, at least until I find another job in EMS. But here's a couple of pics of me at my old job (sorry for the crappy cell phone pics)
The second one was taken while working Halloween night in Salem, MA. Always an interesting experience when you get 100,000+ people in costume together in a small city and they start drinking... I responding to a stabbing about 3 minutes after that pic was taken.
My avatar is a picture of me with a human statue. I am a retired / owner of a photo studio and I have been shooting (being paid) for 48 years. My mentor was my grandfather and I still have the scares on my hands when I did something wrong. I was trained first on developing film and what a perfect negative was and how important the negative it was in production of a print, only then did I progress to large format camera.
Me on top of cannonballs. That was an instant polaroid camera I had back then. I could instantly print a picture but the cartridge had a limit of 10 so I knew they had to count. My sister had a 110 which she later developed and here is the shot. I wished I saved a lot of the pictures but many got lost and damaged by water or discolored.
Here is like I look today.
The photographer who has most influenced me was John Hoagland. John did amazing work as a photojournalist. And his advice when I first went overseas kept me from doing really stupid stuff that would have either gotten me killed, PNG'ed, or missed great shots. He was great that way--taking newbies under his wing. He was considered the dean of photographers for El Salvador (which says something given than Susan Meiselas was there at the same time). Predictably, John died in combat...the motor drive on his camera was still going when he was killed.
My career? Quick summary...started doing stringer work for local papers (covering sports) when I was in high school. Shot for my college paper (mostly sports). Went overseas in 1981 when I finished school. About 15 years working a range of overseas gigs (El Salvador, Guatemala, Beirut, Colombia, Somalia, Bosnia). Photography for me is now a hobby. I use it to stay sane.
I am a full time pro with a studio on the Mississippi river. My specialty is product photography but I do like shooting models. My studio is getting back into weddings.
Started shooting when i was 16...got married a couple times, degree in art, raised a couple great kids, only shot sparingly, then got back to shooting in 2002 after the kids moved out.
I've not been shooting long but i love it. there are so many amazing photographers/friends that I've worked with in the past that inspire me and still bounce things off of. They help me learn. cause i still have so much to learn.
I began shooting in 1963 at the age of 13 with roll film cameras and was given a Nikon SP Rangefinder for my 16th birthday. The Nikon F2Photomic was the first camera I was really in love with. The current enthusiasm is the Nikon D800...
The "resume"
Photojournalism and Documentary Photography 1969 - 2006
I started shooting with my fathers Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta when I was 10. At age 11 he got me a Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL. At 15 I started shooting for the local newspaper.
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