A
Anonymous10/22/25, 21:42No.4476808
at what age and how did you find that you were into photography/videography?
28
Replies
A
Anon10/22/25, 21:54No.4476810
When I turned 29
A
Anon10/23/25, 01:13No.4476851
If you haven't publicly displayed or published a 100+ strong portfolio before 2017 under your own name, you can never be trusted as a photographer. You will just be considered a turd-polishing snapshitter who uses AI as a crutch. Assume every "photo" (image) is upscaled and using generative fill with entire elements faked including the subject. Fake grain, fake skies, fake depth of field. Fake fake fake.Photography relies on the honor code and 2017 was the cutoff. Anyone on the scene after that is way too new to be trusted and most of their stuff will be fake. Photography is for established oldfags and nobody gives two shits about the new kids. Sorry, but you missed the boat faggots. Have fun drowning in a sea of your kin and never getting noticed or respected apart from fake likes and follows so you like and follow back.-trusted published oldfag with a strong irl following
A
Anon10/23/25, 01:39No.4476864
It really hit me at like 13 or 14. I took a point and shoot on a school trip and got one particularly cool photo and wanted to take more. Before that it was just messing around every now and again with disposables.
A
Anon10/23/25, 02:10No.4476872
never cared much about photography myself despite enjoying visual art and photographs, but almost two years ago now my folks were like "we're gonna donate a bunch of old crap unless you want it" and for some reason I took their late 70s SLRs and the one telephoto lens my dad had. been shooting ever since, really enjoying the process and taking the time to document my own life/places I go/etc. its nice having some images that feel less disposable than a phone snapshit that I may well never look at again. anyway I'm almost 35 now.
A
Anon10/23/25, 03:27No.4476894
14ish, took first trip to Europe and took pictures like crazy on it with my ancient digishit
Started working at camera shop / photo lab at 17, found p, and started first paid photo work shortly after and just kept it going between working at different shops, shooting full time, shooting part time + regular job, to mostly shooting for fun + more picky about paid work
That was like 16 years ago now lol, but didn't get into video really until 3-4 years ago
A
Anon10/23/25, 03:41No.4476900
I got a Samsung digishit for Christmas when I was six years old so probably then. I’d love to see the photos I took back then but they’re all gone -_-,
A
Anon10/23/25, 04:19No.4476907
Once i learned I liked the idea of being an artist, but couldn't draw or paint for shit. My parents got me my first camera at 12 and would never stop raving about my "artistic ability". I submitted a macro picture of a flower to the Idaho state fair and it got first place in its division (pic related). It was all down hill from there.
A
Anon10/23/25, 08:16No.4476942
it was an arranged marriage type, love came after. i was 20, working online and making good money for the first time, so i started thinking what should i get with it:
> always liked cameras
> look up dslr tutorials
> get hooked to the simplicity and the mechanical nature of it all
> army service made me postpone a purchasing decision, so i had a couple years deciding on a camera make which in turn sent me down the technical rabbit hole
> ended up getting my first full frame dslr and went crazy with it.
A
Anon10/24/25, 16:28No.4477179
4
A
Anon10/25/25, 18:18No.4477366
I got into it in 2017 when I was in college after a bad break up. I fell out of it after graduating though because work got too busy
Since then I changed jobs and started going out more and doing things and I got fully back into almost a year ago now
A
Anon10/25/25, 19:04No.4477375
when i was like 15 i got a slr and some film n it was fun :p
A
Anon10/26/25, 13:20No.4477589
35 because "midlife crisis", just wanted to enjoy life more and trying new things. It was either a camera or a motorcycle, went with the former + home gym
A
Anon10/26/25, 13:49No.4477594
>It was either a camera or a motorcycle
Get both, it's a killer combo. Ride out to random places for a day and get some pics while you're at it. That's what I do when I'm fed up with the shitheels that infest city-life.
A
Anon10/26/25, 13:58No.4477596
got on of those my first (35mm) cameras when i was a kid and got a dslr when i was 16 or so, stopped shooting digital now, film is where its at
A
Anon10/26/25, 15:01No.4477612
Around 22... and then my life went to shit and I lost all interest, and only took it back up again when I was 35.
A
Anon11/06/25, 16:21No.4480880
17 in 2015. Did a photography class in highschool. We used Film SLRs with a darkroom. It was fun going around campus then inding out our photos were complete shit and out of focus after exposing our black and white photos. Now I just like taking photos or small videos of comfiness around the world.
A
Anon11/15/25, 10:02No.4482917
I live in a town city (a town that over my life industrialized into a city). This town city is located in foothills, the hills are a 100 km away. Where my house is, from the ceiling you can see Mount Kanchenjunga in clear winter days, with the smaller hills always being visible on any clear day. Also parts of my town are still pretty rural, there were more, but is become less now. Being in such a place of different aesthetics, whenever i visited the hills, i wished to capture it, same for the rural areas. One fine winter day 6 years ago, i got to see Mount Kanchenjunga in pristine clarity, at that moment i decided that my smartphone was not enough and i finally picked up my dads dslr. Have learnt the basics, still a noob. I really appreciate the masters before me and their techniques. Visting this board and studying up techniques and post process has made me appreciate this art much more. It has also increased my scope from just hills. Photography is one of the few things that gives me genuine happiness.
A
Anon11/16/25, 00:54No.4483144
>14 years. old start taking photos of random shit on my dad's 4mp bridge camera. gives me his ae-1 and I start taking photos of my friends skateboarding
>15 years old. friends are way better than me at skateboarding and I can't skate the spots so i start to just hangout and shoot photos instead
A
Anon11/16/25, 04:53No.4483227
When I was in my teens back in the late 90s my old man designated me the family photographer with his ae1 lol. It’s been an on and off relationship since then. But it’s one of those things that even if I stop for months or years I always eventually come back around. Like RuneScape lol
A
Anon11/16/25, 09:55No.4483295
I took a photo of my grandpa when I was seven. It looked good with him and the background.
I realised that I had an eye for a photo in my 20s. Never had a camera until I got a smartphone when I was 32, and I became a snapshitter extraordinaire. Sadly, my attempts to parlay that into IG success and possibly an income failed miserably after persisting for four years, now I just snapshit when I'm at the park each Saturday in one of my rare times outside.
A
Anon12/03/25, 07:00No.4486095
When I was 4 years old in 1972.