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leilani
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 02:03 - Edited by: leilani
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Thought this would be fun to answer, good to know, and something to talk about if youd like.
1) What kind of camera do you use?
2) How long have you been shooting?
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
4) What do you shoot?
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
7) What got you started?
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Marcos
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 04:59
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1) Point and Shoot maybe semi-professional.
2) For 4 years, almost 5.
3) Amateur and Artist, anyway the photography is an Art. :-)
4) Mostly people and strange or interesting structures.
5) I learned alone, trying.
6) I always edit my pictures to get the colours I like, adjust the contrast and sometimes the saturation, sometimes some other things.
7) I don´t really know. Maybe it was my artistic part of the brain, who knows? :-)
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leilani
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 05:10
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1) What kind of camera do you use?
K1000, Canonet G-III QL17, Sony DSC-F828, Holga, Disposable
2) How long have you been shooting?
about 2 yrs
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
Amateur
4) What do you shoot?
anything but me.
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
Guam. Friends. Book. Meself.
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
I think the real question here is what would McGuyver do?
7) What got you started?
hmm not so sure. A lot of things I guess. Or maybe nothing at all.
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Oscar_
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 07:58
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Nice topic !
1) A Canon EOS 400D and a Canon Powershot S1IS
2) about 7 years with a digital camera, therfore always analoge.
3) I'm an amature shooter with sometimes semi-prof results IMO
4) I like to shoot everything but special nature and city's
5) I learn it myself, reading internet and ofcaurse Woophy.
6) The pics I like I edit with photoshop but I store allmost every pic on dvd for the future.
7) I get the photo disease from my father. Sinse I'm on Woophy I got the shooting disease more and more. Also going digital makes me happy.
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pansa
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 08:18 - Edited by: pansa
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1) A Nikon Coolpix 8800 and 5900 and an analogue Nikkormat.
2) About 40 years ago. Digital for the last 3-4 years.
3) I am an amateur but with semi professional ambitions.
4) My speciality is "nature". I think because nature doesn't protest. I also like to make abstract "photo art" starting from a real px and working towards an abstract interpretation.
5) I am an autodidact, but read many photo periodicals and books.
6) Store them on hard discs (external). Some 10% is edited in PS and 0.1% ends up on Woophy, Flickr, fotocollectief etc.
7) It's in the family. My grandfather was a professional photographer and my eldest brother a semi-professional (he sold his pictures to magazines and calendar printers).
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Jeroen Krol
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 08:35
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1) What kind of camera do you use?
Nikon D200 and a Nikon F80 when I feel I want to dot it the old way...
2) How long have you been shooting?
Must have been since 1999, my first real travel: going through the south of Vietnam by bike...
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
A serious amateur, sometimes being able to earn back some gear...
4) What do you shoot?
anything 'Travel', landscapes, 1st impressions etc.
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
Hmmm, since that first travel in Vietnam, but a I made a major step during a round-the-world-trip which lasted 8 months, now several years back
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
1st: let them rest for a while, they never seem to be any good. Then after some hours or days, the seem to 'develop' and i can see some opportunities. Then I Post process them and store them on a hard drive, printing the best ones and trying to sell the 'sellers'
7) What got you started?
Well, going around in Vietnam was something that needed to be documented.
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pansa
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 09:18
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I agree with Jeroen that a px needs to "rest" a couple of days or weeks before postprocessing. There are exceptions of course like the series of sunsets 19 dec 2006 that I have put within minutes on Woophy because there was a forum topic on sunset that day.
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www.imagografie.ch
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 09:18
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1) A Nikon D70s with different lenses
2) Always loved to take pictures, but as serious i do now; since about a year
3) Amateur with the passion to go further :-)
4) anything, exept me... mostly i do landscapes, macro, etc
5) just trying...! reading books, internet, woophy of course! and the member of the fotoclub i joyned helped me a lot too
6) some end up here on woophy, some on fotocommunity and a lot on my own website. i try to sell them too, not successfully yet..... :-) i store them an cd and extern hard drive
7) i'm a visiuell-type of a person. i love forms, colours, pictures, paintings etc. i see a lot of tiny details without searching. when i went to a store with kalenders or postcards i had always to look at them. someday i thouthg i could try to make such pictures myself.. and now i can't stop me!
good topic btw ;-)
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John Melskens
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 10:10 - Edited by: John Melskens
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1) Canon Xius 750, Sony F828, Canon EOS 350D with a few lenses, but I think of using an analog camera again and then scanning the film.... just to see how that works.
2) Not counting the real amateur time when I just brought my films to a photoshop to get them printed, it is now about 35 years ago.
3) When you earn money with your photography on a daily basis, you are a professional.
So I used to be a professional, now I am an amateur. Sometimes I earn some money, like with winning a price in a photo-contest recently.
4) People mostly, but really anything. I am not a fan of macro's and sportsphotography, but I have done that too. I would love to try underwater-phtography, but not in cold water..... :-))
5) Friends, colleagues, working for other photographers, books and most of all from looking at other pictures, paintings, movies, etc.
6) As soon as possible I process them and choose the photos that I like. Some of them will be uploaded to Woophy, others send to friends, all of them are first stored on the harddisk and after a while on DVD and the external harddrive. Some of them may be sold...
7) My father was an amateur painter. That got me interessed in art. I used to draw pictures all the time - the only thing I was good in... I wanted to be a painter, but after my first real oil-painting in art school, I discovered that taking photos didn't took as much time as painting and it was not as messy....
Oh yes, and taking photos was a great way to meet girls! That is the reason why I wanted to be a fashion photographer too... :-))
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devish
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 13:56
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1) What kind of camera do you use?
a kodak z700, just a simple one, but works fine for me.
2) How long have you been shooting?
I have become serious about it when I bought the camera on my own, it was my first real investment, 1 year ago.
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
Amateur and Hobbyst and agree with Marcos, all photography is art!
4) What do you shoot?
Anything that catches my attention, but what I love to shoot are landscapes.
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
My father helped me a lot, when he was young he was a photo-maniac, just like me now.
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
It dipends, often I like to crop some parts to see what effects different corners of the same pic create.
7) What got you started?
Traveling, I love to explore and go places and I like to document it, so last year before going to switzerland I bought my self a camera to document everything.
Very nice idea leilani...thank you.
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Max Besana
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 16:19
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Thought this would be fun to answer, good to know, and something to talk about if youd like.
1) What kind of camera do you use?
Canon 350D
2) How long have you been shooting?
In and out... I started really young, 20 years ago, shoot for a while, then got my camera robbed adn took me seven years to be able to buy a new one :)
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
Ha!! I would love to be a Pro, by i concidered myself as an artist :)
4) What do you shoot?
Anything, but mostly nature... god's creation is awesome!
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
Took a two year course at the Asociacion Argentina de Fotograia, where I used to live, in Buenos Aires
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
Shared them with my friends, publish them or just used them for other graphic porpouses related to my job, a visual artist :P
7) What got you started?
My inhability to reflect the beauty of this world in drawings, paints or anything else... I feel I have to share this moments...
Thanks for this great idea!
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Dieuwertje
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 17:39
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1) a Olympus MJU 740
2) I was 20 years old when I started with an old Kodak box
3) Amatteur, sometimes I try to be an artist
4) Nature and all what belongs to it, as animals, flowers and so on....
5)I learnt it myself and now by Woophy
6) I am never done with my photo's, some I like to printing,or I made carts of them for my friends and I load them on a CD Rom
7) As I see something beautiful, I will safe it and share it with other people.
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geert geenen
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 18:47
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nice item, leilani. here are my answers:
1. Nikon Coolpix 4600
2. Used to make only snapshots of my children and on holidays. Then i discovered (this summer) Woophy. Since a month or four I never leave mu house without a camera.
3. I'm an amateur, who sometimes tries to be an artist.
4. I shoot everything I see. But I'm a bit shy and respect the privacy of people. So i mainly make pictures of trees, buildings, nature, strange signs, graffiti, etcetera.
5. I learned it myself. And I learned it by watching work of other people, for instance here on Woophy.
6. Roughly five percent of my pictures I upload on Woophy. I send some to my friends. And I store them on dvd.
7. My old camera was stolen and then I bought a digital one. That made me enthousiast. Then i discovered Woophy. And now I'm an addict.
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olmze
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 19:36
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1. Canon 10D and Casio Exilim
2. Over 30 years ago
3. I'm amateur.
4. All I like and sometimes more :-)
Nature, animlas, flowers, buildings, etc. ... and airplanes
5. Trying and looking other pictures. I also read articles and books.
6. They go in the archive, there I categorise them. Few pics I upload on woophy.
I show them to friends if they want to see some.
7. I can't say. I only like taking pictures.
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de stilte
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 19:46
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1) What kind of camera do you use?
Konica Minolta D7 with several lenses.
2) How long have you been shooting?
My first picture when I was 7 or 8 years old, my first camera when I was about 19
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
Amateur and like some others tries to be an artist...;-)
4) What do you shoot?
Everything I like from kids to cars to clouths to buildings to animals .......
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
autodidact, looking at others work, read books about photography, following tips and advises......and a lot here on woophy
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
Sometimes I cannot wait to upload pictures on woophy, and sometimes days, weeks or even months go by before I see that something in a picture what makes it worthwhile to upload/publish them
7) What got you started?
With my first camera I followed a hotairballoon on a wintersday, cold crispy clear weather with a bright blue sky. The balloon was in the colours of the dutch flag, red white blue........when I picked up the photo's from the photoshop I was so excited and at that point photography got the real grip on me.........
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Graaf
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 20:31
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1) What kind of camera do you use?
Nikon D100, Nikon F90X, 17mm, 28-70 F2.8 and a 80-200 F2.8 objective
2) How long have you been shooting?
Since 8-7 years, but I put a lot of energy in it for about 5 years
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
Amateur
4) What do you shoot?
Everything thatgives 'me' chickenskin...
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
From a good friend in NL and shooting, shooting and shooting...
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
Archive them, never trow them away. Aftera while they somethimes appear back on my wall again
7) What got you started?
Traveling around the globe.......and what you see is what you get!
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Martin de Rijk
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 20:58
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Very nice topic Leilani
1) What kind of camera do you use?
A Canon EOS 350
2) How long have you been shooting?
Since 1985, when my wife gave me my first Konica as a birthday present.
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
An amateur, and I like to see myself an artist sometimes ;-)
4) What do you shoot?
Everything I come across but mostly people, city objects. I like to focus on details but I'm not into macro or nature.
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
I'm an autodidact, try to learn from others and read some books
Woophy is very inspirational.
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
Save them on a hard drive, print some favorites, share them with friends and recently I discovered the making of my own books, and that gives me lots of pleasure.
7) What got you started?
The receiving of the camera and, quoting Max Besana: "My inhability to reflect the beauty of this world in drawings, paints or anything else...."
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Becks
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# Posted: 16 Feb 07 22:15
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1) What kind of camera do you use?
A Canon EOS 350D
2) How long have you been shooting?
Scince June 2006 ( the Canon was may own birthday present)
Formely I used to take a photo here and there..
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
concerning technical things: Amateur, otherwise its like some others said : I like to see myself an artist...
4) What do you shoot?
I am fascinated by things I see everyday on the streets, but also by things that cannot be seen at first sight.
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
I am autodidact, learning by doing (this means to shoot many, many, many pics), I read some books, I devour foto-websites and, if there is time, I have long conversations with a professional fotographer to get some technical tricks ;-)
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
Some of the pics which remain my selections I share in woophy. From others I make foto-books which I give to friends. Newly I exhibit the most of my favourites on my new hompage www.bilder-bu.ch which is growing day to day ;-) thats my great pleasure (besides taking fotos ;-)) ) Would be a dream, if I could sell some pics somewhere along the way..
7) What got you started?
an invitation of my best friend MaPe to join woophy.....
it was a great challenge to show my pics to people from all over the world and to face up to their comments
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th-
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# Posted: 17 Feb 07 20:50
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1) What kind of camera do you use?
Camera: EOS 350D, Lens: 18-55, 28-105, 75-300, Flash: 580EX, Tripod: Dörr Ps 15
2) How long have you been shooting?
I started almost 30 years ago.
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
I'm an amateur.
4) What do you shoot?
Landscapes, plants/flowers and people (a lot of portraits, which for some reasons i do NOT publish, sorry).
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
Learning by doing, read some books about technics
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
I archive them, sometimes i create slide shows on DVD for friends.
7) What got you started?
There was no specific reason.
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Wilfrid
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# Posted: 18 Feb 07 14:37
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1) What kind of camera do you use?
__Fuij Finepix S602 Zoom, before 2002 Canon EF and Canon FTb with different lenses.
2) How long have you been shooting?
__I began more than 45 years ago, but i had a brake of 15 years til i started 2002 with digital photography.
3) Professional, Semi-Pro, Amateur, Hobbyist, Artist?
__I'm an amateur.
4) What do you shoot?
__Nature, landscape, buildings, details.
5) Where did you learn to shoot?
__ My father, myself and some books.
6) What do you do with your photos when you're done with them?
__First i store them write protected on harddisk and DVD (bad pics where trashed at once),
__most of pics i edit with photoshop and store them in a different folder, i never overwrite the originals.
7) What got you started?
__My father had this virus, he infected me when i was a little boy, sitting beside him in his blackroom.
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