Your first pictures!

[stiff spindle]

like.. nintendo? if so, legendary

[lusty apex]

you just reminded me i am on this server

[stiff spindle]

boo !

[lusty apex]

but yes, that was taken a few years ago on a nintendo DSi

[stiff spindle]

legend

[jade sinew]

Ik it’s not much this is my first ever one taken on iPhone 13 Pro Max

[old nest]

I had made a trip to California to visit some family after graduating from high school in 2021. And I was walking about 15 minutes away from where I had stayed, and I just had to take a picture of this view. This was the photo that really got me into photography.

[dawn moat]

First thing I posted to my "photography" Instagram, 55 weeks ago

Latest collection I posted, a few weeks ago

First real event photograph I posted to my main instagram, 120 weeks ago

But my first photographs weren't very well kept, I've been entrapping photons worth looking at for the better part of 8 years

[plucky forum]

One of my first photographs

[tall forge]

A picture of my GF i learn photography from her and her cute fuji

[bright granite]

i cant unsee darth vader

[tall forge]

Laugh my fuxin arse off

[knotty ivy]

My first creative photos I think was with a Canon powershotSX a little point and shoot in 2008

Kind of embarrassing looking at them now

[stiff spindle]

my first photo

taken near the top of Mt. Agamenticus in maine

on a piece of shit LG Tracphone

i wasnt even into photography but hey thats not terrible i guess

[mellow linden]

2nd photograph

im kiddin

[digital ginkgo]

Not a special photo but this is the first time I actually stay still to get a picture of something

[fresh plume]

Dont know what happened to my first but this would be amongst the first.

[vale sphinx]

My first photos (photography wise) I took with my iPhone 13 (as I still use for photography). I was with a friend and we went a few places

[brave frigate]

This was at Kersney Abbey in Dover Kent

[hollow basin]

i don't have digital images of the first pictures i ever took, so i'll stick with posting some of the first ones done on the D200 i started shooting seriously with

[fervent raft]

It could be worse

[sinful maple]

why is the grass so perfect

[fervent raft]

Because I cut that grass

[distant solstice]

Oldest phone photo I have saved and first photo I took with a DSLR

A few days into shooting seriously I think

[wooden fern]

Some of my first photos on my sony A6000

[sinful maple]

ur dogs are so cute omg

[warm patio]

These photos and a few more made me start to get into photography. When I really started to get into photography was in school when I took a photography class. Shoutout teacher. And only a few days ago my aunt got me a new camera! Also shoutout aunt.

[gusty elm]

What were your first pictures like? The first ones you took and felt like photography was something worth getting into? Here are some of mine, from 2004 made on a Sony Point and Shoot. Share yours!

[bright granite]

these are from the first time i ever remember using a camera, edited them in lightroom with zero knowledge and they're taken with my dads 5D2 and a 100mm mark L, so safe to say i was very privileged

[frozen isle]

I took this on my canon powershot SX530HS, on my first day of using it in its makeshift sort of manual mode and this is 1000% the shot that got me hooked on photography

my first memorable shot on my d3400 with my 70-300

[plucky forum]

Damn y’all started out with amazing camera as

[gusty elm]

I didn't xd

[frozen isle]

same

[modern thicket]

Lemme find my first pic one sec

[gilded needle]

Dis 1

[modern thicket]

First pic I can find on my camera roll. This was taken on my something something coolpix from 2005

[blazing bough]

The first picture I was really happy with ^

[errant raptor]

first photo i considered "good" on a borrowed rebel xsi

[short tusk]

A picture of a dog I took on a Olympus X-915

[gilded needle]

He happi

[ruby pivot]

I took a photography class when I was 14 but I lost all those pictures, this set of pictures is from when I first revisited the hobby 3 years later with my brothers camera in NYC and ever since then I fell back in love with photography

[elder brook]

This is from basically the first time I used a camera that wasn't my phone! Shot summer of 2018 on a Fuji X100S (I think). The rest of the photos from this trip were pretty damn bad this is the only okay one haha

[jolly sand]

So, my uncle gave me a camera, and I took lots of pictures with it but I don't have most of them, this is the first photo on a camera that wasn't my phone that I still have(camera used was a Nikon D7100, shot February 2022)

[lusty apex]

ya wanna see something old?

THIS

was taken on a DSi camera

[stiff elm]

Shot on a Praktica LB with a 50mm f/2.8, on Superia 400 and developed at the local drugstore. First ever real artistic shots on a dedicated camera, back in 2014

[gusty elm]

Love Prakticas I've used a couple MTL5s when I was in photography school 🙂

[gusty elm]

haha

[chrome kindle]

the first two were my first with a dslr, rest are even older, I still have my oldest photos which would be more accurate but I think they are all film, id need to go find them again

I got into wildlife stuff with my sx160

[rancid igloo]

My first picture:)

[honest minnow]

From my first outing with my first DSLR 🙂

[brazen garnet]

One of my first ever shots; VTOL plane. Quite nerdy.

from 1975 or 1976?

[brazen garnet]

Agfa instamatic (126er 😂 )

[mellow linden]

MY first mpic

[honest minnow]

Image with my first camera, a very cheap camcorder I ended up with in 2012. I thought lens flares were cool

[hearty hamlet]

First photo with my moms iPhone 6S I don’t even know how long ago 💀💀

[modern thicket]

The exposure, my lawd

[hearty hamlet]

My second photo is way worse

[modern thicket]

[hearty hamlet]

What is that ocean my guy

💀💀

[modern thicket]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

[frozen scroll]

We don’t talk about this 💀

But this was the first with my camera, still not great but better

[frozen isle]

nice haircut

[frozen scroll]

That isn’t me just some random dude 💀

He does have a good haircut tho

[kindred yarrow]

My first picture with my camera is this bee

[still kindle]

A re edit of my first photo with my camera

[sonic urchin]

i still haven’t gotten the shot that has hooked me but i keep trying

it’s either because my max focal length is only 200mm and or because i’m still figuring out what mode to use

[frozen isle]

you’ll def get the shot. if you need help understanding modes lemme know

[sonic urchin]

i think i get them it’s just is a lot to decide on idk

i appreciate it tho

[short tusk]

My first photo with my camera was the wall.

[sonic urchin]

i say i haven’t had my shot yet but this could be it

[frozen isle]

images like this one are ones that make me want to go out and get the same framing but better. like with the bird looking right at you.

like it’s a good photo that has lots of potential to turn into an excellent photo if you know what you are after

[sonic urchin]

yup

but it wouldnt look at me no matter how hard i tried

[frozen isle]

that’s how it is

its crazy

i will have birds act like im not 250x their size than when i go get my camera they dont want me within a mile radius

[sonic urchin]

correction, looked but wouldnt chirp. horrible editing i need to fix it but i dont feel like it rn

[frozen isle]

reduce the blacks or tweak the shadows i suppose

[sonic urchin]

yeah

shadows

[frozen isle]

even contrast adjustment can makw a good impact on it

what post processing software are you using

[sonic urchin]

dude i had a bird fly into the birdhouse and istg whenever i would point the camera at it, it would go back inside the house

lightroom classic

[frozen isle]

idk if classic has the masking tools that regular lightroom does

[sonic urchin]

it does

u use lightroom cc?

[frozen isle]

subject masking?

[sonic urchin]

i dont because i dont like adobe cloud for some reason

yes

[frozen isle]

nah i use the normal modern LR

[sonic urchin]

thats lightroom creative cloud

[frozen isle]

could be extremely helpful on that photo

[sonic urchin]

lightroom cc

lightroom

[frozen isle]

ah

adobe is holding me hostage

so

next option is crash a plane into their headquarters

[sonic urchin]

its a really good price for us highschool students tho

$20/m

good price imo

at my school i get it for free too

all of it

[frozen isle]

my school barely has working laptops

[sonic urchin]

should get it for free with the ridiculous price you pay to get into the school

we have to buy our own macbooks for my school

this is my first year in private school though

im taking a year long photography class

[frozen isle]

i took a photography course

[sonic urchin]

they have their own cameras which im assuming is bettter than my d3200, but i just wanted one of my own tbh

[frozen isle]

dropped out of it in two weeks

[frozen isle]

always good to have your own equipment

[sonic urchin]

this isnt meant for this forum but is this a good photo?

[frozen isle]

could be more tac sharp but other than that i avoid critiques on genres of photos i don’t really do, as im not well practiced in it

[sonic urchin]

yeah

wonder what genre this is

tomorrow im going wildlife shooting, i thnk im going to try out shutter priority, is that a good idea?

maybe manual or aperture

cant decide

[frozen isle]

it would fall under product photography, than some sub genre for out of the studio product photography

[frozen isle]

id take it as time to experiment with the modes. learn how manual works (YT tutorials highly recommended) and how each mode works, how it works for the task at hand.

[sonic urchin]

yeah i think im good with manual i used it all day for a couple days and watched many vids

i’ve heard by other wildlife photographers that shutter priority is the best

honestly i might go manual with auto iso. in wildlife capturing the subject not blurry is just as important as the background being blurred

i just don’t know if can capture moving subjects with my slow af anyways, so it might not matter

manual mode with auto iso max iso set to the highest iso on the camera so it adapts to the shutter speed you need for the shot

[frozen isle]

i shoot manual/w iso, just make sure you know how exposure comp works

[frozen scroll]

Depending on the day I’ll shoot auto with iso, the targets I shoot approach at 50 mph so it’s hard to use manual

I’m practicing it though

sometimes if it’s clouds in and out I’ll use auto

[grim sigil]

this is the photo that got me into photography.

[frozen scroll]

This is what convinced me to buy a camera

Vs my shot of it, at the same time 💀

The P I X L E S

[brazen garnet]

first plane above 🙂 now first car, from daddy ilford.

[nova escarp]

@tiny bloom wow. Looks niceeeee

[cobalt pasture]

My first Nikon D5200 photos

[cobalt pasture]

First holidays with Nikon L27 in 2016

[honest minnow]

Please do not share raw files, please export to a viewable file format

[frozen isle]

embeds malware into downloadable raw

[vernal nebula]

2021 - Cannon rebel SL3 “ first in had experience with a camera as well as editing. 🙂

[sinful maple]

this was one of my first photos