Did you learn/pick up photography from books?
Nikon Shooter wrote: In the days, there were no books....
Today we learn that Nikon Shooter is thousands of years old.
I think you would be surprised by the number of people that are self taught. You would also be surprised by the number of folks that have not been doing photography for long. Some of the top YouTube photographers that are very good have only been at it for a couple/few years.
Let's limit the damage to 200 years, maybe?Troponin wrote: Today we learn that Nikon Shooter is thousands of years old.
KCook wrote: Well I started fooling around with cameras in the '50s and there were plenty of books!Kelly
For once I took on me to answer a thread alone… my daughter
is laughing all the way… "I know what you meant to say but that
was not the way to do it!" … obviously as I read your replies.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
Back in the '60s [yes at least 200 yrs ago] when I started to become 35mm camera serious, I read & vacuumed information from magazines, camera club mentors, and then college studies & tutorials. I still have on my bookshelf several of the text books from those days!!
Back in the mid-70s when I was invited to join the local adult-ed college to tutor 'photographic techniques' I started to produce student course notes, which over the years morphed into 160-page books on 'how-to' that now filter their way around the world, not just across Oz
It means now that others can benefit from my 'vacuuming'
Phil from the great land Downunder
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