It's funny - I was always geared towards photography. Or at least from a very early age. I like to think of the start being when I got a DSLR as a teenager, but really, I was doing all sorts of nonsense with cameras at 7 years old too. I don't know if I chose it, or it chose me, but there was an organic synergy between me and the little boxes that transmitted images.
Your comments about video make me think about my ideas about going into filmmaking and remind me that I definitely should not have. I'm too meticulous with stills, I cannot imagine how obnoxious and vexing I'd become if the stills could move...
Obviously cameras played a big role in my childhood and I was interested in them but at no point did I think i wanted to be a photographer. Least till teen years and the idea of a Playboy Photographer looked pretty good. haha.
Also, I feel like you kinda came up in the revival of photography. The flickr age on through into instagram. It was much more culturally desirable.
That's an interesting and good point about there being a 'revival of photography' of sorts in the late 2000s/early 2010s which is when I started out. I was also embedded within the first film revival... and the street photography revival thanks to Vivian Maier. Man, I really am a product of my time. I miss Flickr, though.
That's interesting that you never really thought about being a photographer despite cameras playing a big role early on. Maybe I was the same in that regard, but also what 7 year old is thinking about being Ansel Adams? That usually comes later.
It's funny - I was always geared towards photography. Or at least from a very early age. I like to think of the start being when I got a DSLR as a teenager, but really, I was doing all sorts of nonsense with cameras at 7 years old too. I don't know if I chose it, or it chose me, but there was an organic synergy between me and the little boxes that transmitted images.
Your comments about video make me think about my ideas about going into filmmaking and remind me that I definitely should not have. I'm too meticulous with stills, I cannot imagine how obnoxious and vexing I'd become if the stills could move...
Obviously cameras played a big role in my childhood and I was interested in them but at no point did I think i wanted to be a photographer. Least till teen years and the idea of a Playboy Photographer looked pretty good. haha.
Also, I feel like you kinda came up in the revival of photography. The flickr age on through into instagram. It was much more culturally desirable.
Playboy Photographer haha.
That's an interesting and good point about there being a 'revival of photography' of sorts in the late 2000s/early 2010s which is when I started out. I was also embedded within the first film revival... and the street photography revival thanks to Vivian Maier. Man, I really am a product of my time. I miss Flickr, though.
That's interesting that you never really thought about being a photographer despite cameras playing a big role early on. Maybe I was the same in that regard, but also what 7 year old is thinking about being Ansel Adams? That usually comes later.