My first camera was a brownie camera. A big black box with one lens that was nearly impossible to hold steady because the button was on the side. You push the button, and the camera moved. I had my first lessons in what I needed to do to create a good picture, like hold your breath, steady yourself against a tree, wall, or building. You know those rules. No? Stick around, you’ll hear a few.
I was 11 years old. The following year, I took a class in Continue reading »
Back in Graduate School, I started earning extra money tutoring high school physics, chemistry and math a couple evenings a week. For the time, it was fairly lucrative because I could earn $15 to $20 an hour, where the norms was under $5 an hour (hey, it was the 70′s). I had earned enough money for living expenses during the day either teaching or in the research lab, so I saved up my tutoring money to buy “luxuries” such as a nice camera outfit. The Canon AE-1 was just out and became all the rage, with that AE mode. That built in metering and computer control brought taking pictures to the masses.
I bought an AE-1 a nice Tokina 35-105 mm zoom lens. I really learned photography when I took the Continue reading »