Joe
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Perpetual college student, machinist and photographer.
I love film, though I shoot a majority of the time in digital, which I must say has allowed me to grow and explore in my photography. I still love film and have an expensive manual camera addiction. I've been into photography for many years, but growing up it was only something you did for family events , not my bag of tea. I bought my first camera at 17, a $6 (with two rolls of film) point and shoot from Kmart. I exhausted those two rolls of film, plus 3 more on a two week trip to Japan, shying away from my family's demands of traditional vacation photography, ie: bunch of idiots standing in front of some landmark giving a thumbs up. Instead I took to the city at dawn each morning and took pictures of the empty streets, abandoned gas stations, temples, vending machines...anything BUT people.
After that trip I laid down my camera (actually, I kept it in a toolbox that developed a leak) until last year when I took a photography class, the same enjoyment I had gained taking pictures on that trip sprung back to life and I rapidly delved into the world of photography again. The aversion to shooting people still lingered, but over time it has begun to fade, hopefully soon it will be gone.
Currently I'm shooting:
Pentax k100d
Pentak k1000
Praktica 3rd Series
Argus 75
Dollar store P&S's loaded with Tri-X and E6
On the Shelf
Brownie 120
Argus C3
Holga
Instamatics
Pentax P30 (Untested, bought for a lens)
and more I can't think of.
