Hi, From just(ish) outside London

[StevenH72]

Hi Guys,

I first got into shooting film photography about a year ago, a friend sold me a Lomo LC-A+, I had great fun with it for about 4 months, but quickly yearned for "more".

I purchased an Asahi Pentax k1000 body and a Pentax SMC M 50mm f1.7 lens, and have been trying to learn ever since (with varying degrees of success).

My opinions/ thoughts (at present) are sadly driven by ignornace (due to a lack of knowledge/ experience). I have never extensively shot with digital photography as it never appealed to me. I was drawn in by the grain of Film photos, and their general "warmth", I never got excited by a digital photo (probably due to a lack of exposure to decent photography), but when I saw a friends photos taken with old SLR (not sure which), it was the first time I really became enthusiastic about photography and has created a "monster" which I'm sure will run catastrophically out of control and my knowledge base grows.

Anyway enough of my inane ramblings, I look forward to participating in this forum, and tapping into the compendium of knowledge contained here.

Steve

 

[mpirie]

Hi Steve and welcome to the forum from a former Reading resident. You are in the right place for boundless information on analogue photography!

Regards,
Mike

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

As Mike said, you are in the right place. Welcome from Melbourne, Australia, to the best analog photography website in the history of the universe.

 

[Anscojohn]

Welcome, Steven, from just (ish) outside Washington, DC.

 

[papagene]

Steven - hello and welcome to APUG from western New England.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Hello Steve and welcome to APUG. It just takes practice!

Jeff

 

[Chazzy]

Welcome, Steve. I think it's interesting that it was a Lomo that got you into film photography. I wonder how many other people have done the same thing? Anyway, welcome to APUG. I think you'll enjoy the site.

 

[ajmiller]

Hi Steve, welcome from the north of Watford.
This is a great place to learn.

- Tony

 

[Christopher Walrath]

Welcome to the forum, Steve.

 

[fotch]

Hi Steve, welcome to APUG.

 

[StevenH72]

Thanks for all the welcomes guys.

Welcome, Steve. I think it's interesting that it was a Lomo that got you into film photography. I wonder how many other people have done the same thing? Anyway, welcome to APUG. I think you'll enjoy the site.

I think for me, being new to photography, the automatic features of the LC-A was appealing, decent film photos with little effort. But after time I developed a thirst to be able to manually "manipulate" the photos.