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<blockquote data-quote="crewchief227" data-source="post: 368474" data-attributes="member: 33158"><p>My grandpa was a photographer and I was always around cameras of his growing up in the early 80's.&nbsp; I remember he had a large format camera among a few other awesome cameras.&nbsp; My Mom still has some of them and she uses them as decoration around her house.&nbsp; Anyways, it was about 10 years ago now that I got what I thought was my first good camera.&nbsp; It was a large coolpix I think that kind of looked like a mini SLR and I remember I thought it was so cool and had a whooping 3mp and I paid like $600 at the time.&nbsp; I always had an appreciation for photography and I used it as a tool to take photos for references for my art career, but now I stepped up to a D7100 as I wanted to take better pics then what I was getting with a point and shoot and now I am seeing photography as an art in itself as well as a means for me to create art.&nbsp; So I am still learning, but I am shooting on manual 100% of the time and while I may not get it right every time the first time I am to the point that I just have to bump the ISO or up the power on my speed light and I am happy with the results. I will tell you one thing though this is a very expensive hobby, or can be shall I say.&nbsp; I am used to buying the top of the line airbrush and that's only $600 for the very best vs $6000 with photography.&nbsp; Although just like art it can pay you back if you get good enough LOL</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="crewchief227, post: 368474, member: 33158"] My grandpa was a photographer and I was always around cameras of his growing up in the early 80's. I remember he had a large format camera among a few other awesome cameras. My Mom still has some of them and she uses them as decoration around her house. Anyways, it was about 10 years ago now that I got what I thought was my first good camera. It was a large coolpix I think that kind of looked like a mini SLR and I remember I thought it was so cool and had a whooping 3mp and I paid like $600 at the time. I always had an appreciation for photography and I used it as a tool to take photos for references for my art career, but now I stepped up to a D7100 as I wanted to take better pics then what I was getting with a point and shoot and now I am seeing photography as an art in itself as well as a means for me to create art. So I am still learning, but I am shooting on manual 100% of the time and while I may not get it right every time the first time I am to the point that I just have to bump the ISO or up the power on my speed light and I am happy with the results. I will tell you one thing though this is a very expensive hobby, or can be shall I say. I am used to buying the top of the line airbrush and that's only $600 for the very best vs $6000 with photography. Although just like art it can pay you back if you get good enough LOL [/QUOTE]

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