Your First Photo of a Slipjoint

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waverave

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One thing I have always appreciated about the Porch is the wide variety of styles and compositions of the photos posted. As has been pointed out before (the basis for some GAWs in fact), many of you have created a very distinctive look to your photos using different backgrounds, props, angles, filters, etc.
I know my style has evolved a lot over time and it made me think...what did my first photos look like? So I went back through my phone and found the very first photo I took of a slipjoint. This particular S&M was the result of looking for a coke bottle spear point in a USA made package...my first introduction to the Porch and I wanted to show it off.
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My second photo...and first attempt to make it look cool. I had a lot to learn about composition, lighting, angles, etc. :D
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Anyway, I would love to see some of your first or very early photos where you hadn't quite honed your craft yet. I know many of you simply by your photos and could pick them out of a bunch...it would be cool to see your first.
 
I believe this my first one:
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Great idea for a thread, Darren, although somewhat humbling. My first knife photos were from almost 10 years ago, and back then there was much less emphasis placed on the photography here on BFC. In looking back, it seems I was pretty lazy and lackadaisical about my pics, as most of the early ones were taken indoors with a flash. The first one I still have was this H&R skinner (my knife direction was primarily as a hunter), and the lighting was pretty bad. At least it was in focus, and the horn looks good.

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Just a month later I took this one of a Schatt & Morgan daddy barlow, again with a hunting theme. A little better this time.

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I decided from the outset to make the knives the stars, and not the photography. I'll take a composed "artsy" shot once in a while, but usually just the knife or knives as clearly and accurately as I can. I just took this one today . . . quite a difference.

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black mamba said:
Great idea for a thread, Darren, although somewhat humbling. My first knife photos were from almost 10 years ago, and back then there was much less emphasis placed on the photography here on BFC. In looking back, it seems I was pretty lazy and lackadaisical about my pics, as most of the early ones were taken indoors with a flash. The first one I still have was this H&R skinner (my knife direction was primarily as a hunter), and the lighting was pretty bad. At least it was in focus, and the horn looks good.

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Just a month later I took this one of a Schatt & Morgan daddy barlow, again with a hunting theme. A little better this time.

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I decided from the outset to make the knives the stars, and not the photography. I'll take a composed "artsy" shot once in a while, but usually just the knife or knives as clearly and accurately as I can. I just took this one today . . . quite a difference.

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Definitely humbling but I think we can all laugh at ourselves :) I think what I try to capture in my photos...as you display expertly in yours...are the qualities of the knife I am trying to highlight. For example, the jigging or the color or the subtle pores in wood handles.
 
Cool idea for a thread, Darren.

I remember that I didn't own a digital camera until I joined some knife forums. One of which was shut down several years ago. I remember thinking how cool it would be to post photos of my knives like everybody else does. I bought a digital camera in April, 2009 for that very reason and I still use it for my knife photos today (I don't own a smart phone).

This photo is dated 4/10/09 and I believe it's the very first photo that I took of a knife.

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OK, Darren, you asked for it! :rolleyes::D Here are the first knife photos I ever took, on August 22, 2014, about a month after I officially joined BF. The subject is my first ever pocket knife, a Colonial Forest-Master I got about 1960. I taped the knife to the front of my "day-planner" and held it in front of the camera built into my MacBook. I think I actually posted the second of these on BF! :eek:
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Less than 2 weeks later (9/3/14), here's the Forest-Master captured on the kitchen table by my wife's iPad:
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About a month later (11/4/14), I used a digital point&shoot to take this:
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Not much change since then. :D

- GT
 
I’m not sure about the first one Darren, but this was certainly one of the earliest. Notice the spectacular brown, on brown, on brown construction, and expertly placed shadow.

My pics still aren’t that great because they are mostly iPhone at a few indoor spots. The better ones are when I can get out hiking.

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This is the earliest I could find, and I had to dig through my old Photobucket account that I haven't used in a couple years. Surprisingly my password was still saved :eek:

And here's a recent slipjoint photo I'm pleased with

I'm not sure I've improved much on my quality of photos, but I've certainly been a bit more creative with them at times over simply just holding the knife and taking the picture every time as I used to do.
 
Great idea for a thread, Darren! I’ll play. :)

This photo was one of a few I took on February 24, 2016 shortly after joining BF:

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That was my first pic of a traditional slipjoint, at least where the knife was the point of the picture, but my first photo of a traditional folder for that purpose was December 12, 2015:

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You can probably guess from the photos what brought me to traditional folders and the Porch. ;)
 
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