The beginning

It all started with my brother and my uncle back when I was like 6 or so…they both were taking pictures with some old film cameras and developed them in our second bathroom, I was fascinated about how a piece of plastic roll was being put in a cup and stirred together with a chemical solution after which they put it on a projector thingy and projected the image on a piece of paper which they put thru some trays of other chemical solution…and notice how image was starting to show up on the paper…it’s something that you cannot understand at that age, but keeps you wondering…

When I grew up a bit I got the camera from my uncle…it was a piece of jewelry compared to what others had…i know for sure it was a SMENA(sovietic camera),quite rudimentary…a fixed lens film camera, so i started to take pictures, my uncle taught me somewhat how it works…he said “when the light is strong you put this at this value,when it’s low at this value…you don’t need to touch this one.” I now know he was talking about aperture and shutter speed…I suppose the aperture was set at a fixed value and he told me not to touch it…and for low light set shutter speed to slow, for strong light to fast.Too bad he didn’t explain to me how, what and why, guess I would’ve been a lot wiser now…