I was just wondering now we can take lots of pictures of ourselves dressed weather in only a thong or fully dresses and make up on but we're the only ones who see it but how did crossdressers took pictures when you would have to take it to a studio to get it revealed? ( I started dressing once digital photography excisted so I just wondered how it was in the past) taking into acount that the guy from the studio would see it
lots of people take photos now, but they never see the light of day the good old photo books no longer exist.
but neither do the grainy photos of big-foot, nessie, or the ufo's.
with in 10 years you will no longer be able to buy chemical film, so real cameras will go the way of the junk drawer. just like the Polaroid did.
I can tell you, it was a real pain when I was young, having to sit perfectly still while the guy painted your portrait.... And those whalebone hoops! Ugh.
(My real answer is that I didn't take pics back then. No way was I going to risk being outed by a photo. A big 'thank you' to the folks who invented digital cameras!)
I began dressing with a film camera! I definitely hesitated before taking my pics to the local drug store to get them developed! But, I looked so BAD back then, he probably thot I was prepping for a Halloween party!
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No way! No pictures of me before Polaroid! I still have the pictures of me takin' with a polaroid while wearing a dress!
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[SIZE="2"]I learned to develop my own film in order to take (or make) my own crossdressing pictures. In this case, necessity was the mother of my photographic knowledge. These days, my enlarger is in the closet (where I used to be), and I haven’t loaded film onto reels in the dark for over five years. I even learned to develop color film, not an easy task – my avatar is one of my better efforts...
The possibilty existed for anyone since 1839 to take and process one's own pictures. granted it was cumbersome making a platinum print, but the quality was unlike anything you've seen in the digital age. Simply put, home darkrooms have been around since forever and film will be with us for some time to come. While digital is better now, there is nothing like an 8x10 color negative. Large format photography is still a viable profession and there are a number of journals devoted to it..
I started out using polaroids in the early 70's then I started doing some pro work and got my own B/W dark room set up as well.. did a lot of things developing and printing my own stuff. I wanted some color photos so I did a roll and took them to the drug store and had them sent off and developed. They would develop a lot of things that most of us would never think about. Remember most were done on a machine so people didn't look at every photo as it developed. I am sure they did a quality check and content check but that was just a quick look over the stack of photos.
All this time I had no idea that was you. I thought you were just using a GG pic that you liked!
[SIZE="2"]my avatar is one of my better efforts...
After I came "out" in 2003, I used a disposable 35mm camera for those occasions I needed a picture since my real 35mm (point and shoot type) had bit the dust. Pics were usually done at events where someone else could take them. I didn't get a digital camera until late in 2004. As for Polaroids I remember them well, my parents used one that did B&W photos in the early 70's. They got a 35mm camera later that decade.
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What is a digital camera. I use this camera that you put the film in from the back and take the photo. You remove the cap over a hole in the front. Count to three cover the hole and then take out the film from the back. Then you got to this dark room and put it in this stuff and there you go a photo is made. You young girls have it made with these new fangeled contraptions.
TO OVER WEIGHT TO POST A PHOTO, MY wife tells me I look like I am pregnant
Yep, that's the way it was but then the Betamovie camera came out and I could make actual home movies of myself dancing en femme. I felt like a pioneer of sorts, Sigh!, those were the days my friend. Now it's a helluva lot easier with the technology.
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April, you look so cute in that picture! And you still do by the way.
I never took pictures until I joined this site. Then I soon rushed out and got a digi one.
It then took about two weeks to pluck up the courage to post it on here.
But I needn’t have worried. You were all so kind to me with your coments.
I tried taking photos of myself using an SLR camera and timer. The worst part was getting your photos back and seeing
that very few, if any, were any good. I often took my photos to be developed and picked them up while en femme but not always.
Hugs, Carole
I had my own B&W darkroom as well. I sat the camera on a tripod, pointed it at a mirior, and triggerd the shutter with the bulb atachment.
I too developed my own film. I shot black and white negative film, made my own prints too, and color slide film. If I wanted prints from the slides, I took them to a local film kiosk and crossed my fingers that no one would recognize me in the photos. I also used a Polaroid camera a few times, but I didn't care for the image quality as much as 35mm film.
Carol
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I had my wife take them before I had a camera with a timer, I used to send my film to mail order developers back east, you could find them in photo mags. Then I had them done locally, but never felt comfortable so I'm another one that took up Photography, and set up my own darkroom. Then I fell in love with digital, I'm now going on my fifth generation Digital camera now, and still looking for a better one. And being able to crop and fix the photos myself has become a major part of the digital images I love to work with. It also has worked into a pretty good hobby as a male too, I've sold enough to pay for the newest camera.
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I had a home darkroom that I could use for B&W images. I shot some slides and had a mail order option to get them processed. Polaroids weren't an option since I didn't have a self-timer or a mirror that was big enough or properly positioned for good self photography. The thing that seems to be missing are those folks who had someone they could trust who would take the pictures of them. I wasn't out to anyone who could help me until well after digital cameras were common.
All that being said, I didn't know enough about how to do makeup, hair or dress to really warrant much photography in those days, so the number of images available are very small. And that's a good thing.
Sarah
Being transgender isn't a lifestyle choice. How you deal with it is.
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