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Erm, I think mine was a water drop attempt! Jump in at the deep end so to say
 
Mine was a woman.
Hadnt got a clue what I was doing ... took my brand new DSLR, clicked it in manual but basically pointed & shot.
I then salvaged what I could by feeling my way around my also newly acquired Photoshop!
Been doing pretty much the same ever since! :lol:
 
A floor - or at least joists over the hole where the floor should have been :lol: :lol:
 
mine was out of focus carpet, as I pressed the shutter by mistake :p

Then I think it was a picture of the sitting room, then maybe some flowers outside I think :p
 
Canon 40D + Grip, 17-40 F4L, 70-200 F4L, Canon 50 1.8, Sigma 10-20, Canon 350D + Grip and kit lens, Canon IXUS 75

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Surely you didn't get all that lot for Christmas!!
 
My Dad, in automatic and it took about 2 mths before I moved the dial
 
phototutor said:
Canon 40D + Grip, 17-40 F4L, 70-200 F4L, Canon 50 1.8, Sigma 10-20, Canon 350D + Grip and kit lens, Canon IXUS 75

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Surely you didn't get all that lot for Christmas!!
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Ah! I actually thought that the 'You got a new camera for Christmas' bit was theoretical.

I didnt get mine this Christmas either! :$ :exit:
 
Billy,
I was just curious. Many of my students are complete beginners who have bought, or have been given a new camera. Quite naturally they can't wait to start taking photographs as soon as the camera is out of its box. To hell with the instruction manual, they start snapping straight away. I have actually seen one or two good photographs that have been captured this way. Luck? Yes, 99.9% of the time. But I'm beginning to think that some of these pictures might be the result of a complete lack of inhibition about the need for sound camera craft.
Like I say, I was just curious.
...and anyone who claims never to have photographed the inside of a lens cap is telling porkies!!
Philip
www.philipdunn.blogspot.com
www.photoactive.co.uk
 
phototutor said:
...and anyone who claims never to have photographed the inside of a lens cap is telling porkies!!
Philip
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Erm.... no I havent .... honest!!! :p
But you can bet your life when in public Ive more than once raised my camera to my eye complete with said lens cap attached! :D

I think youre right you know ... about the inhibition thing.
My first picture wasnt just pointed at any woman. It was my brothers g'friend, dressed/made-up by me to look like a 30's movie star .... and it was for a competition!
Thats how uninhibited and ignorant of my lack of skills back then.

Its odd that over the last year, Ive developed my eye, but not my practical/technical ability through lack of time, models, & space.
And now I have a few wannabe models approach me ... and Im nervous as a kitten about pointing the camera at them!
 
My hubby then the cat then the dog. Deleted all but somehow wish I hadn't.
 
phototutor said:
Billy,...and anyone who claims never to have photographed the inside of a lens cap is telling porkies!!
www.photoactive.co.uk
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Nope, never done that the old P&S would not let you, and I've been handling my current one as if its made of glass :lol:

Taking it out for a walk this afternoon and having sad that no doubt the first thing I will do is get that exact shot!!
 
I've taken a snap of the back of the lens cap on all my dslr's :shrug:

It's the best way of checking a new camera for stuck pixels on the sensor and the lcd :D

And on my last meet at Chester zoo I witnessed a guy with a top end dslr rattle off at least 10 frames of the spectacle bears with the lens cap still ON.....If I hadn't have been chuckling so much, I'd have grabbed a pic of it :D
 
After getting my first SLR, an Olympus OM10, (yes I know it was a long time ago) anyway I was composing myself for a shot on a very dull day and was being observed closely by a tog that looked like he knew more than me........he obviously did because he did not point out to me that I had the flash on back to front !!:$:exit:
 
I didnt get my camera for christmas either but my first few pics were my living room, my house and a duck :)
 
It's a tradition; the first picture with any new body is of the dog :thumbs:
Never ever photographed the rear of a lens cap :nono:
 
Forbiddenbiker said:
No, no, Tradition for the first good shot is always a swan or a squirrel...

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Thats where I have been going wrong then, swan was 3 hundred and odd in, and no squirrels at all yet, will have to go and play hunt the squirrel today :lol:
 
I was feeling a bit left out so:

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can't see why anyone bothers, its a bit of a boring subject!
 
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