The first picture? What's yours?

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So you get a new camera, put the battery in the charger, load the software into the computer, look at the interweb for stuff about the camera, and.......... the battery is charged!!

Plug the battery in, switch to some auto mode, and the first picture taken is??


Well. for me it's usually the computer keyboard :eek:
 
My son
 
Depends what lens is to hand. If it's a telephoto, it'll probably be the label on the garden bench but most other things get pointed at the cat!
 
The view out of the dining room window, if I want to look at shallow DoF it'll be an arrangement of handy objects on the dining room table.
 
DG Phototraining said:
The house opposite - I then zoom in to 100% to check how the bricks look as I scroll from side to side, up & down, though really this is more of a lens test I do than the camera :)

Dave
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I used to use an old calendar to do my quick lens test but it got so old I had to bin it in the end.
 
Mintchocs said:
I used to use an old calendar to do my quick lens test but it got so old I had to bin it in the end.
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Thankfully the house opposite is only 16 years old, so they'd be really miffed if I 'binned' it so early in its life :D

Dave
 
Chris Frost on YouTube photographs the house opposite as well for his lens test. It must be the most photographed house apart from Buckingham Palace.
 
I've only "broken in" two digital cameras - both actually Sue's. The first photo on one was a tree in the local park, the other Sue in the hotel room (the camera was bought at The Photography Show. The first photo I took with my first 5x4 camera was of a tree, and my first photo ever (but not the first for the camera) was of a hedge. I think I see a theme here...
 
Daves brick test is one I use plus which ever dogs asleep. No new lenses for a while as my photography has been nearly non existent(except for countless shots of the grandsons) but hoping to get back to it soon when I have more spare time and a new/used lens could help a little.
 
Normally a lens standing around or a lens cap. Failing that, anything with texture to "check the focus"..
 
a bottle of washing up liquid in the kitchen. not sure why though!
 
My companion and best friend a Golden Labrador called Dabley :)
 
My dogs :)
 
This is the very first picture, I took with my 5D III


Heidelberg
 
I'd just go for a photographic walk in the garden.
 
I have a new-to-me ultra wide angle lens coming in the next few days so will obviously have to take a picture of one of my daughters as wide and close as possible to see if her looks improve and then post it on Facebook to humiliate her. No other option.
 
First photo I took with my most recent camera, was of me the missus the cat and the dog. I set it up on a tripod. Pretty good photo, considering it was the first one, with a new camera I was not familiar with.
First photo I ever took with my new 35mm 1.8G lens, was of the inside of a Jessops shop I was buying it from. Gives me a strange feeling looking back at the photo now, knowing the shop and staff are no longer there.
 
Haven't a clue, really. I've bought a few cameras - film and digital - but not that many and I don't have any particular 'test' for them. I just take a few shots of whatever looks 'interesting' at the time, to make sure that all the basics are working properly.
 
Yep, I'm with the feet guys, Bonus points for some sufficiently sporty socks so I can marvel at the sharpness of the threads and bobbles..!
 
Almost always the cat. However I had a change this week when I bought a 7D and a Sigma 105mm Macro and they arrived on the same day. So water droplets on blades of grass outside was the subject of the first picture. Crazy!
 
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