Attention New Owners

[Jon, The Elder]

As the holidays approach:

For those of you getting NEW cameras and gear for Christmas/holidays.

Don't forget that there are certain shots YOU MUST TAKE !!

This applies to the Northern Hemisphere. For Southern Hemisphere, add green grass, waves, and Bikinis/Thongs etc.

1) Dark, out of focus, shot of a room in your home (no flash).

2) Dark, out of focus, shot of a room in your home (with flash).

3) As above but with child/pet running toward you.

4) Photo TOO soft.

5) Shot of mandatory "Squirrel-on-a-branch"

6) Shot of mandatory "Bird-on-a-branch/wire"

7) Your car/truck in the driveway

Drunken friend on Snowmobile

What did I forget ??



Happy Holidays !!



Jon F.

[cmM]

yup, pretty much complete... dog in Santa Clause suit has already been done :)

[RogCincy]

Picture of self close up while trying to figure out why the flash doesn't work and you end up blinding yourself.......

[Mark Kemp]

What about an aged relative who wears glasses, so that you can get a reflection of the flash in each lens of the glasses.

[Cadwell]

What did I forget ??



:rolleyes: The DUCK shot... How could you forget the duck shot? :rolleyes:

[Meerkat17]

How about the obligatory "Fence Post" or The "Wristwatch Face Shot!" or you're "Own Eyeball!"

LOL
Cheers
David

[defordphoto]

What did I forget ??


Mandatory shot of a duck.

Log onto every photo forum asking:

"What lens do I choose?"

[mackb]

Picture of self close up while trying to figure out why the flash doesn't work and you end up blinding yourself.......

lol.............

[mackb]

Pictures of niece and nephew taken at least a minuet apart (because they want to see the picture on the LCD).

[Jon]

Photo of new camera
Pic of high-contrast, finely-detailed, backlit subject so you can gripe about the terrible purple fringing that "my old brand-x never had".

[quickben]

A photo of your spouse/partner's bum, then a photo of them in mid-swearword holding their hands infront of their face.

Done it with my Nikon CoolPix 775, then my Olympus 700uz, then my Canon A60, then my Canon G5 and, ofcourse, the 10D.

[defordphoto]

Photo of self in mirror, shooting self in mirror.

[quickben]

Pictures of distant car registration plates after purchasing a really long lens.

(Oly C-700uz, then 100-400 on 10D)

Gary.

[pradeep1]

Picture of your foot, taken as a zoom test.
Macro photo of your hand.

[ssim]

I'm glad to see we got the duck covered. I read through the first few posts and thought, wow, I can't believe they forgot that.

Don't forget the back end of a deer or really any other wild animal. In captivity is fine too.

[rkoshy]

random shots of trees -- of which none have leaves...
overcast, grey skies...
frozen dead insects...
nice barbeque grill -- all wrapped up...

And all those other nice things that make it worth living in the northeast... argh...I think I need to move to the tropics. Nothing colorful or cheerful around here to snap away... except for my daughters.

[ilya]

Cat?

That's all I wanted to write, but then I got this error message (whatever happened to the value of brevity ...)

The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters

[Tom W]

Rulers ..... there's got to be a few shots of rulers.

[IanD]

:rolleyes: The DUCK shot... How could you forget the duck shot? :rolleyes: I thank you kind Sir for pointing out this very important fact. One might try ones best to capture the south end of said duck heading north:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[sparker1]

Sunsets, you gotta do sunsets. And waterfalls, preferably in front of a sunset.

[mattchase]

Christmas lights.

Christmas tree.

Cat climbing christmas tree.

Cat knocking fragile glass ornaments out of christmas tree while young children roll on the floor laughing at you trying to catch each ornament while trying take pictures of cat knocking ornaments out of tree.

Cat jumping out of tree at your face for taking away all it's ornaments to play with.

Ceiling of emergency room as you are being bandaged up.

Cat standing outside sliding glass door, never to be let inside again.


I'm not speaking from personal experience. No, really. :)

[merrrrjig]

Im confused, but whatever its surly not winter here!