What was the 1st pic. you tok with your DSLR?

[stckciv]

Wondering what you did when when you first got your camera, what you shot, where you went, etc.

I bought my 350D from a friend at 11:30 at night heading out to shoot pictures of the Bullrun (similar to the Cannonball) that was going through town. My first pic. was of Dennis Rodmans Lambo. that showed dents in the side when someone ran into him.

[Justin Horne]

Some flowers on the table. Why? Because that was the first thing I saw when I held up the camera for the first time! :)

[BobL]

Perhaps boringly I took a series of lens test/target shots in the store with my own CF card. Then I went home and processed/checked them out using Imatest. All being good I went back to the store and did a deal.

Then when I went and took this.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=88985

[CyberPet]

Sleeping husband (who got tired of me reading the manual and anxiously awaiting the battery to charge). Didn't notice it was set to the green one, so the flash fired. So this is the first one I took. :D

http://www.bazazz.com/pics/IMG_0001.jpg

[toddb]

You mean after the one you take with the lens cap on, lol? This looks like my first shot after I got my 10D home 2 years ago. The reason for the camera was to take pictures of my daughter so this is probably pretty appropriate first shot. :-) I think I've improved not getting huge things in the way like that table corner. :-P

http://pws.cablespeed.com/~toddb/forumpost/Aug/IMG_0001.jpg

[insomnia]

Blurry and out of focus.

[Eagle]

!st pic was the of the box it came in. Them my dog.

[MTalley]

My living room as seen from the dining room table. Put everything together at the dining room table, turned it on (set to the green rectangle mode), hit the shutter, the flash popped up and I got a very uninteresting photo of my living room. :D

Fortunately, it's all gone uphill from there (generally). Statistically speaking, I've had my 300D for exactly 100 days now and have clicked off 4,167 frames.

[aam1234]

Statistically speaking, I've had my 300D for exactly 100 days now and have clicked off 4,167 frames.

Wow, are you trying to make a movie :D

[MTalley]

Wow, are you trying to make a movie :D

Seems that way sometimes. I did a car show and a ballet over the last weekend and almost 1,000 frames were from those two events. A few hundred were from several portrait shoots. The rest are just leisure activities. ;)

As a point of comparison, I took 8,800 frames on my point and shoot camera over the course of a little over two years.

[the.digital.guy]

My Cat

[Claire]

I think it was a crocus. :) The first week I mainly took nature and flower photos, then I finally got to try the camera out properly during a dance contest. The dance photos were the first shots I posted on POTN. :)

[Lotto]

Single shot of the wall with my new 20D. Then the next 30 shots were the same wall in one continuous burst. Wow, that was most exciting 6-7 secs of my life:D

[aam1234]

Single shot of the wall with my new 20D. Then the next 30 shots were the same wall in one continuous burst.

Ha ha, I did something similar.

[aam1234]

opps, double post.

[martook]

Wow, that was most exciting 6-7 secs of my life:D

Man... that's pretty sad. :lol:

[ryno4youth]

I think that first picture that I took was of the inside of the body cap. I will have to see if I kept the picture. ;)

[mijbril]

Mine was delivered to me at school (safer mailing address) & it was somewhat hard to concentrate on the class until the next break. I powered up the battery though, slapped on the kit lens, alas it was raining (sigh) & so because my class mates did not want to be photographed (yet, LOL, they have since just accepted that the camera is an extension of me & even if I don't use it, I will have it with me), I shot my pen tip sitting on my dictionary :D

I didn't bother with anything in the way of settings. Just a flick through the manual while the battery was charging & re ISO, white balance etc... my thought was "who cares?? I'll focus on what I want & let the devil sort out the rest"

http://vexie.cjb.net/albums/Mijs-Home/Pen_tip_1.jpg

[RockSlut]

My gorgeous girlfriend, who didn't try and talk me out of it when we went to the local camera dealer and I held the 20D for the first time. She convinced me that buying what I so desperately wanted was not a bad thing.
http://www.rocksluts.net.au/images/potd/feb05/IMG_2171_e.jpg

[GSHodg]

...about 6 identical shots of the wall before I lifted my finger of the shutter release. :) The 20D really is fast!

[Maureen Souza]

This has been asked before; answer- My grandson whom I tossed up on the kitchen table and used the kit lens.

[mijbril]

My gorgeous girlfriend, who didn't try and talk me out of it when we went to the local camera dealer and I held the 20D for the first time. She convinced me that buying what I so desperately wanted was not a bad thing.

When you get a girlfriend like that, she has to be a keeper. You can't really put a price on that sort of support :D And she takes a nice picture too :)

[Jon]

Either the bookcase across from the couch in the den or one of the dogs, I forget. Probably the bookcase - if it had been one of the dogs I would have saved it. Same thing with both the D60 and the 20D.