I got a new camera

A few weeks ago, I got a new camera.

Wow.

I didn't deserve it. I didn't expect it. In fact, I had been purposely puiting off getting a new camera out of my mind until I learned to master the camera that I had.

But Michael came home and surprised me with it.

And wow.

Of course, in my limited creativity, I seem to have a limited subject matter.



But I don't know who really minds that.

This was done in automatic, so the focus and what-not is not by my doing (it was my first day with it!), but I do like the composition. The light is good and I can't beat both subjects :). I like Michael Sr's expression.

I have noticed even from the day I have gotten it until now, there is improvement in my photography.

It's not anywhere near great, or even mediocre. Still downright amateur.

But it's fun to learn, and look at my pictures and figure out how they could be better, and what I feel like I did right.


I will be hopefully including you in the learning process, but it takes time, so no guarantees I will have a ton of posts. I mean, just loading the pictures and going through them, looking at the ones I like, and deleting the ones that were a bust took me a long time tonight...but I will do my best.


Most of the time, I am just in full-on automatic, but I am starting to experiment with aperture, shutter speed, etc.

I like this one a lot. I am happy with the composition, and I like how Michael is in focus, but the equipment isn't. And i even like that there is a guy in the background. I don't know why. I'm happy there is stuff going on: the cart, the baby, the equipment, and then the sky and grass in the way back. This one was full-on manual setting of aperture and exposure. It was easy because he wasn't moving around much, and there was lots of light.

Even though his smile is funny, again, I like the different "depths." Michael's face is in focus, but the branch in front of him is not. It's a little overcast, so I guess the color isn't as "warm" but it's still a good shot for not being processed and being manual.

I really like it.