Say Cheese!

I wanted to share some of the pictures I took this weekend. For my birthday, my husband and girls got me THIS new lens for my camera. This Saturday, after church I played a little with it. The girls were not really in the mood for a photo shoot so it only lasted about 5 minutes but look at the pictures!

This lens is incredible! It is what they call a Prime Lens or Fixed Lens. That means you cannot zoom you have to actually move and compose your shot in the viewfinder. It takes a lot of getting used to not being able to zoom, but I think I love it!

These are straight out of the camera.  I shot them in AV (Aperture Mode), left the focus in automatic and did not adjust anything else. I am pretty happy with how they turned out.

I then decided to try to play with the f-number. The smaller the number the shallower the depth of field and results in that nice blurry background while the subject is clear. Look at the difference between the two pictures. The top one is with a higher f-number and the bottom one with the lower one.

I was so excited to figure it out! Unfortunately, my darling subjects decided I had taken enough shots and stopped cooperating, so I was not able to keep experimenting.  Maybe next time!