First shots with the 60D

Here are the first shots with my new 60D. I used the canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens. I was still using my video picture control, so I converted them to black and white so the colors wouldn't be too off. I did find out, however, that once again my camera is newer than my software so I'll need to load up Canon's software in order to process my RAW files.

Home Again

while I was home again, I figured I should take some more pictures. I played with the intervalometer function on my camera, but the time laps i took really wasnt that interesting so I won't bore you with the movie (I'll think of something better to do later). anyway, here is another picture of maggie.

Re-post

So a few days ago I posted some pictures of Christmas ornaments hanging from my tree. I shot them in ambient light and used a tripod to get all of my pictures tack-sharp, (somewhat)well composed, yadda, yadda, yadda. Well yesterday for Christmas, Santa brought me an original lensbaby so without further adieu, here are some of the same Christmas ornaments, but this time with selective focus. At first I was put off by the softness of the images and some of the glare (most likely due to the uncoated optics) buy hey, for a ninety dollar special effects lens, what more can you ask (personally, the look is starting to grow on me). And of course, some glamor shots of Maggie, who was behaving so well today! (bark, woof, woof, good dog)


for those of you looking for more things to be done with a lensbaby, check out this article in this month's issue of Digital Photo Pro Magazine.

More from home

After reading about how many other photographers got their start by capturing images of the things close to them at home (including greats such as Ansel Adams)I have decided to take a closer look at the things nearest to me. Although I still look forward to going to exciting and exotic places, for now I'm going to think micro, not macro and focus more on technique and instinct. so here are a few pictures from walking around the house (quite literally) for an hour today.