Festive Photos

I am quickly learning that my best shots are of inanimate objects......I suspect that Macro Photography may turn out to be my forte! At this point, the photos I take of people completely suck....there's just no other way to say it. At the top of my wish list is the Nikon 50mm/1.8 AF D lens, which will certainly help me to get the portraits of people I really want, but a huge part of it will be practice and improving my technique. Although I'm not particularly happy with my kit lens, I certainly can't blame it for my portrait fails!

Regardless, here is a shot that just makes me feel happy and festive every time I look at it.

 And the runner-up for my fave shot of the day:

~Michelle

Holy Learning Curve...

So I've decided to take up photography as a hobby. I need something other than television to occupy my free time and since I don't have a crafty bone in my body...photography seemed to fit. I don't expect to be great at it, but hope I can learn enough to become decent!

After much research, I decided on the Nikon D3100. It's the perfect mix of quality combined with being user-friendly for beginners, and different lenses will allow it to grow with me as I improve. I was thrilled to realize they just started offering it in red, so of course I had to get the pretty, shiny version!

The main lessons I have learned so far are: 1) The best shots seem to happen by accident, and 2) It is going to take MUCH longer to learn the basics than I thought it would!

I have found two websites particularly helpful so far:

Digital Photography School

Improve Photography

And here, my best (flukey) shots so far:

That's three out of about 200. Ouch. This will take time....but I do have plenty of that.

~Michelle