Oh hello beautiful.
So I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been ordering stuff for my project 365. Well today one of my most highly anticipated items arrived…. my new 50mm f/1.8 lens. *\o/* Hooray!
It’s also the very first lens (besides the kit lens that came with the D90) that I ordered so it was especially exciting. I had planned on waiting for a while before buying lenses, but I kept seeing the 50mm pop up on flickr and it just looked so fabulous. I couldn’t resist. I also had no idea what I was doing: I put the lens on and could not get the auto-focus to work. Turns out when I put the lens on, I didn’t rotate it all the way (so that it clicked), so it couldn’t auto-focus. Then heavens for someone on twitter helping me out!
Oh and cute sidebar… yesterday my kids saw me get a box that had Wall-E in it. When they saw me with a box today, they asked “is that Eve?” If you’ve seen the movie, you know how freaking cute that is.
Anyway, I KNOW I’ll be using this lens a lot but here are a few shots that I took, just playing around with it. Nothing special so I didn’t put them up on flickr, but I felt they were blog-worthy.
Ooooh… pretty bokeh!
I just like how crisp the shot of the blue stamper is… odd, I know.
Okay is it just me or is this shot kinda neat? Something about the focus and the tilt gets to me. Btw, those kids in the background… not my class. That’s the yoga after school club that uses my room, I don’t teach them.
Lol, weird shot, but I just like the crisp focus on the white truck. And plus now you can see how much gas cost on January 13, 2010. :)
The kinda crummy thing is that I’ll probably have to keep my new love affair hush hush for a while… I haven’t told my parents I got it. I told my dad I wanted a macro lens the other day (actually a filter, but I still want the lens) and he said I should learn about what I have first before getting new things. And I know he has a point. But when I found that really good deal on this refurbished lens, I couldn’t resist. And I totally don’t regret buying it, not one bit.
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