Day 16

Along with my Nikon d80, I have 4 lenses that I use. I have a 18-55 which I use most of the time when not doing actual photography, a 55-200mm, a f/2.8 fisheye that cost a pretttyyyy penny, and my absolute favorite, my portrait lens---the cheapest but most worthwhile purchase: Nikkor f/1.8 50mm.

This lens is pretty boss because:

1.) It's tiny!! it's half the size of my 18-55 and easy to cram into my camera bag.

2.) It can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Depending on what your aperture is at, this lens can make your picture sharp as all get out. Or, if at it's biggest aperture, really gives you depth of field.

3.) It was reallly cheap. $100-150? I think. It was in my budget at the time, that's all I know!

4.) I can be doing really bad portraits with my 18-55 and will put this baby on and BAM! suddenly i'm working magic, like in the engagement photo shown below!! Suddenly everything clicks and poses come together, and lighting and oh man. I love this lens!!

That's todays lesson! Invest in one good portrait lens :)

Somers photoshoot

Just some photos from my latest family shoot!!

New Soft Box

I am super stoked. I by chance found a Calumet flyer booklet in the bushes by my house that probably fell out of our mail at some point, and advertised in it was 1/2 off soft boxes! and of course I had to have one!! : ) I wish I could say 'long story short' but all I did was buy it yesterday and it got here today! Once again I'm super stoked.

So I set it up and took one quick photo of myself with it (unedited other than to change to b/w) and can't wait to use it some more!! I have an engagement shoot this weekend, I'll post photos!