Folks, I've come to the point in life where the ability to waste a little time is as precious as the time itself. I might as well waste my time constructively, right?
Hmm, something's not right there. That made me sound like some kind of time management addict, which I am most certainly not. NOT, you hear me? Stop laughing.
I have, most specifically, created this blog to share a new beginning with you; the birth of a new hobby which I hope will help me love and appreciate the world around me more than I have in years past. I'm going to start taking seriously good pictures again, and I'm darn serious about it.
This of course requires a darn serious camera, and after months of research and scheming, my Canon 40d is set to arrive in just a couple of days. This blog will be, in large part, a chronicle of discovery as I learn the craft of the camera. Or I might rant about politics, sports, guns, or whatever else I feel like and if you come here for the photos you can skip all that crap!
Since this is a new beginning I'm going to start with some photos of another new beginning. A week ago my good friend Jennie the Space Junky http://jbelli.blogspot.com/ baptised her first child, Becca, and as my 40d had not yet shipped I was forced to soldier on with my old 3.2 megapixel Cybershot. These photos will serve as a good baseline "before" to compare with the Canon's 10.1 megapixel "after".
This is Becca, who is a beautiful child and very well mannered, even when blinded by camera flash. This dress is pale green as you can see in the photos below, but even with the built in flash on its mildest setting, the subtle color has been totally blasted out of this photo. Using the old Cybershot indoors you have two choices, harsh flash which washes everything out and makes it look flat, or no flash resulting in poor light gathering and blurs.
Here is a beautiful moment of prayer taken without flash. Everyone is holding still including me behind the camera. Notice the blue artifacting everywhere on the dark clothes. Ugh. If only I had a good camera for scenes like this!
Here's a good example of how even a posed pic fails with my existing camera. Jennie knows to hold still but Becca doesn't. So we have a lovely mother and a lovely blur of face and hands in her arms. Candids? Forget it.
I have many more photos from the baptism, featuring babies with red Terminator Eye when I used the flash, and grainy brown blurring when I didn't. Argh! What a wasted opportunity!
The 40d arrives Wednesday, it can't come soon enough.
