Photo-philia

The extreme love of all things photo.

Thus begins my addiction to my Canon.

I've been playing. Of course, playing requires editing at some point and that takes time. What's been taking the longest is off-loading the photos from my card to my computer. ****NEED MORE RAM****

But I've played a bit. And thought I'd share some of my first photos.

I love the ability to focus precisely where I want. Whether the camera is set in automatic or manual. I can control the aspects I choose. For this photo of Scott (taken mostly for the goatee, which I don't like, by the way!), I shot manual focus in portrait mode. What I like is that as I enlarge the photo, the details of his eyes come through. He really does have pretty eyes, much nicer now that they're not buried behind glasses!

This was the sunrise on Sunday morning (the 29th). I went out to get the paper and had to shoot this as well. Nothing spectacular about it camera-wise, but it's a stunning sunrise, and because it's in the "twilight", you don't see the businesses behind the trees!

This next series was taken at night, playing with "focal point". It's the same shot, but I focused on three different parts of my tree. I like to take interesting angles, so for this, I lay under my tree and shot upwards. The focal points are: bottom of tree (focus on blue ball/light), middle of tree (focus on green light) and top of tree (focus on angel's lights). What I love about the Canon is that it has focal point lights that will light up in the viewfinder, helping you to center your focus better.
The next set of photos was taken at the same time as the sunrise photo. Again, playing with focal points. I LOVE how I could get so close to the lights that you can see the frost CLEARLY on them!
And these last two, again taken on Sunday morning of the sun through the garland and lights on my rail. I did two shots, changing the focus on each.focus is on the trees - the green you see below the sun is the Christmas light - it almost looks like lens flare....The focus was on the garland. I love how the background is so blurry....that's that kind of photo I was aiming for!!!