Breaking in the New Glass

You guys! My new camera lens came yesterday, and I’m obsessed with it!

When I mentioned getting a 50mm lens for my camera, everyone insisted that I needed to do it. I had mostly just been using my kit lens since I got the camera three and a half years ago, and it seemed to do exactly what I needed. Now that I’ve upgraded I realize how much I’ve been missing out on.

While Ju napped, I ran (literally) to the mailbox. She woke up just in time to be the subject of a gazillion photos.

I started off by trying to manually focus the lens, and I thought I had done a decent enough job, but as I glance at the images now, most aren’t in focus. Boo. After switching to auto-focusing the lens, I’m a much happy camper.

I did stick with aperture mode, like I usually do, and I got some great results. Lots of crisp, clear images with perfectly blurry backgrounds. Aside from resizing and adding the watermark, there was no editing done to the photos below. I love how they turned out! What do you think?