Right as that time rolled around, the baby woke up hungry. And breastfeeding quite literally makes me sleepy. So I fell asleep while he ate. I got up and put him back down at some point and then slept on and off til 9am when Jonyn crawled out of our bed.
But while I was up, I started looking through alllll of my camera's settings. More specifically, the Custom Functions. I ran across one of them and had no idea what it meant. So I looked it up. And came to a Canon page that explained each one of them.
I learned of a quicker way to toggle my focal points. Love that. I am constantly changing the focal points on my Beast around. And an easier way to do it? I'll take it.
I learned a few other useful things too.
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What I really, really love is that photography is a constant learning game. It's like I'm in school all the time. I learn from others, I learn from my "manual", aka, going on line and looking stuff up. I learn by doing, by reading, by practice, practice, practice. I learn from my constant mistakes and from trying out new things. I love that I can constantly learn and improve. My photos from 2009 to 2010 made a huge improvement. Of course, that's just my opinion. Having amazing photos of my kids? Yep, that's amazing. But I love it when I capture something that makes me stop and say oh my gosh. I love it when other people's images do that for me too. That's how I know when I think something is truly breathtaking.
Last year, on my camera, I went Manual all the way. I've never had it on Auto, it was always on Aperture Priority. But knowing what all my functions and buttons and dials mean? That's what I gained the most last year. That knowledge that I could manipulate my settings to get an amazing image. I gained control of my camera instead of it being in control of my images. And I'm so glad I did!
Now I just need (or want) a Macro lens so I can tackle that world too!
edit: I changed the link to the Macro lens. Apparently, I copied the wrong link earlier. Had a squirmy hungry baby in my arms. A cute squirmy hungry baby :)
Not THAT macro if you want it on your full-frame camera! You want the 100mm 2.8 L. We both do! Hee hee. Let's each pay for half of it and mail it back and forth! ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Canon link. Maybe I can learn something new too.
Adorable photo! Its so true that you are never done learning with photography which is what I love about it!
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