My world in pictures

Due to an influx of money recently I have been able to go buy a new camera. A Cannon Power Shot A540. Joy and happy days ^_^ I’ve been waiting for this for some time now, and with the days finally getting warmer I can actually take a camera outside without the batteries konk’n out on me after a few minutes. My daughter now gets to play with our previous digital camera seeing as she likes to take pictures like Daddy (I should post some of her photos some day) and I get to play with the new camera so everyone’s happy. Actually a new camera was in order anyway since I just got done taking photo's and designing my step mothers CD. I had to use thier camera since my old one is only 2 mega pixels and not nearly good eoungh to handle the job. Now, I'm set for anything.

I’ve already been out several days in a row taking pictures and seeing what I can and can’t do with all the features of this new bad boy. Now let’s see here, I went form no real features on the old camera to 20 different features on the new one. It’s quite over whelming but lots of fun. I think I’ve used 3 or 4 different settings so far and they’ve just been preset features like “landscape”, “portrait” and such. Later I’ll fiddle around with the manual options where I can adjust my own shutter speed, aperture and focus. I still have the shaking issue when I take some pictures as I didn’t want to shell out too much money on a camera with the new fancy “stabilizing” technology since I’m still such an amateur. But that’s fine and most times I just keep trying different settings until I get what I want. Later I can see me getting a tripod as well and that will eliminate the shake more as well.

It’s easy to get excited about the prospect of taking better and better pictures. Especially with digital cameras since you can just delete the ones that don’t turn out. I’m usually taking 3 or 4 shots on different settings and standing positions/angles to see what works out best. I’m even looking to the future because when I’m ready I can get extra lenses for my camera like a telephoto lens and such. I actually found out yesterday that I would like to have a telephoto lens for taking candid pictures of people in the city. I had to abandon several pictures because the people could hear my camera beep and would look in my direction. Oh well, all in due time. I’ll have plenty of things to snap with this camera before I really feel like I want a new lens.

And now... here's some more pictures from my new camera.