My new best friend!

By: Amy on August 31st, 20103 Comments. View Comments

Today I received my new macro lens!!!! I have been waiting so long to get this lens and I told the deliveryman today that he was my hero. I hope I made his day as wonderful as he made mine. I had come home from school for a short break just in case the lens came... perfect timing! I had just enough time to snap a quick photo, load it on my computer, and upload it to Facebook before I had to go back to school. This lens is amazing. The macro capabilities amaze me. I had never even rented a macro lens (which I usually do before I buy lenses) which was a little bit of a risk. I knew that I would fall in love with it instantly... how could I not??? I can't wait to do more ring shots with this... I will make them look HUGE! Here is the lens itself:

Here is the first photo I took with this lens... this is at an aperture of 9!!!! I know to many of you that may not mean anything but if there are any photographers out there, think about it. I was about 2 inches away from the ring itself, just think about what it would have looked like at 2.8 (which it is capable of). BOOM my awesome wedding ring is in your face!

I got too impatient waiting for bugs so I settled for a leaf.

We have a cork collection from all of Derek's wine.

Ok, this blog is about to get personal. Very few people know this little fact about me, and I'm going to share it with you all. None of you will ever look at me the same, brace yourself. My eyes are uneven. Yeah, really uneven. No, I see just fine. Yes, sometimes I can slightly see over the left lens of my glasses. My left eye is higher than my right and my left foot is longer than my right. Correlation? Maybe. Either way, don't be alarmed. I can see you just fine. My photos aren't crooked, I only use one eye when focusing. Now that I have calmed you all down, I will share this photo. I think it is so cool because you can see such detail from the reflection of my eyes showing the detail of this lens. Anyway, here goes nothin'

Thanks for stopping by! There will be many more macro posts when I can build up the patience to watch for bugs