Profit Sharing

Today was the day my bonus check hit my bank account. Wooooooohoooo!!!  :)

So obviously I had to purchase something... I've been itching to buy another lens for my camera so I browsed a couple websites for some good recommendations for a newbie photographer like myself and decided on the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens.

Now here's what I think all of that means: 35mm is the fixed zoom (this lens won't zoom without me walking back and forth), Lowest F-stop is 1.8, I think the G means it auto focuses, and the AF-S means its compatible with a camera that offers autofocus.  ?? Hopefully that's mostly right.

Cute Little Thing

Should be here tomorrow, just in time for the weekend. :)

Nikon DSLR D3100

I just got an awesome new camera, the Nikon D3100.

I bought a mid-grade Nikon point and shoot a year back because I wanted to start playing around taking pictures, mostly as a way to force myself to leave the house and get outside (I can be a serious hermit when I want to be). So I tooled around and got myself out and about taking pictures, and really enjoyed it. Now I'm in the process of starting a diaper cake business and my camera wasn't really cutting it for product photography. I pulled the trigger and bought the heavy duty DSLR. Now, I just need to figure out how to get the most out of it. I've been snapping pictures at home (since I'm petrified to take this incredibly expensive camera outside the confines of my safe home environment) and trying to set up some 'studio' like scenarios for photographing the diaper cakes. After a few days of trying out the various auto modes I got out the manual and started reading up on all that my camera could do. I have also pinned numerous links on Pintrest for quick tip guides. One of my most favorite finds on Pintrest are the photo challenges, where everyday you have to take a photo of something. I'm super excited to start the March photo challenge, only problem is... I'm already 8 days behind. Pure. Lazy.

Here's a picture of my pretty new camera:

My goal before the week is up: get up to date on the photo challenges!!!

First Blog Post

I don't have anything note worthy to say for my first blog post, other than I wanted a place to create a timeline of what I've been doing, what I've been thinking about, and what I've been taking pictures of.

I will however put a theme to this blog in the form of a quote:

"She flies with her own wings."