New Lens

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For christmas this year I got a macro lens. I'm beyond stoked about it and have been messing around with it a lot lately. Just getting a feel for what all it can do is important. I decided I'd share some of my best shots over the last couple of weeks. It is obviously awesome with close up photos but I've also figured out it is really good for taking portraits.

I LOVE the focal points this lens can give me. It really makes the subject of my pictures pop.

This one of my cat's eye took me at least 20 shots to get right.

Same goes with the snake. With moving subjects, focusing my macro lens was really difficult. I used a fast shutter speed with this along with flash, but it was still hard to get the right parts in focus.

Nothing really special about this one, I just thought it was kinda fun. Once again, however, It demonstrates how sharp the focus is with my new lens

This is a close up of a rip in my jeans. I thought it turned out kind of neat especially with the detail it shows that close up

Rejects

So this is just a mini project I decided to do halfway through the week. Due to the fact that it's a new year, I decided to go through and delete some pictures off my computer to make some room. I got my camera around Christmas last year, and I found a folder with a bunch of random photos that I took over the entire year of 2009. They are basically just some of the rejects of the year, the ones left over after picking out the good pictures to edit. There are a lot of them, and they aren't the best things ever, but I thought it was neat because I took each picture for a reason at that moment.
So now it's time for the rejected pictures to shine :)