In keeping with our New Year’s Day tradition, and in light of my new camera, we took the family on a little walkabout on Wednesday afternoon to Freestone Park over on the east side. We’d never been there before, and it was a fun little excursion. There’s a lake, lots of ducks and geese and other water fowl, some pretty waterfalls, and a little amusement park with rides. The carousel and train were a big hit – as was driving the toddler sized Chevy.
The skies were cloudy, so I didn’t have to fight with harsh lighting and could concentrate on testing my camera settings.
I experimented with action (Ruben, ducks, carousel in motion), aperture priority (portraits), and landscape (not a lot of zoom at 105, but not bad considering). I do look forward to getting a longer zoom lens, but this is 24-105 is nice for what I do a lot of, which is people pix. I need to work on everything, but especially shutter priority.
Also, I tried to step back in my editing a smidge (on some here, not all), since it’s fun to see what comes out of the camera clean… but I can’t squash my inner artist. If I have a vision, I’m gonna play with it!
