i think this is one of those shots that really got me looking towards macro - being able to take closeups of tiny things and whatever is just awesome, and i think i ended up ordering a macro lens because of it (of course, if i wasn't all nerdhappy and just bought one, i could've done some research and saved myself (my mom) about 600 bucks - there's some pretty cheap macro techniques out there that'll get you a high magnification for less than a hundred bucks. given my $20 a week pseudoallowance (my dad only gives me it when he feels like it/when he drives me to school), that would've been an easily manageable 5 weeks of not eating lunch. but it's not too bad, i still love the lens i got (it produces sexylooking pics, and is pretty sexylooking itself. it's also my birthday and christmas present. and probably a good chunk of my chinese new year's too), and it's nice have a longish lens with autofocus - i later bought another long lens, but manual-everything, for like $50. and as far as macro goes, i love it - give me, like, a log with cool plants/fungi/insects on it or something, and i'll spend hours photographing it. so i guess in the end it's not all wasteful.
this is a set of pics of northern harriers - as soon as we (my dad and i) saw them, i totally nerdgasmed and made my way out as close as i could to where the one in the first pic was perched. i sooo wish i had a longer lens for this, but oh well, it still totally made my day; as soon as i got home i opened up the dozen bird books i have from my embarassing phase of...well, let's not get into it at all, but anyways, went through my books and found out that they were, in fact, northern harriers. cool shite. and if you look closely at the middle-upper-right of some of the pics, you'll see smudge-like marks on the pics - that's what dust on the camera sensor looks like. |
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