Nice horsey

 

 

f/5.6, shutter 1/320, ISO 3200, 300mm

 

Zoom comparison

55mm vs 300mm zoom

55mm

300mm

Ducks

Still on auto.  I went out for a couple hours when my daughter was at dance class and I had not experimented with aperture and shutter speed yet.  The next few posts will all be on auto.

My 300mm lens came in handy with this guy!

How little I know

I have been trying really hard the last few weeks to learn anything I can about good photography.  Now that I have a new camera in my hands, I dont know anything!  Today I just played.  I just wanted to see what kind of images I could get (everything pretty much on auto) Hey, I did figure out how to turn the camera on- so yay.

My daughter seems to think my old camera is now hers and she went out with me to snap some shots.  It will be fun if she loves it as much as I do.

I wanted to try out our 55-300mm lens.  It has quite the zoom....  I can only imagine what the 500 can do.  My hometown has mountains in every direction, so what better way to try out the zoom that on the beautiful mountains!

West side view (we are on east side of valley)

East mountains during sunrise

Back porch view of mountains

Same shot but focus on the tree

West mountains

West mountains

East mountains

I never really understood why a wide angle lens would be so good to have until I took my first shot with the 300 lens.  All the way zoomed in with the mountains close by definately cuts out a lot of  surrounding landscape.  Wide angle is for sure on my wish list.