Monday, December 1, 2008

Deck the Halls With Chubby Penguins


Blurry backgrounds--I can make blurry backgrounds now!  Yay!  Yes, I finally bit the bullet and bought a better camera. Not that I don't love my point-and-shoot, but I've wanted to be able to take more than two kinds of pictures (with flash and without flash) for a while now.  So along with millions of other patriotic Americans trying to stimulate the economy, M and I went shopping on Black Friday.  For ourselves.  And M bought me a dSLR.  He's the greatest!

I'm still very new to learning the "science" of photography, and so far the camera is still smarter than me, considering photos I've taken in the automatic mode look much better than those that I've taken in the manual mode, but hey--I've only been doing this for 4 days now.  

Also in the spirit of Black Friday weekend shopping for my family myself, I went to that land of sparkly, shiny goodies, Crate & Barrel, and brought home holiday cheer in the form of the cutest animal ornaments you've ever seen.  And I can make them stand out even more with blurry backgrounds.