Wednesday, January 5, 2011

it was on a starry night....

first blog post of 2011! happy new year everyone! hope you all had happy holidays!  ours was really relaxing, just what the doctor ordered :)

haven't had a chance to blog over the holidays, which was not the plan.  but one of my new year resolutions is to blog more, whether i will be able to keep that one i am not sure.  never been good at the whole resolution thing really.  but this new year does feel like a new start and i am really excited.

in my blogging free holidays we hung out with lots of friends, one of which Robert Bingham, who very nicely lent me his Canon 5D for a couple of days.  completely feel in love with this camera and it made my 450D look insignificant in comparison, i actually was quite sad to go back to it.  one of the things Robbie had been boasting about was the 5D's amazing high ISO which gives you the opportunity to shoot very well at night without flash. i decided to put this to the test.  luckily the night was really clear and windy so i tried to experiment photographing starry nights without using bulb or a tripod.  here is what i came out with:





after that i decided to give my lil 450D another chance.  we were going to a farm with some friends for new years, which was in the middle of no where so i wanted to try some star trails.  to be fair the 450D doesn't do badly, and i think i fell in love with it all over again.  



then as it was so dark some of us tried light writing, just for fun:


Erm, this is meant to say "LOVE"


...and this "BEC"...


just a smiley


...and some hearts

Ok, so we could practice a bit more on that.......