The photo didn’t turn out how I wanted it to, but I’m still new at this and I haven’t found the Ansel Adams setting on this camera yet. Anyway, this is the sort of scene to expect where I live. The closest I can get to capturing frost on evergreens is raindrops on poinsettia petals. H.E. took me shopping today for a couple of camera accessories. I now have a UV filter, a circular polarizing filter, and a lens hood….
Last year, H.E. got me a camera for Christmas, but it turned out to be one of those things, where you think it’s defective so you return it to get a replacement, only to find out that the replacement works exactly like the first one. Like shit. The camera gobbled up brand new batteries after only eight shots, auto-focused whenever the hell it pleased (which was whenever the hell you didn’t please), and was lickety-split pulled off the market not…
So it’s not the best of cameras. It was only meant to be a starter camera, the sort you get for a child when they’re first learning how to shoot. Still, you’d expect to get a decent picture with the autofocus and fine setting turned on, right? How hard could it be? Very hard, it seems. This is only one of a handful of test shots I took before the batteries died on me, and if you look really closely,…