It's here! Our new camera! Look at a picture of it taken with my crappy iPhone camera!
That will be the last crappy photo in this post. As this is the first new camera we've gotten in a few years, we got to play with all of the fun features that have been added in since the dark ages of digital photography. First, a test photo of some of the wildlife around our apartment:
Yeah...our complex isn't very wild. Now, let's show off a bit. First up, our surrogate child, the tomato plant.
Yo. Those are blossoms. And look at the fine detail on those hairs! Impressive. After we took a few photos around our complex, we went for a walk out to the agricultural gardens. Among the sites we saw:
A building across the street from our complex. Made slightly more interesting using "film grain" mode, which makes the image grainy. And black and white. Like old-timey film!
A rollerblader. Dude, 1995 called.
A lamp post covered in a climbing, flowering vine. Unlike the rollerblading man, this was actually interesting.
A's favorite photo of the evening? Taken behind the agrictultural building. This was shot using the "intelligent auto" mode on the camera, which was smart enough to 1) recognize that we were shooting a picture of flowers and 2) tell me that we were shooting flowers. It also entered macro mode automatically. Slick.
Sweet. Sunset over the agricultural fields. This was taken using "sunset" mode, which worked darn well, in my opinion.
Judicious use of film-grain mode makes a bench look old-timey.
As I am a sucker for magnolias, here's a picture of one. They're blooming all over campus right now and it's lovely.
We used blue hydrangias in our wedding, so it was a nice surprise to find several bushes of them behind the ag building. This particular flower has three colors, which is two colors more interesting than just blue.
I might take some of these photos and artsy them up using GIMP. Stay tuned for some awesome food blogs - our food will look ~12.1 megapixels better.
Those are great pictures. I love all the artsy stuff you can do with it. If you don't mind, bring it with you when you visit because I'd be curious to see it. The camera we have was a gift from my undergrad graduation so we might be looking to upgrade in the near future. We got frustrated on vacation having to wait 30 seconds for it to turn on every time we wanted to take a picture (and you have to turn it off because the battery life is about 5 min).
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