tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51263015826391364682024-03-04T21:13:14.233-07:00Mom With A Canon - My Journey Into PhotographyDocumenting my life and learning how to best use my camera to capture all the moments, big and small, in my son's first year.Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126301582639136468.post-62472342021711845822011-09-24T23:36:00.000-06:002011-09-24T23:36:54.088-06:00A New UpdateLife gets busy, and you realize that things have just fallen by the wayside. Updating this blog is one of those things - I swear I keep meaning to do it and then life happens, and I just don't a chance to do it.<br />
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So for now I'm just going to quickly update the past month and then I'll try to be better at it.<br />
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There may be more. In fact, I'm almost positive there are more, I've only scratched the surface of the pictures I took while on vacation. But a taste for now will have to suffice!Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126301582639136468.post-11047473689134208032011-08-09T21:24:00.000-06:002011-08-09T21:24:00.699-06:00Pasta-riffic!It's been a while since I posted - summer has been so busy and so much fun! I've carted my camera along with me just about everywhere though and have really enjoyed documenting our days.<br />
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The other day I gave LM pasta for the very first time. I must say that he's a baby that just loves food and he eats well, as long as I don't try to give him baby food, and I don't blame him, that stuff looks pretty unappetizing to me too, and if I don't want to eat it, I shouldn't expect him to want to.<br />
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He ate with gusto, smacking his lips and grinning. I think we have a new dinner favorite.<br />
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Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126301582639136468.post-85646547407062195042011-07-17T07:45:00.000-06:002011-07-17T07:45:06.689-06:00The ZooLM has just gotten to the age where he's starting to notice animals. He squeals with delight every time the cat walks anywhere near him, and the dogs just existing in the same space as him can send him into peals of hysterical giggles. So, when friends invited us to go to the zoo with them I thought it would be the perfect time to take him - if he loves the small cats he'd probably love the big cats.<br />
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The lions didn't get close enough to us for him to see, unfortunately, but he was able to see a few others. He really got a kick out of the zebras and the flamingos. I'd like to take him again sometime this summer, we had a lot of fun.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's something about this baby that I just love seeing in black and white.</div>Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126301582639136468.post-69972516782437319762011-07-11T20:17:00.001-06:002011-07-11T20:29:31.760-06:00New Lens - Hello Macro!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I think I'm in love! I know that I have a long way to go learning how best to use it, but this new lens is the most fun thing I've played with in a long time. I've always been more interested learning macro photography than I have at learning people photography, I think because I feel like I can be more creative with it, and I'm completely amazed at the detail I can achieve with this lens.<br />
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Here are a few I took today during LM's nap - enjoy!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">I immediately thought of the floral pictures I took the other day when I saw this challenge, I tried my best to get good bokeh with them. I can't decide which one I like best, so I'm putting them all here. Hope you enjoy!</span><br />
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This is my son's new best friend. Every night we read a book before bed, and I usually carry him with me when I go to the bookshelf to pick out a book. This bear was sitting on one of the shelves and he reached for it two nights in a row, so we started reading the book with him on one knee, and Mr Bear on the other. He certainly loves his bear, he sleeps with it every night, and loves to play with it.<br />
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So, here are a few from today.<br />
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If you're familiar with the Canadian show Heartland, you might recognize this sign. The show is shot in my town.<br />
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My favorite shoes in the world are any of LM's shoes. There's something so sweet about shoes that are so tiny.<br />
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I took LM for a walk this morning and brought my camera with me, with great intentions to practice some more with the magnification filters. I was in a hurry to get to my destination as I was meeting a friend, so I motored there as fast as possible, figuring that I'd get a chance to snap some pictures on the way home - the added bonus was that after a morning of playing hard, LM would be tired and would probably nap in the stroller, giving me the opportunity to snap pictures at my leisure without hearing complaints. This was a great plan, and would have actually worked, if it weren't for one tiny little detail I overlooked - my memory card was still plugged into the side of my laptop.<br />
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So, while I did not manage to get pictures of the amazing flowers I saw on our way home, I did notice a few popping up in my own garden, so while LM was napping, I popped outside and snapped a couple. These are the only onse that I liked. Hope you enjoy!<br />
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I'm also hoping to get out and get some other flower pictures. I'm finding the magnification filters a bit difficult to work with, but I think it's just going to take some practice!<br />
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Ferber, take me away...<br />
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Onto the frustration. I've had a string of days where I've truly believed my photography sucked. A 5 year old could probably take better pictures with a disposable camera. My focus is off, my pictures are all noisy, I can't get color right. If I could make everything black and white I would, but I think that would only fly if it was currently 1911 rather than 2011. I'm hoping it's just a slump and I'll get out of it and start being happy with my work again.<br />
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Out of a couple hundred pictures I've taken over the past week, this is really the only one that I was happy enough with to actually edit.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I know that it's somewhat of an up-the-nose shot, and the focus is more on his cheek than his eyes, but I like how intently he's looking at the toy. Mommy-goggles I know, but I guess sometimes that's just enough to love a picture.</div>Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126301582639136468.post-80221221196169923932011-06-04T00:00:00.001-06:002011-06-04T00:00:36.082-06:00Another Major Milestone... and Fun with FiltersI thought moving into the big boy carseat was Milestone enough for one week, but Little Man decided to surprise me and step it up a notch. After a few days of being absolutely miserable and cranky, and me attributing it to him being constipated, he completely caught me off guard when he popped not just one, but two teeth. Yes, two teeth - LM is quite the overachiever! It took me a few attempts to get into his mouth and check for teeth, and I still haven't been able to really see them - he's not really on board with the whole idea, and I'm thinking his mouth has got to be a bit tender. But I can feel them if I run my finger along his bottom gums, and I was able to catch a really quick glimpse of them. I sure won't be taking any pictures of them anytime soon though!<br />
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I was able to get some pictures today though, using my new Magnification Filters. They were suggested to me as a reasonably priced alternative to the macro lens that I can't possibly afford or justify at the moment. If I could, I'd be all over the Canon 100mm f2.8. Maybe I can suggest it as a Birthday or Christmas present, but that's still quite a ways away. $20 for a set of 4 magnification filters is much more within my budget at the moment. <br />
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I really need to work on nailing focus using these. I've read that it might be best to manually focus the lens (I'm using my 18-55mm kit lens - I could also use my 55-250 telephoto zoom lens, I'll probably try that one next.) It's also been suggested to me that I try using my tripod and remote, so I'll give that a try as well. Still though, the out of focus look actually kind of works with these spring flowers (yes, it's still Spring in my neck of the woods!)<br />
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These were all taken very quickly in a break between two thunderstorms - I had just enough time to pop the +10 filter onto my lens and run out to the front yard to see what I could get. I'll definitely be trying this again, and I think I might try stacking the filters next time.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And before anyone says anything, yes, he is rear-facing still - he's only 6 months old and the law says he must be rear facing until at least a year (I'm hoping to stay rear facing longer), and he's not nearly as upright as he looks in this picture, it's the angle I was holding the camera at.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On another note, today was supposed to be Colonoscopy Day. Well, I cancelled my appointment, I'm waiting for them to call to reschedule. I began my prep yesterday, fasted the entire day, except for coffee, water, chicken broth and jello. I went out in the afternoon to pick up the jug of nastyness I was supposed to consume as the last part of the prep. The last time I had a colonoscopy done, I only had to drink 2 glasses of nasty. This time, they wanted me to consume this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That is a 4 litre jug of pure, vomit-inducing, yucky gross-ness. I know that's not a word, but I can't actually come up with a word to describe how horrible it is. It's not so much the flavour, it's pineapple flavoured, which is gross enough (I hate pineapple). It's how it made me feel. Every sip made me feel like I was about to hurl. I tried my best, I got through 4 glasses of it, and that took me 2 hours. I would have been drinking this stuff into the wee hours of the morning, I don't even know if I would have been able to keep enough down to have it work. So I called the Dr's office and I cancelled my appointment. I've asked them to come up with another option - I just can't do this. I'm sorry, I tried, there has to be another way. Hubby wasn't too impressed with me, he thought I was being a wuss, and maybe so, but I couldn't physically make myself drink one more sip of it. I just couldn't. I'll see what they come up with for another option. I know there are other ways of doing it, and there has to be one that's either less nasty, or requires a lot less of the nastyness.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, instead of hopping on a stretcher and being sedated at 10:30 this morning, I think I'm going to head down to the park and check out a new stroller group. Way more fun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126301582639136468.post-86947265454957830302011-05-30T22:59:00.000-06:002011-05-30T22:59:14.031-06:00No bottles, no sippy cups!Little man (herein known as LM) is exclusively breastfed. For the first couple of months I had to supplement his feedings with formula, so he was used to taking a bottle, and never had any problems with them. I was able to get him off of the formula completely by the time he was about 7 weeks old, but he still had no problems taking a bottle on occasion.<br />
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In less than 2 days I'm supposed to go spend the morning and a large part of the afternoon in the hospital having a colonoscopy done. I haven't had one done in 13 years, so I'm way overdue. He's supposed to stay with my Mom for the day, but I've just discovered that he will NOT take a bottle anymore. It's my own fault, breastfeeding became so easy that I didn't keep up with giving him an occasional bottle - formula is expensive and bottles are a pain in the butt to clean, breastfeeding means that his food is always the perfect temperature, requires no extra cleaning/care and is free. Unfortunately, it also means that I can't be away from him longer than a couple of hours, since my breasts are not detachable. This is going to be a huge problem - there's no way I can spend 8+ hours in the hospital if he's not going to eat the entire time I'm away.<br />
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I've currently tried 3 different brands of bottles and 2 different sippy cups, no dice so far. He's just not having it. This is what my kitchen counter looked like today after multiple attempts.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm more than a little worried about how Wednesday is going to go. People have been telling me that he won't let himself starve, but I don't know. He's pretty stubborn. I guess all I can do is wait and see.</div>Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126301582639136468.post-68362958431786321342011-05-29T22:09:00.001-06:002011-05-29T22:12:36.172-06:00Oops!What a bonehead move. I was playing around with my tripod and remote the other day, so I turned off the Auto Power Off fuction. Well, I guess I forgot to turn it back on again, so this morning my camera battery was dead. Luckily I do have a second battery, and the dead one is now charging, but I guess I really need to make a note to myself not to do that!<br />
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Today apparently is yardwork day. We're on a watering ban at the moment because of the flood scare we had here in town - the water levels rose high enough that the water treatment plant is working overtime and we're supposed to be cutting down on our water consumption, so no uneccessary water use. That being said, I just planted 4 hanging baskets and a rose bush yesterday, and I'm not about to let them die, so I did stealth watering this morning - not the easiest thing in the world when you back out onto a walking path and a main street. Hubby was up bright and early this morning to dispose of a tree that we cut down last weekend, he now has the lawn mowed and is getting ready to reseed after having it aerated the other week. I really need to weed, but I hate weeding, so I'm procrastinating on that. Instead, I grabbed Little man, a blanket and a bunch of toys, and took him outside to the front yard to play in the shade while I helped dispose of 3 years worth of leaves and junk hiding under the hedges. And of course I brought my camera outside with me, just in case there was a good photo op. I really need to get some practice shooting outdoors - I'm having real trouble with blowing whites, even more so than indoors, and I thought I was bad with that indoors!<br />
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Anway, here are a few from today.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-cLu2WAGjGvAxbljFGZO-gjO-LnXAANEktX7f1eXHY5GJzn8DRaboRW2rZTzO8qjIfp_pytdzenu08j7pGVhMFcsqNnumPKE7c7OtodiTpkcHcSWgYhz1u5duX8ElIfVR4zVhRZHNcKm/s1600/IMG_2307_edited-2+watermark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-cLu2WAGjGvAxbljFGZO-gjO-LnXAANEktX7f1eXHY5GJzn8DRaboRW2rZTzO8qjIfp_pytdzenu08j7pGVhMFcsqNnumPKE7c7OtodiTpkcHcSWgYhz1u5duX8ElIfVR4zVhRZHNcKm/s400/IMG_2307_edited-2+watermark.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126301582639136468.post-26193583969943615082011-05-28T20:27:00.001-06:002011-05-28T20:53:47.777-06:00Starting Out<div><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rrrvJWmLfPqkRqF9rttrw8Ml5oBNB18uGjQbha7TcFCn5Pfr2bNNyUy3GrSgLrpxVClZIEkRGW0-e9JwDg1948ShzFTgvNK6kEAq8t4znr-xxKe1R82uFiwgWBcyy94Uu5iahntntJgq/s1600/IMG_2212_watermark.jpg"></a><div>I've always thought about starting a blog, but really I have a hard time believing that other people could actually find me interesting enough to want to read about me on even a semi-regular basis! But since I picked my camera back up again and set myself the goal of learning how to use it inside, outside, upside-down and sideways, I've realized that I probably need a place to start putting all my pictures - you can only spam your Facebook friends so long before they get sick and tired of seeing yet another picture of your (albeit incredibly adorable) baby pop up on their feed. So here at least, I'm making it optional. :)</div><div> </div><div>My wonderful husband was recently wonderful enough to buy me a new lens for my camera - a 50mm f1.8 and I'm head over heels in love with it. I love the bokeh I can get from this lens, but it's a real bitch figuring out how to nail the focus with it. So that's going to be a big goal of mine, trying to acheive perfect focus on a regular basis.</div><div> </div><div>Here's a picture I took earlier this evening, of my new hanging baskets. This is the first year I haven't had plain ugly pastic white baskets, so I'm actually quite proud of these! I had my lens wide open on this shot to try to get good bokeh, and I'm not 100% sure that I acheived perfect focus here, but I like the effect.</div><div> </div><div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwGBSWJ8u6cYIoNnVXIJ508TvmB2q0k8DlNOT2NAuz3tWm614oU_eqOdovmSr-rb9pFchTA31gzHodLOV1FRQvqrmrOVkzG8DidKN_ocJz4FLzZiLshhLZyM6zdLt4n7Dkj0COUIEFewHU/s1600/IMG_2212_watermark.jpg"><img style="width: 320px; height: 214px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611965007345361250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwGBSWJ8u6cYIoNnVXIJ508TvmB2q0k8DlNOT2NAuz3tWm614oU_eqOdovmSr-rb9pFchTA31gzHodLOV1FRQvqrmrOVkzG8DidKN_ocJz4FLzZiLshhLZyM6zdLt4n7Dkj0COUIEFewHU/s320/IMG_2212_watermark.jpg" /></a></div><div> </div></div></div>Cara R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428874875039142766noreply@blogger.com0