To get that shot

At past eleven pm yesterday, Andrew asked me if I wanted to get up to the rooftop of the carpark to photograph the full moon. It being only a day past the lunar fifteenth, the moon still appeared totally round, and very bright. So I put a sweater over my jammies and we took the huge 100-400mm almost telescopic lens and the tripod up.

The clouds were very uncooperative and we ended up with less than average shots of the moon with scant a detail. Argh. I’ll try again next month. It was really lovely in the beginning though, with the almost pure warm glow of the moon lighting up the nearby clouds. By the time we were done setting up the huge ass tripod, we knew we couldn’t get the shot we wanted. The clouds had come in way too close.

Oh well.

Anyway, it was interesting to note how we had spoilt the total seclusion of the carpark area for a couple of get-a-hotel-room lovebirds.

My first camera lens

I love to read reviews. Book reviews. Children’s DVD reviews. Reviews on makeup. Movie reviews. Photographic equipment reviews. And it is because of a review that I finally landed myself my very own camera lens today! Yay! It’s the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM. The husband made this recommendation when he learnt that I wanted a macro lens and so I read up on it. Took me to the shop to try it out and I really loved how I could get really close up to an object, the lovely bokeh and its overall resultant effect on the photo. And I got the remote control too. Heh. The shop assistant initially handed me one that had to be plugged into the camera.

I was like, “Huh?! How far does this go?”

“About three feet.”

“Three feet?!!” I was thinking – I can’t take full body shots three feet from the camera! “Don’t you have a wireless one?!”

And so he did. Yay.

The geek in me is thrilled!

Yay!

I would have liked a tetrabyte HD, but still, YAY!