Camera Play

After Strut Your Mutt (another post entirely) I decided to break out the new camera (a birthday present from my awesome hubby) and play around some more with the shutter speed and the zoom (this camera is so different than my point and shoot - I am incredibly intimidated).  Who better to photograph than my adorable little boy and pupster!  They were such great sports about playing in the yard with me chasing them with a camera or running away from them so that they would run/crawl towards me.....I really do have two of the best little guys anyone could ask for (at least on this day!). 

Here are my two boys sitting next to each other - this doesn't happen often and I think out of 20 pictures we got these two usable ones.....

Conor 8 months, 3 weeks - Hunter 11.5 years

What was our secret to getting them to sit so nicely?

Nope - it wasn't super strength - but that's a good guess Conor

Nope - we didn't make a scrunch face either......

See those two fingers in the bottom left hand screen that Hunter is looking very carefully at?

They were holding a COOKIE!!!!  That's what kept Hunter still and you were so excited just to be sitting near Hunter - you kept wanting to touch him and he tolerated it because of the COOKIE!!!!  That's our secret!

I know - your parents are awesome!

Back to the camera - the shutter speed is very quick in the auto mode when the zoom is set correctly.  For example - it caught Conor scrawling arm by arm as he scurried across the grass to get to me.

Right

Left

Right

Stopping....

and what a face!

 It also was able to capture all of Hunter's individual hairs as they bounced with the wind when he ran - my old camera would catch a couple or clumps of hair but this camera caught each blade of grass and strand of hair - simply amazing!

Love this little guy!
 

So there you have it - a few pictures with my beautiful new camera (Nikon D5100) that I love.  I hope to use it exclusively from this point forward (other than my cell phone camera) unless we are going somewhere that I would want to risk damaging it or I don't have room to carry it.  Now, I just need to find some classes so that I can get more comfortable with it!

xoxo
Erin