I Create Beautiful Children

I have been wanting a new camera lens for at least a year now.  A few weeks ago I decided I would have a garage sale to earn the money to buy one.   I needed a little more than $100. So I had my garage sale, made the money plus some and bought my lens from amazon. HERE  It is a Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 II . As soon as I received it in the mail I started using it.  We had found this old chair at J's Grandparents house and it has been sitting in our utility room.

It's old, worn, the color is not too bad.  What do you think?

I kind of want to sand it down, re-paint it a brighter turquoise color then sand it down to give it the old, worn, look again.  But right now it is sufficient as is.  I might be on the look out to find more chairs of this nature. 

I set the chair up toward the back of our yard next to some purple flowers, put Z on it, who by-the-way was already in this pretty dress and shot away.  Most of the pics were taken with a f/1.8 or f/2 setting.  I forget what my ISO was, most likely 100 or 200. We were in complete shade, although I noticed on a few photos we had some sunlight come in.  The fun was to the subject's right side and it was around 5 pm.  I tried to get my auto focus to be on their eyes because I heard that this helps with getting the color of their eyes out. I don't know if that is right but I do think it helped.  

Look at those bright blue eyes!

I really love how the lens can blur out the background!  A lot better then my kit lens can. 

BTW... my son is shirtless.  It was a hot, muggy day today so he was running around in his underwear all day.

So much cuteness wrapped up in a small package!

I changed some to black and white because they were a little overexposed.  Just a little side note I do not have photoshop or any other editing program other than Picasa 3.  Although I want to take pictures in RAW I don't yet and won't until I have a decent editing program.  I did the "I feel lucky" action on a few of these.  Cropped some and then changed the overexposed ones to black and white. 

She is even cute in black and white

A few more of my favorites.

Look at her eyes!

I'm sure this is a crop. Look at that cute pout face!