Dusting Off The Rebel...

Over the weekend I decided to get the Rebel out to see if it still worked. It does but I'm not so sure about me. I was shooting in AV mode and my picture were very dark. You would think that after taking a couple of online photography classes and partially reading some books that I could have figured out what was going on. At first, I did not so I switched over to manual and my pictures came out fine, back to AV, still dark. I then realized that I just needed to change the light meter. How did I not know this (or did I) and why were my pictures always light enough before, was it luck or did I just forget about this very important step. Anyway we ( the Rebel and I are working fine now) and I can't wait to take some photos now that I've remembered/figured this out.
I have a niece that has volunteered to let me take a few photos of her for practice. Katie, when are you available? I'm ready anytime.

My One Little Word for 2010...

Ali Edwards has been doing this for a few years and I've decided to play along this year. Last year my life seemed very hectic, crazy a bit unbalanced if you will so I've decided that my one little word for this year will be BALANCE. I'll be taking pictures thoughout the year and making them into a mini album.
A few months ago I signed up for Cathy Zielske's DYL class which started yesterday and already I'm a bit behind. I plan to work on that a little later today. I've also signed up for Stacy Julians LOM class at BPS which starts next month. And last but not least I ordered a Project Life kit from Becky Higgins to work on thoughout the year. Sounds like alot for a person trying to find some balance in her life but I'm hoping with all these things to do I can avoid the winter blues which I seem to get once the holidays are done. Besides that I recieved a really great Christmas present from my husband which will come in quite handy for all the above. Take a look...a Canon T1i...ain't she pretty and how bout that awesome camera strap which was order from http://www.happysnapz.etsy.com/.

Here's to finding a little BALANCE...
SUSI

Moving Up...

To a better camera, I hope! It's still a point and shoot but my Sony Cybershot seemed to be taking lots of blurry pictures (maybe it was me) who knows? Not sure I'm ready to move up to an SLR yet. I've charged the battery, set up a bit of it, skimmed the instruction booklet (there's alot of stuff in there), played with it a little and am ready to try it out at the ZOO tomorrow. My little "techie " daughter will be there also, she'll figure this thing out in a heartbeat (even without the instruction booklet). So be prepared for lots of pictures.

Here it is "The Nikon Coolpix P80"

If you have one of these let me know what you think of it? PLEASE!