A new camera

I got a new camera today! My very own DSLR, Canon T3i. 

So far I only have the kit 18-55mm lens, but I'm hoping to pick up a 50mm prime soon.  I also need to look into getting bigger SD cards.  The continuous shooting makes it so easy to fill up 4GBs, especially if im shooting in raw.

The snow melted off and I decided to go out and play with my new camera. It was so cold I couldn't manipulate the manual controls, so I set the camera to shutter priority, and opened the aperture all the way.  I was still able to manipulate the focus, so I tried shooting in auto and manual.  I also decided to shoot in RAW, in order to have more control over the final image.

I'm quite satisfied with the depth of field the lens achieved.  I also used the flash, because I wanted to use a low ISO, and a fast shutter speed to negate the wind.  The flash made the background really dark, but that's OK, it looks nice. Then I played around with the adjustments on the raw file file until I had a picture I liked.