New Camera

We bought a new camera a couple months ago. Our point and shoot wasn't fast enough to catch all the adorableness our baby was kicking out. Initially, the speed was a big deal because we were missing her new, teeny tiny baby smiles. The flash was so bright or slow or just wrong that by the time the photo took she looked a combination of scared and pissed off. Not exactly how you want to remember your new little angel. So, enter the New Camera. It is insanely fancy. It even has a fancy name. It's called a Cannon Rebel T2i. I don't even know what the "T," "2," or "i" is in reference to, but "Rebel" sounded just dangerous enough to the fit bill. We're edgy like that. Anyway, the camera can do all kinds of artsy things like hinting at motion or blurring the background. At the very least, it can catch a baby smile.

Example: motion

Example: blurred Cooper

So, there should have been this very stark difference in our photos from our dumpy, sad old POS and our hip, audacious new SLR. Sadly, it was not to be. The manual for the oppositional-defiant camera is long, fraught with acronyms and laden with cross-referencing. Not hip. Not audacious. So, for a bit (okay, months) it was just a glorified point and shoot. Worse, actually. We had the focus points (almost certainly not the right term) set up wrong so sometimes it would focus on the door knob behind the child, rather than her cherub face. Dumb. We finally wised up and took a class. I couldn't bring myself to delete the bad photos though. She's too cute. Even fuzzy and out of focus.

Example: out of focus cuteness

Example: out of focus cuteness #2 (also illustrative of inability to toss aforementioned cutes)

Little by little, we're figuring things out. Our biggest issue at this point may be editing. See flip book below: