Taking a break: November 2010

Canon Powershot S90 -- 28 mm - 1/500 s - f 2.0 - ISO 80

A quite nice coincidence has happened as I randomly ran into pictures of a very thick fog in Toronto. Inspired by a number of very nice photos, I quickly realized that I never actually took photos of fog and would be rather clueless on what to look out for when doing so, and for this reason, I decided to find a guide.
Now get this: I read this guide on Monday evening, and as I woke up yesterday morning at 7:00 am (I even considered sleeping longer, but decided there would be some things that I should rather do than sleep - seven hours is enough, stop worrying about my sleeping patterns, everybody!) -, I indeed found a fog right outside.
Never before have I managed to get myself ready so quickly. I was outside at about 7:10 am.
Now, taking pictures of fog is still harder than the guide makes it look like. Most importantly, it takes a lot of experience (although that's true for any type of photography). You also might want to be better prepared than I was (gloves for cold temperatures were never mentioned in the guide!) and simply have more time and maybe more patience, too. I only had around an hour of time before it started becoming quite bright already. Then I had to go back to my apartment and finally go to university.
Today's photo was taken on my way to university.

Canon EOS 60D -- Sigma 50mm 1.4 - 1/80 s - f 1.4 - ISO 100

Okay, here's a story.
On Friday, I went to the city center, and while walking around, I found a large electronics store. I decided to go inside without an actual idea of what to do there. There was a sign which said what I can find where, I idly checked all the items... and found that it has a photography section. Well, obviously it does, I just didn't think about it before.
The thing is that I very quickly got lost there, first giggling at the prices and cameras offered (consumer-oriented, and consumers don't know what's good for them), and then found the dSLR section, with lots of nice cameras and lenses behind glass. After a few minutes, I finally got that courage to ask one of the salesmen to provide me with a camera.
To cut things short: this photo is the result of me toying around with a camera and an objective that I held in my hands for the very very first time. In a mall! I mean, can you actually imagine a more unfriendly environment to take pictures?
So here's my impression: I won't get around buying myself a dSLR and a 50mm f 1.4 objective, most likely the Sigma one, in fact. That's around 1,500 €. We'll see when I will have that money :)