So this is our first Christmas / Chanukah together as a family in our own house! I think that's pretty exciting. We are all really thrilled about being able to continue and create traditions revolving around the holidays. So far we've kinda fallen down on the whole lighting the menorah thing - we have done it once. Tonight will be twice, and I think it's the 5th night. We'll work on it! We have put up a Christmas tree though, and decorated it with lights. We have no ornaments, but that's cool -- the tree we got is working hard enough to hold up its own limbs; ornaments could be trouble. Sadly, I don't have any good full body shots of the tree; I've been too obsessed with being "artsy." Sorry about that!
I know you can't really tell, but that fuzzy glow behind Cole is our menorah burning brightly, delivering the Jews from darkness 5000 years ago:
2 comments:
I live in awe of Kim's and your hand steadiness down at the crazy f-stops.. I don't know how you do it.
@CatSpit: These were all taken at f/1.4, which ended up meaning shutter speeds of 1/60 sec or faster. With a 50mm lens like this, that should be easy to hand-hold without camera shake.
Tricky is the other end of the aperture-shutter range, where you have like f/20 or whatever, and shutter times that are much longer.
The rule of thumb: you should be able to hand-hold at shutter speeds up to the reciprocal of the lens length, so up for 1/50 for this 50mm "normal" lens, up to 1/200 for a 200mm zoom lens, up to 1/10 for a 10mm fisheye lens, etc.
(Jargon aside, you do have consistently great photos here & on your Flickr stream :-)
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