Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point

The weather's getting colder and quite frankly, things outside aren't as photogenic as they were a month or so ago so we decided to hit The Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. I had been there before, but I didn't have the lenses I have now, so it was fun to go back through and shoot with new glass. The museum is pretty dark, so my 50 mm f/1.4 got a lot of work. I also used my Sigma 10-20 where I could.

The whole set can be viewed here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoeyez99/sets/72157622903418530/

Christmas Tree, 2009

Mushna's been excited to get the Christmas tree up this year. On the way home from Thanksgiving at Grandma's, she realized she could "legally" set it up tonight. Here are some shots of the set up. I'll post something once it's all finished.

New Lens November

I was asked to shoot one of Mushna's friends' wedding here in a few weeks. I was concerned with my lenses at the shorter/wider end so I went to Pictureline to look at options.

Part of me really wanted to go full steam ahead with the 24-70 f/2.8L, but I ended up settling for a couple of primes instead, the Canon 50 mm f/1.4 and the Canon 35 mm f/2. While the L glass would have been nice, I think these two lenses will do just fine, plus this combination was about $500-$600 cheaper than the 24-70.

I headed out for some test shots the other night. These are pretty much straight out of the camera, some sharpening applied in Adobe Camera Raw because I shoot in Raw.

The Canon 35 mm f/2:










The 50 mm f/1.4:













Pixel peeping, I find the 35 mm might be slightly sharper than the 50, but overall, both lenses seem to perform really well.

The 35 mm suffers from some chromatic aberration and softness at the edges, but it seems to be very slight on my cropped sensor body.

I'm happy with both purchases.