New Lens

 

I'm out of town and I've depleted my posting queue so I'm going to have to go on autopilot for the next couple of days. On the opening day of the new bridge on I-70 I was playing around with my birthday present, a 55 mm f/1.8  prime lens. Vincent's first prime, ah-coochie-coo. Since focal lengths are extended on cropped sensors, and I'm shooting with a Nikon D5200 which has one, the 55 mm focal length is a little long for general purpose shooting. So I missed several things on the bridge that I couldn't back up far enough to capture.  Why I wanted that specific lens first, as opposed to a potentially more practical 35 mm lens, was for portraiture. In short, the 55 mm lens, in my price range, has a far superior quality of blur in the defocused areas. Better ''bokeh' so photography geeks say. 

Here are Yours Truly above and Wife Face K below captured with the new lens. While I'm not thrilled with my double chin and I am quite happy with the photographic results.  

nb: I am working anachronistically, the squirrel cookie jar photos were the first to show up on this blog with the 55 mm prime.