A Few Photos from Texas

For Christmas, I got an amazing new lens for my camera, the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens. I had my eye on this lens specifically because its an affordable lens that can be used to achieve a really shallow depth of field because you can really crank the aperture wide-open. In non-photo jargon (which I don't know that much of anyways), that means you can get a really sharp focus on one tiny spot of the photo and sort of just have the rest fall away into blurriness. Mmmmm, sexy! Anyways, my dad and I went on a little adventure on his birthday (which is just two days after Christmas) up to Lake Texoma, right on the border of Texas and Oklahoma. He was looking for fossils but didn't fare too well because the lake was too high and covering them all up, but I wanted to test out my new lens and I think I fared a bit better than he did! Here are a few snaps I took:









I really like how the shallow depth of field allowed me to capture the sparse and barren nature of the Texas plains. If all the background details has been clogging up the photos, I don't think they would have been nearly as effective! Of course, this lens doesn't auto-focus on my Nikon D60 so I have to try to focus all on my own which can be a bit challenging and resulted in practically a metric ton of blurry shots. Also, I'm really getting into square format photos. I've found myself cropping nearly everything to a square recently! Well, as I've said before, I am a total amateur at photography- everything I know I've learned online. So, if ya'll have any brilliant photo insights or feedback, feel free to share away!