If You Give a Mom a Macro

Santa was really good to me this year!

Since I’ve started using it, I’ve been having so much fun getting up close and personal with the knick-knacks in my house. 

Like anything though, there’s a bit of a learning curve involved.

I’ve discovered that I have to take my aperture down a few stops because getting up so close means that the shallow depth-of-field in which I normally shoot is even shallower. 

And a smaller aperture means a slower shutter speed.  And I usually try to keep my shutter speed at least 1/100 to offset any camera shake to get a good sharp image. 

Even still, I’m loving the new challenge and it’s adding a whole new range of things that I can photograph. 

And that makes this momma very happy.

Peace, Kelly