100 Prime

In my quest to fill my bag with all prime lenses, along with the photos I will be taking in the near future, I purchased the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM from Woodward Camera yesterday.

I snapped some test shots earlier this morning to test it’s portrait and macro capabilities before I take it out in the wild.

I was able to utilized the natural light coming through the South facing window in our living room for both shots.

I wanted to bump the f-stop up for the portrait, but there wasn’t enough light, so I ended up keeping it at 2.8

1/60 sec @ Æ’/2.8, ISO 400

The sun was shining bright when I started to test the macro capabilities, so I was able to bump the f-stop up a little to capture more detail.

Below is the macro of a cured flower from the “Paradise Island” cola (pictured above) I shot a couple weeks ago for Cannabis Family Seeds.

1/320 sec @ Æ’/6.3, ISO 400

I highly recommend checking out the high res version of the macro by CLICKING HERE!

My Mother-In-Law

Two years ago, today, my Mother-In-Law passed away.

On August 5, 2012, I shot this portrait of her for a movie casting website that she had signed up with.

To be honest, I didn’t really know much about off camera flash photography going into the shoot.

It was the first portrait that I shot with my new off camera strobe setup that I thought was worthy enough to put my watermark on.