to the zoo jane!

elephant
Originally uploaded by prawn wombat

come weekend i was just itching to get out and shoot something. We decided to head out to the zoo in the morning. As usual our mornings start around 1pm on weekends! it was like 4 years since we last came here and conditions have improved for the better. a very hazy day, i thought it would be best light for photography....i was wrong, everything has a hazy cast even though i used a UV filter. good thing was it wasn't too hot to walk around.

Armed with the 14-42mm kit lens and mode set to iauto, i was busy walking around snapping away with my wife on the camcorder and daughter with her Kodak PnS. I realised that many of the nice animals i wanted to take was just too far away...the tiger, lions, bears, zebras. Most of my images turned out to be simple snapshots. I was simply not feeling this camera. a quick look through my daughters snaps, she was taking better more vivid pictures with her kodak. could have bought 4 PnS cameras at this price.

Day1 with the E-P1

Day1 with the E-P1
Originally uploaded by prawn wombat

So my wife quietly goes out and buys an Olympus E-P1, while i was waiting in line to go get tickets for a movie with my daughter. She managed to grab a silver twin lens kit...over the counter too. Very lucky lah because this was just launched like 2 weeks earlier and a lot of people have been waiting for this, some have even booked and paid in advance.

The next morning I just took off the cap and after a few minutes of fiddling with the settings took this first shot. Taken with the kit lens wide open at iso1600. The cap looked tack sharp even though there was a lot of noise in the background (id like to think of that as art). Its been quite awhile since i last took a photograph, usually using and editing other people's pictures. I must say after taking this, i am definitely hooked!