The Beginning

So a few weeks ago I purchased my first ever DSLR camera. The Nikon D60. It's my new baby, my pride and joy. I'm having a ball getting familiar with it. My ultimate goal is to just have fun with it. So far it's brought me loads of joy. I can only imagine how much fun I'll be having with it when Spring finally comes and there's more exciting things to take pics of outdoors.

In the meantime, check out the progression from day 1 with the camera to now:





Finally I was able to take a few quick pictures outside with Daisy in the daylight:









And eventually I got so sick of trying to figure out how to take correct exposures indoors with the awful lighting we have so I purchased Understanding Exposure: How To Shoot Great Photographs With a Film or Digital Camera by Bryan Peterson. This book is incredible. It was beyond enlighting by page 20 of the book. The picture examples to help explain things were beyond helpful. It's a quick read and definitely a book that I will be referring to as needed in the future. I definitely recommend this book to any new DSLR user.

So once I started playing around with what I learned from the book, I was able to get these pictures which were leaps and bounds better than the above photos:

The moral of the story is - I've still got a ton to learn, but I'm going to enjoy it in the meantime :)