Day 008

Snow in Georgia!  It's really cold outside so I did not spend much time trying to get things right, so the pictures probably aren't the best, but I like them all the same :)  The kicker is-- wait for it-- this got school cancelled today!  Can you believe it??  A dusting that's not even on the roads cancelled school.  I guess there is the real fear of ice and the fact that no one native to GA knows how to drive when there may be ice, but still... anyway, these were all taken in my front yard.  I do not know much about metering and thus did not meter for snow, which is probably pretty noticable.  But that's okay... for now ;)

(35mm lens, exposure time: 1/800 sec., f/1.8, ISO 200, no flash)
Love the one centered bush surrounded by blurriness.  Not so fond of how bright the snow is compared to the bush, which could have been fixed with metering, but I don't know how yet.

(35mm lens, exposure time: 1/800 sec., f/1.8, ISO 200, no flash)
I like the bokeh.  I meant to focus on the brown leaf but as you can see, did not quite get it right.  Oops!  It was too cold to try again (you know, if I had known prior to looking at this on the computer).  But I do like just the little bit of in-focus bush/snow and the rest blurry winteriness.

(35mm lens, exposure time: 1/800 sec., f/1.8, ISO 200, no flash)
This picture is probably the one that could have benefited most from metering, since the snow was so bright but still looks sort of grey, if that makes sense.  Part of that is shadows and how the sun was shining, but part of it is not.