Ta Da!

Now and it is time to reveal my most awesomest Christmas present...My Canon T3i camera!!! With some very generous Christmas gift donations, winning money from a Pioneer Woman give-away and saving my lunch money, I was able to purchase my camera this weekend! I was going to order it from Amazon and just get the camera body and a 50mm lens, but Best Buy had a good sale with a bunch of bonus things, like a telephoto lens, memory card, UV filter and bag, so I went with the lens kit at Best Buy (and I have it on good authority that Santa will be bringing my nifty fifty lens that I really really want :)  But this camera is totally awesome. Say goodbye to flash photography! These pictures below were taken in the kitchen with the lights on, which isn't super challenging light, but OMG - the pictures in the living room with just the reading light on - AWESOME! It's like daylight. I do get a lot of blurry pictures with the 18mm-55mm kit lens because the aperture isn't real low/high on the lens so the shutter speed is low, but I think the nifty fifty will fix that :) And the shutter response time is amazing! Yeah, I'm either going to have to learn how to delete pictures or I'm going to need another external hard drive pretty soon. Good thing I have a 16 hour car ride tomorrow to read the manual a few times over. These dslr cameras are complex pieces of equipment! But, ugh! I love it!

*Disclaimer: Before I could go to Best Buy, I was told I needed to make note of the fact that I have a super awesome husband that let me get my camera before Christmas and didn't make me wait to open it until Christmas*