The dogs seem to be fine so I can finally relax and have fun with my new camera gear. The UPS man kindly left on the back porch while I was out. The flash isn't here yet but I get to play with the wide angle lens and the remote release.
You can see some distortion in the background of the wide angle shots, but it's actually much less pronounced than I expected. I only took a couple of photos today before round-up mania took over. But I noticed already that it's really true what they say: the wide angle effect works better the closer you get to the subject. I read that to take good photos with a wide angle lens, you have to learn how to shove your camera into people's faces. I don't know if I'll ever be able to do that! But in any case, I'm looking forward to getting out and having fun with it.
I got the remote release not so much to take photos of myself, but for low-light photos. I've found that the camera is so sensitive that even with a tripod I couldn't get sharp photos at night: just pressing the button caused camera shake. This ought to solve that problem. And also let me take photos of myself.
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