So, the 70-200 is gone. Can she please get a moment of silence? ……………

Ok, now. In her place, I now have a Sigma 24/F1.8. I am trying to stick with primes, which is partially where this decision came from. I didn’t really need the 70-200L (although I loved her), but I could use a moderately wide prime. The 24/1.8 is wideish on the 30D, but will be super wide (for a prime) when I finally get a 5D, so there is a tad bit of preemptive thinking here. So…

I had to knock off a few shots w/ her last night, as is expected, so I thought I’d share a few of them. They are all taken of my beautiful wife, Sarah. EXIF should be intact for those care to look. They were all taken on my 30D with a bounced flash. Even the stophen couldn’t quite contain the light in an all white room, so in most of these, there is also a New Balance sock pulled over the flash, and they are bounced behind me. The lighting was horrible, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do, right? Almost all of them were taken with the 24/1.8, however, for the last few, I threw on the 85/1.8, which is my favorite lens of all time… I processed these to get the contrasty effect that I like so much, which I think is obvious. I like them a lot.

Again, impromptu with no prep, all handheld, and I haven’t gotten the hang of the new lens yet since it’s the first night with it. I will say, however, that I am in love with it. I’ll throw in a %100 crop to show you why. My favorite shot, with it’s crop, will be last…

Here is the %100 crop. That is freakin AWESOME! Completely SHARP, to the point that you can see my reflection in her eye. To make that a little more impressive, this was WIDE open @F/1.8!