Gadgets

So, not a terribly serious post, but i had a wonderful day buying cool stuff for my camera. I bought:

1/ A Hoya 77mm linear polarizer! What?!! A linear one! that won't allow auto focus on a digital camera! CRAZY TALK! i bought it so i can take long exposures during the day. how does this work i hear you ask? (well i imagine that if you are a photo nerd then maybe you are asking this); it works by being stacked on top of my circular polarizer, and then i change the angle of my linear polarizer, and hey presto! neutral density filter! So why didn't i just buy a neutral density filter? well, because they cost almost as much as the last camera lens i bought, that's why! So for $60 bucks I can now take exposures 30secs long in BRIGHT DAYLIGHT. hello cool water trails and waterfalls and movement and stuff. fingers crossed i can pull off a good shot using it.

2/ A wireless remote. Now i can take a photo by pointing a remote at my camera. it doesn't get lazier than this my friends. Or more fun, seriously. take my photo below. i got to pash my husband AND take a photo at the same time. Truly a thing of joy, beauty and wonder.



The other benefit of my wireless remote is so i can take long exposure night time photos. Star trails and moon rise photos, and just generally awesome night time pics. Now i just need to get out of the city.

3/ A spare battery. not terribly exciting. but necessary so i can do the things the first two purchases allow.

So when will i get to use my cool new toys? Well, I am going camping in 2 weeks on the long weekend. I will have 3 glorious full moon nights to photograph to my hearts content in the great otway national park. it has beaches, rivers and waterfalls so i can experiment to my hearts content. i really can't wait. i want to be there right now.

Also coming camping will be Brett (the husband) and a bunch of friends. Don't tell them this, but the reason i suggested we go away for the long weekend was purely so i can take photos. oh! and there are so many koalas in cape otway! i will be sure to take some koala snaps too. we might not have squirrels, but we have koalas. if only they were everywhere like squirrels are.