Potraits from a 10 Year Old / Playing In The Rain Part II

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Helped my niece registering her Facebook the other day and I was schocked when she stated her birthday was in 1998! Dang... she's only 10 and I thought she was already 12!! What a good uncle am I, well I'm never good at dates even my Mom's age I would never remember plus wifey has to remind me (yearly) when her birthday and our annivesary is coming - he he. This is one niece who's very helpful and always care of my younglings especially the ever jumping funky monkey (if you watch Cartoon Network there's this advert for "My Gym Partner is a Monkey" series) Danial.

Anyway, one nite she asked me if she could borrow my gunner. Since the 50mm was stuck onto it (making it light) and me curiously in need to learn of it, I let her shoot with my gunner. To my suprise again... Dang... she took a few great portraits and she was loving the shutter sound. Of coz she didn't know the rule of 3rd (even asked me why cannot see the screen when shooting), the focusing point and tilting the speedlite and also the fact that the lense has no image stablization, but from what I saw in that little small 3" screen, it still amazes me!

And so I did, with a little touch up here there and there you have it. She now feels very happy and wanting to use my gunner even more often.

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As the rain kept pouring down, last weekend witnessed another playing in the rain session. This time with more nieces and nephew. They also had a jump in my Mom's under construction pool. And again (salah budak² jepung lah ni) with the 50mm attached I had ago and due to this I have concluded my search for the next sniping product... a 3rd party 17-50 he he. Costs much much more less than the current product that I was hunting but reviews were very highly recommended.


-R-