On Friday, I received my Nikkor AF-S 85mm f1.8G lens in the mail from Best Buy - it is on sale for $450 with free two day shipping! AHHH! I've read great reviews about this lens for portrait shots and wanted a lens with great bokah within my budget. I took it out of the box and started snapping pictures of Natalie (such a poser - lol). At a reasonable distance ~3 feet from her, this was what I got: ARGH!

F1.8 1/250 ISO400 with flash & flash-diffuser

500 dollars later (including a $40 UV filter), I found it impossible to use the 85mm f1.8g on baby portrait indoors. Unless I choose to start yelling across the room to get my subjects to change poses, or drop thousands and purchase a FX DSLR, I think I am going to set this badboy aside for outdoor shoots only.

The perfect opportunity came the next morning. My mom and I took Channing to the Chantilly Air and Space museum hoping to exhaust Channing before the storm which was expected to arrive early in the afternoon. By the time we left the parking lot, the roads were covered in 1 inch of snow. The wind created some neat effects on the photos:

Once we got home, I dragged my mom (AKA my designated model) outside to take some shots in the snow. We were only out there 10 minutes tops, probably because I had my camera setting fixed at f5 1/250 ISO400 and my mom is a natural poser. She is soooo beautiful!

Check out these photos:

Even the one I didn't photoshop is breathtaking.

Sweet! That's all for me.

Wendy