Show Your Snaps...March 12, 2012

We invite you again to show your own snapshots or even choice pictures.

Yesterday, I went out to one of the local wildlife preserves in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. I thought the weather might be good, but...wouldn't you know it...the rain just started when I got there. The pictures with the EF-S 18-55mm IS lens were taken with my new Canon T2i (550D) that I bought two days ago (my second one). I don't like changing lenses (particularly in the rain), so I now have two Canon T2i (550D) cameras for two EF-S lenses. In the first three pictures, these were taken while it was raining. The last three photos were taken after the rain had stopped. It was a miserable day (with my miserable cold), but I got out anyway. I was happy to catch an image of the chipmunk. This is my first one; they are much harder to capture with the camera than squirrels (at least for me in our area).

Oh, and sometimes I took them at ISO6400 or other crazy settings to see how the camera would perform. I've been known to take them at very low shutter speeds (which I often do); I only wanted to see what they would look like at high ISO levels and so forth. This is what I do when I get new cameras or sometimes just for about any reason or no reason at all.

We will start a new thread for this every week now due to the popularity. I'll be sure to comment also to your images, if you choose to share. Thanks everyone for your participation.

Photo No. 1
Canon T2i (550D), 18-55mm IS lens, ISO1600, F6.3, 1/2500, 28mm FL

Photo No. 2
Canon T2i (550D), 18-55mm IS lens, ISO6400, F10, 1/500, 24mm FL

Photo No. 3
Canon T2i (550D), 18-55mm IS lens, ISO6400, F11, 1/800, 49mm FL

Photo No. 4
Canon T2i (550D), 55-250mm IS lens, ISO1600, F13, 1/100, 250mm FL

Photo No. 5
Canon T2i (550D), 55-250mm IS lens, ISO400, F11, 1/200, 250mm FL

Photo No. 6
Canon T2i (550D), 18-55mm IS lens, ISO100, F9, 1/160, 24mm FL