I Need to FOCUS!

For those of you who don't know, I love taking pictures of things. And I kind of need to because I am in Photography class. I don't particularly enjoy life in that class, but that's a different story. Regardless, I like taking pictures. :] I especially like my daddy's high tech expensive digital SLR that I get to use for class. Ironically, I rarely use it for class because I'm too afraid of hurting it. >.<

Photography has a lot to do with lenses and mirrors because, well, they're on the cameras. My fancy camera also has mirrors inside that make sure the picture is upright and such, and you can see them if you take off the camera lens, which, by the way, is changeable. I once had to change it out for my dad's wide angle lens, which as we know, is a converging lens, and I've been wanting a fisheye lens, which, as we know, is a diverging lens that distorts the image and makes everything look all bulgy.

Anyway, I chose to take the picture of my awesome camera from the side to focus on the length of the lens. Pictures need to be in focus to be considered good. And my cameras have a function called autofocus, which really comes in handy. This big camera uses a computer to calculate how best to make things in focus. But my little black point and shoot sends out a little infrared beam which gets returned and tells the camera how far away the object is. Either way, the camera has to adjust the distance between the object and the lens so that the image will be in focus where it matters the most: on the tiny mirrors. all the light has to meet at one point, and the camera has to figure out how far the lens needs to be from the subject to make that one point. So if you have ever seen me take a picture, you watch the camera lens move around a bit before taking the picture. That, my friend, is physics in action. :]

Fourth quarter! Almost there! Extended this week! And I turn 17 on Wednesday! AIYA! >.< Hope everyone has a great week!