Lenses and Photography

Photograph © Joey Lawrence

My birthday present [one of them anyway] from Sue-Ann was a 90-300mm zoom lens, bought at Gatwick airport on our way to Thailand. On buying it I soon found out it lacked a necessary feature - IS or Image Stability.
The lens handled pretty decently at around 150 - 200mm, but take it above that and it leaves it’s comfort zone. The image shake is similar to that of a white lighting connoisseur who hasn’t had a drink in 2 days.

Long story short, I took the lens back, and have been on the lookout ever since. I was set to buy a 70-300mm with IS from eBay, but fate had it that the bids kept going too high. That’s when I noticed Joey Lawrence’s work. He is a 17 year old guy from Canada, his photography is amazing.

I read up on photography alot. My photo’s suck, but I have high aspirations. I found out the lens Joey Lawrence uses is a prime lens [fixed focal length - no zooming]. I never really saw the point in prime lenses, but research revealed alot of people who couldn’t sing it’s praise enough. Prime’s are cheap for their quality, the apertures on them can open much wider, enabling you to take photographs in darker conditions without flash, the photo’s are supposedly much sharper - looking at some photo’s taken with the lens, I had to have one - mine is on it’s way to me from Hong Kong now :]