OK, enough taking photos of new equipment, time to use the new equipment to take photos.

I used the tripod today. I like the stability of it a lot. I also used my timer remote shutter release (a lot). I had a bunch of shots tonight, nothing was doing it for me. I was focusing on this lantern thing that I found at a store today and bought for my wife (really, I did buy it for her, I just stole it to photograph it for a while). I was trying all kinds of lighting, using a strobe to light the interior. I switched to a candle, but it still wasn't doing it for me. While looking for something to add to the photo, I realized the flowers from Valentines Day (That I photographed 2+ weeks ago) were still alive (well, kind of). This flower, lit by the soft glow of candlelight was just what this setting needed. I switched lenses (from my 28 to my 100) and changed the composition entirely, making the flower the subject (versus the lantern in the other 100+ shots).

Live view again comes in handy, getting pretty precise focus. I tried a number of different shutter speeds, amazed at how easily the highlights on the petals are blown out in this soft light. I actually had Post Processed and settled on another photo (2.5s shutter) and then did another check of some of the other photos, I liked this one, the highlights were softer, lighting in general was softer, and I liked the tonal range.

This time I kept it in color (which was my original intent). I might even load up some film into the Yashica and give it a whirl...