January 16, 2010-Day 16

It is a beautiful day, so I decided to walk around my neighborhood with my new 50mm 1.4 lens.  Since it has such a wide aperture (1.4-the smaller the number, the wider the aperture), it will allow me to get a very shallow depth of field in my pictures. Basically, this means only a little bit will be in focus and the rest will be blurred, which is called "bokeh" in photography talk.