Hello and good night everyone!

Alone, in the middle of the forest.

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF-S10-18mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 IS STM
Focal length: 10 mm
Aperture: ƒ/6.3
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

All those other trees around and no-one to talk to.

Man, it is hard to focus this lens.

I originally got the ultrawide Canon EFS 10-18 mm to do some real estate photography, but it turned out this lens isn't suitable, as it doesn't want to cooperate. When I pre-set the focus to something and set it to manual focus to remote trigger it, it starts focusing by itself.

Now when I try to shoot in near darkness I can't focus on anything because I can't see anything. (Without an external light source that is. And tonight, I didn't bring my external portable floodlight which I don't even have, with me.)

Oh well. I eventually managed to get a near satisfactory focus out of the thing. Surprisingly it took me only 4 tries this time. I've been grinding my teeth over the lens quite a few times already. Maybe I'm starting to get the hang of it, eventually.

I hope you like the picture. I'll be going to bed because I'm still feeling the sinusoids be kinda bad. Gotta flush me nose first though.

See you again tomorrow, with another cool shot! :)

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