So I did it
I took my camera out yesterday and I took some photos. While that may not seem like a big deal to most people it is to me.
You see I haven’t taken a photo since the long weekend in May. On the Friday of the May long weekend, I was at a wedding rehearsal for a wedding that I was supposed to photograph the following day.
While we were at rehearsal I ended up breaking my right wrist. My hand came right out of my wrist pocket and well? It was pretty pretty destroyed.
I just had my cast removed this past Wednesday. There’s still a long way to go for my recovery. I have to relearn how to use my right hand and work with a wrist that doesn’t have as much dexterity as it used to but I’ll get there. You can be sure of that.
While I knew I could set up my tripod and my camera in my studio downstairs and take photos of products, I miss being able to take my camera and going outside and taking photos or going on a small road trip like we did yesterday and getting some photos.
I figured if I can set the camera up on the tripod in the studio why can’t I do that out in nature and manipulate the camera out there? LOL, Yes, I know people do it all the time. I do sometimes but mostly I shoot handheld. So, I put my camera on the tripod, thank goodness for those, I released the pan on my tripod head so that I could swivel my camera easily side to side. Then I made sure I put the strap for my camera around my neck so that when I released the tilt for my tripod head I could control how far I tipped the camera forward or pulled it back by pulling on the strap using my neck. I had to do it that way because I can’t hold a camera in my right hand yet. I have enough spread between my thumb and forefinger that I can push the shutter and rest my thumb on the back of the camera.
So the first two photos that you see were taken exactly that way even the second shot with the bee.
I saw the bee and I swiveled my lens towards it and then tilted the camera forward by relaxing the pull with my neck by leaning forward ever so slightly.
The rest of the photos with all of the little barn swallows I did differently. I was inside the shelter I set up my camera on the tripod and I used the outside portion of the wood frame of the shelter for my focus point. After that I just put my camera on rapid fire and anytime one of those little birds got anywhere near that little line of focus I pressed the shutter hoping just hoping I would catch a few of them, they’re so fast, but I did.
They aren’t the best photos by any means but they aren’t a whole lot worse than what I could have done holding the camera freehand that’s for sure!!
So what does all this mean?
Well, it means I’m on my way back.
It means that you and I are going to be working together real soon!!