My enthusiasm about
our region’s autumn butterflies and the Mobile Botanical Gardens compels this
response to comments that fellow bloggers have left on my Butterfly Mania post.
Gigi, Marcia, Muffy,
Dianne, Sandra, and Sue, thanks for the encouragement about my photographic
efforts post stroke. It helps more than you could imagine.
Lyn, thanks for the
reminder about the continuous shooting option. I have that setting on my Canon,
too. I am excited that I can try that right now, even while I am still working
on getting function back in my left arm and hand.
Your tripod
suggestion is for the future. Right now, operating my little Canon Power Shot
A590 with one hand is what I can do without help. I look forward to eventually
implementing both suggestions.
In fact, the final
connection on our return from our West Coast trip was delayed from 7:45 p.m. to
10 p.m. on Sunday. I spent time
playing with my camera, taking snapshots of My FOOT among other things. I
avoided pointing at people. I didn’t want to aggravate the other weary and
frazzled travelers around us, all waiting and hoping that the aircraft that
would take us to the Mississippi Gulf Coast would eventually appear at the
Houston gate.
Dianne, I do hope you get to visit the
Mobile Botanical Gardens.
The governing folks
of the non-profit gardens appointed my favorite local garden columnist as executive
director not too many months ago, and he already has things hopping at this
modest operation.
Sue, for the closeup
of the butterfly wing’s underside that you mentioned, I cheated. It is a
tightly cropped version of the original below.
Original photo
Cropped version
Use of telephoto
would require a tripod; macro setting requires getting close. Both are
challenges.
My closeup strategy
these days is to hold my camera as close as possible without toppling over. I
can rarely see the screen in sunshine, and neither screen nor viewfinder is an
option for targets close to the ground. I just try to have the lens pointed in a direction that
may capture the subject. Sometimes it feels like photography by Braille.
I admire your efforts and your enthusiasm. I keep thinking I want to get a new camera and learn how to use it, but it all seems so complex.
ReplyDeleteI have been bogged down too much to read posts. Once I am moved, I'll be back. Take care!
I think your butterfly pictures are awesome! I tried photographing some butterflies, in the garden, and I had a very difficult time--even using two hands!
ReplyDeleteThe butterflies have really enjoyed my volunteer zinnias this fall--and I've enjoyed both the zinnias and the butterflies!
I completely understand the feeling of photography by braille.
ReplyDeleteHalf the time I really don't know what I'm doing.
Just keep on practicing and "playing".
The entire sculpture of the woman including the shower streams is carved wood. It really is an amazing piece.
As all artists know, cropping (or cutting out the crap) is one of the most important parts of the creative process.
ReplyDeleteI am simply amazed that you can use a camera at all with the use of just one good hand. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteha ha on the braille photography, i say what ever works to get a snap and i do a lot of cropping, i just don't mention it. cropping is a good thing. can't tell you how many shots i took of my toes when i got my first Rebel, i would put it on a setting and snap and again and again, it was like lightning in our living room. part of the reason bob named me MadSnapper
ReplyDeleteI have a heavy Minolta camera I haven't used in a dozen years. I had a tripod for it, but gave it to my granddaughter. A cute little camera wihout a tripod works well. Mage over at Postcards has just such a camera and takes stunning photos. Dianne
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