I follow a lady on You Tube by the name of Kim Grant. She is a very good photographer. She produces a video a week about her experiences whilst out photographing, mostly in Scotland where she lives.
Kim covers a range of different types of photography from Landscape (although she seems to be going off that lately) through abstract & surreal to macro. I must admit she isn’t covering portrait (which I’m ok with) or street (which I’m not too disappointed with, but only because I have other sources for that topic).
About a year ago, I spent £200 on a new macro lens for my DSLR. I’ve used it twice. Neither time was particularly successful. It has got to the point where I actually went on to MBP (a very popular site for selling photographic equipment) and priced up how much I would get if selling my kit. Not as much as I thought. I didn’t sell.
Back to Kim, a few weeks ago she did a video on macro photography it was an exercise in patience. Quite simply, not hunting out photographic subjects. Instead she sat on the lawn and let the subjects come to her. I thought I’d try it.
Sat in a chair, camera on tripod within seconds, a butterfly settled on my thumb that was holding the camera. It came back two more times. I couldn’t photograph it, every time I moved, I disturbed it. The two bumblebees were a bit more successful, but I found it a bit of a nightmare aiming the camera I did get some pictures but they are so bad that I’m not going to share them.
Clearly, I need to practice more.
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