Greg, Good to know that you decided to stick around PF for a little while still... ...-;) We've all felt the cold breadth of the Great Mower come close to our neck at one time or another and I hope we all still have many tricks left in our bag to fool Her. By the looks of the car remnants, you played your cards really well on this one... But don't EVER do that again, as my Mom would say! Many, many moons ago, after many bloody hours in the OR and days in intensive care and hospitalization, I was able to convince the Great Mower that roughly 9 months with a cast on a leg (including another surgery to break the leg again) would be "just fine" with me. With a little practice, I was able to run around town (and bars...) with a pair of crutches as if I had been born that way. The tough part came when I had to learn that one can walk normally without a cast. Greg said: > Have you ever tried to focus a manual focus > camera with only one useable hand? Unless you want to shoot everything at > f22 and you find zone focusing good enough, your screwed. I'm sure the next time you doctor checks your cast, he'll find a couple of quick-release camera plates, clamps, flexible shutter release and other Omnipod-type accessories (including beverage holder...) attached to it.... Alternatively, you could shift to the Pinhole list. Here, there are no batteries, no lens focusing knobs, no aperture setting rings, no viewfinder, no TTL metering. All you need is a piece of black electrical tape as a shutter. Have you considered turning your cast into a picture-making contraption... With very best wishes for a very quick and easy recovery, Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Fraser" <fraserg@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:34 AM Subject: Re: PF Exhibits on 09-25-04 > > Your photo was fine and it is really good you survived ... > > ... but couldn't you have used PS to clone in/ paint in some deep red > > claret? > > Maybe even a few body-parts splatted over the windscreen ... an ox-liver > > from the butcher strategically placed (not the whole liver actually) ... > > would add some "gore-interest". > Amen to that brother. Actually my wife took the shots with a disposable > camera. I would loved to be able to pick up a digital camera and quickly > shoot some props to spice up the shot but up until now my photo gear > philosophy has been to shy away from anything automatic. Ideally my cameras > don't even use batteries. However, yesterday I was feeling quite frisky > since I got a whole 4 hours sleep the night before, so I decided to take a > camera on my walk in the park. Have you ever tried to focus a manual focus > camera with only one useable hand? Unless you want to shoot everything at > f22 and you find zone focusing good enough, your screwed. > > Now I hope to have enough money from my settlement to buy my first ever > brand new camera but that'll probably be years down the road. My doctor told > me yesterday that I will hopefully have full use of my broken arm in about 6 > months. I've gone 6 months without shooting before.....I think. Well there's > always instant cameras. > > Greg >
