When You Try (3 IMAGES)

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Father’s Day turned out to be my lucky day. It seemed the Universe smiled at me saying …. Let’s see you capture what I am showing you.

That morning I saw Whispers and Sassy sunning themselves on our kitchen floor. SO many (too many times) in the past I hesitated and didn’t even try to get a shot like what I saw in front of me. This is not an easy shot by no means, shooting into the light and having extreme contrasts.

Instead of loosing this opportunity I flipped my camera on Auto Intelligent (I can count on my one hand when I have used this shooting mode.) and pushed the shutter button. When I looked at my LCD my Heart jumped for utter Joy! YES! Can the smile on Whispers’ face be any bigger? (the cat closest to the door)

Later that same day I went for a bike ride but it was so blazing hot I turned around at the 3 mile mark and headed for home. I didn’t budge from our air-conditioned house when I did get home until later that afternoon. I decided to shoot flowers. And so I did.

Well, I was in my front garden which is in front of our living room trying to get set up to shoot this Rose. Carefully as I was placing my feet in that garden so as not to step on any flowers ….

I saw Rusty on a chair by the living room window. My settings on my camera were manual mode, manual focus, single shot, and shooting at a very low shutter speed. Instead of despairing and loosing another opportunity to get a mind boggling shot (which I had no idea to the extent of which at the time!) I brought Rusty into focus, checked the light meter, and when I saw the little red dot in the middle turn red indicating that the picture was in focus, I depressed the shutter speed immediately. I again attempted to get Rusty in focus to get another shot. That one blurred, however, and was deleted.

Here is that photograph that I honestly don’t think I could ever replicate. Shutter speed was 1/13th of a second. For those of you who don’t understand, that is a very slow shutter speed, one that many photographers will only use with a tripod. To shoot a moving cat the optional shutter speed would be no lower then 1/120th of a second. See the Miracle I created …

Is this not unbelievable? That is Rusty as seen through the living room window with my shadow reflecting off the front of the very same window. Like I said I don’t think I could replicate this. What a fascinating shot!

See what happens IF you at least try? I was tempted to pass this last shot up and the first one as well, but finally I’m getting to a place that says …. No! At the very least I will try!

Photography/ “When You Try”/ June 2018©AmyRose
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