Self Portrait With Doors

 
Morning folks - whilst we're waiting for the film stuff to drop as the kids say these days . . . here's a little digital oddity. 

And please don't worry film fans, consider this as an interlude in between the main meat and potatoes and the B-film. 
Look, there's an usherette down at the front, go and get yourself a Strawberry Mivvi and sit back down!

I recently bought myself a remote control (ML-L3) for the Nikon F750 and initially thinking it was knackered (apparently they don't work very well with Duracells) I decided to test it, and ended up with the picture you see below.

Self Portrait With Doors

It is quite a distance from the camera to me, and the control worked perfectly - all you need is a line of sight to the camera . . you don''t even have to point it EXACTLY at it, just its general vicinity.

The weird thing is, I am decidedly happy with said photo . . . 

As a long-time, now non-time, reader once said, I am always putting doors and gates and windows in pictures - could it be some weird Freudian indication of my inner feelings about art and self-expression? To which I will reply, after some years of reflection (and in the words of the psychiatrist in High Anxiety):

 . . Bullshit . . .

I just like them (doors, windows, gates etc etc).

Anyway, the journey to said photograph begins in the manner below - please bear in mind that I was playing, and as such, absolve myself of all responsibility as to their content or merit and the lack of . . . .

I think they're quite funny including the no-holds-barred horror selfie (5th photo).

Nice And Comfy

Is This Thing Working?

The Light Didn't Go On

It Didn't Go On Again

F'ing Technology - It's Still Not Going Off!

Maybe It Did That Time

Calm Returns - How Far Can This Thing Reach?

And that''s it!

Briefer than a wrong-way-around sparkly mankini!!

The lens was a 50mm f1.4 AF-G Nikkor - they're reasonably cheap for a prime and give an excellent quality image - well worth exploring. 

The remote is actually incredibly useful.

I've used it since like a faux cable release and MLU lever in a situation whereby the camera was precariously balanced on its tripod, on a bunch of brambles and was leaning into the subject - it worked great, zero movement and the added convenience of not getting your danglers entangled in sharp and scratchy bits.

When spare time comes and revisits me, then I shall get myself out with some more film, but in the meantime, and in the interests of keeping my fingers and brain engaged, thank you for reading.

It's a daft post, I completely agree.

TTFN and keep taking the pills y'bampot.

H xx