Gig today.
I'd recently moved the lens from my original SLR camera to the DSLR. For some reason, it never occurred to me to just use the more awesome lens I already had when I got that camera in 2007. Luckily, 14 years later, inspiration (finally) struck and I could now play with the macro function without having to figure out where film is still being sold.
All day, I'd been telling The Husband how I wanted to take a portrait of him in clown. I hadn't taken a picture of him in clown without a smartphone in a long time. I really wanted a clown photo made up of many, many pixels.
Finally, 10 minutes before we have to leave, everything is ready, I can take my photo. The light is PERFECT. I'd be able to get all the colors right even with all the high contrasts of light and dark. We go outside. I order tell politely request that the Husband stand in a counterintuitive way on the steps. He immediately follows directions. (The Husband gets his picture taken all the time when he's in clown. He knows to mind at a moment's notice for a photo).
I put up the camera. I fix the settings on the lens so we can go macro. I am super excited. I open the aperture up wide and then...this happens.
I know. I know. 😳. I KNOW. This photo is so okay I could have taken it with a point and shoot camera. I've taken better pictures with my smartphone. Shoot, I've taken better pictures with obsolete smartphones.
Anyways, what happened is that upon snapping the shutter closed, a cloud had the audacity to pass just in front of the sun to ruin my perfect lighting. I looked at the microscopic image on the LCD screen in horror. "There's a cloud!" I howled.
My parents had just arrived to watch Kid 1 and Kid 2. They got to hear me howl. Both my parents and the Husband all hesitated in unison. (Did you know that people can hesitate all together? Because people can hesitate all together. It's an interesting phenomenon to witness). Before any of them could move on from hesitation I whirled around, glared up at the sky, and I gave it what for. Then, I made all three humans freeze and wait a few moments. I would have my clown portrait in good lighting, gosh darn it.
Clearly, my powers of persuasion were on point because the cloud then chose to move on. I moved fast. The Husband was still. I got my picture.
Behold:
Then I flew to put my camera away. We had an ornery 3 year old to entertain.
But that's another blog post.
Cheers!
