Re: Shooting upside down? Use an "L" bracket.
maggiemole wrote:
I do not want (indeed I can't) to crawl around at ground level any more. Despite that, I have taken almost 200 mushroom shots in the last month (mostly not very good), and in our terrain, they are all at or very close to ground level. I can't keep bending over to that degree. I've tried putting the camera on the ground with a beanie as support, a beanbag with rice in it, and using a mirror (recently). But all of these need lots of adjustment which I'd prefer to do standing up and moving the tripod a bit.
That's fair enough. I can certainly empathize, as I have a lot of trouble these days, kneeling down in the dirt for the time it takes me to set up the frame, then dial in 20+ focus shots for stacking (my camera doesn't have a focus stack feature so I'm doing them all manually. I am at the stage now where I am starting to consider carrying a small folding stool to take strain off my knees and hips. Of course the trade off is more pack weight, but that's not so much an issue (for me)
I love EarthMurmurs images on Flickr, by the way. If only England could produce those colours ...
Hmmm, not sure what you found, but as of writing this I don't have a Flickr account. Although I should probably register one, which I may do shortly.
If only mushrooms grew on trees around me !
You've mentioned difficulty on finding interesting fungi in your area. To speak on my own experience, living in Sydney Australia, I often travel many many road miles, sometimes 200+, and walk for many hours, only to come home with no photographs at all.
My best strategy has been to join a local private Facebook group, see what other members are sharing, and add them to a custom google map as potential sites to visit in the future.