Holding your digital camera for floor degree LCD use – Tom Bol Images, LLC

Articulating LCD screens have been an amazing new software to make use of for images.  Now we are able to maintain our digital camera above our heads, or at our toes, and use the LCD to focus, compose and shoot.  I particularly like utilizing this method for floor degree wildlife images.  In Antartica final winter we weren’t even allowed to squat (attempting to keep away from spreading any chicken flu, all ships implement this), you needed to bend at your waist and maintain your digital camera close to the bottom to shoot.  Now if you’re a again button focus shooter like me, my wrist doesn’t bend at that angle to push the main target button.  Instead I adopted a brand new approach, I exploit my thumb to press the shutter, and my different fingers to assist my digital camera.

Last week on our Kenai Fjords workshop we have been photographing otters at water degree utilizing this method.  An added advantage of utilizing your fingers to assist the underside of your digital camera is you’ll be able to really feel the water while you get too shut.  I by accident dipped my Z9 into the ocean a number of instances, however I knew immediately since my fingers received moist first.  I wrote an article for Nikon on this capturing approach, check it out here.  And the subsequent time you’re capturing utilizing your LCD at floor degree, strive utilizing your thumb to press the shutter, I discover I get higher assist for my digital camera and fewer dips within the water.