Day #46 of Year 2
May. 1st, 2021 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatAfter watching television, talking to my parents on the phone, and snacking, I took a walk to the Flatbush Coop. Put on one of the designer batike masks that I'd bought on Etsy some time ago. (I prefer the KN95's that I have to be honest - easier to breath with.) I'm fully vaccinated so I wonder at times why I bother outdoors - but a part of me has grown used to the masks, I find them weirdly comforting. An additional protection against the scary world that I live in, also no need for makeup, expression mostly with eyes,
and helps with allergens.
Not everyone wears them - but that's always been the case. But most people do.
Someone commented on my photos being slightly out of focus - it's not the camera. It's that my hands shake. I can't steady them. The right is the worst. Sometimes they shake less than others. I take medication for it, so they are actually better than they'd be without the medication. They've shook since I can remember. Got worse in my late 30s, early 40s, which is when I started taking medication to control it. If I have any alcohol - it stops the tremor for the most part. CBD - has no effect. THC gives me vertigo.
I tell you this - because all of the pictures in this post were taken with shaking hands. The phone shook so much I took ten pictures of a flower, deleted several until I got the one I wanted. I even shifted hands. Granted I was carrying bags of groceries at the same time - which possibly added to the shaking.
It was one of those bright, sunny, blue sky days, barely a trace of cloud in the sky - where it's actually warmer outside than inside. My apartment was cool, so of course I thought it would be cold outside, and wore a jacket. Turns out it a much lighter jacket was in order. (I need to get a new lighter jacket, my current one is kind of snug, and the zipper is broken again. It's over twenty years old, so it probably is due a replacement.)
Below is the vegetable garden planted by the kids in front of the school on Courteylou Road, in Ditmas, Brooklyn.
They place them in tins, above the ground - to protect them from rabbits, raccoons, and other things.
In front of these is the Victorian Cantebury Clock that was donated to the area in the 1800s.
NYC has a lot of these types of clocks about. You really don't need a watch in this city.
I was feeling a little off on my walk - sinus headache coming on, so hurried home from the grocery store - and took something for it. Or hurried as fast as humanely possible with groceries, feeling off balance, and trying to enjoy the day. I did dip the mask below nose once or twice, which helped steady me.
Saturdays always fly by too quickly, while weekdays seem to slug by at a snails pace.
And the sign below is typical of most of the signs in the yards around my neighborhood...
and helps with allergens.
Not everyone wears them - but that's always been the case. But most people do.
Someone commented on my photos being slightly out of focus - it's not the camera. It's that my hands shake. I can't steady them. The right is the worst. Sometimes they shake less than others. I take medication for it, so they are actually better than they'd be without the medication. They've shook since I can remember. Got worse in my late 30s, early 40s, which is when I started taking medication to control it. If I have any alcohol - it stops the tremor for the most part. CBD - has no effect. THC gives me vertigo.
I tell you this - because all of the pictures in this post were taken with shaking hands. The phone shook so much I took ten pictures of a flower, deleted several until I got the one I wanted. I even shifted hands. Granted I was carrying bags of groceries at the same time - which possibly added to the shaking.
It was one of those bright, sunny, blue sky days, barely a trace of cloud in the sky - where it's actually warmer outside than inside. My apartment was cool, so of course I thought it would be cold outside, and wore a jacket. Turns out it a much lighter jacket was in order. (I need to get a new lighter jacket, my current one is kind of snug, and the zipper is broken again. It's over twenty years old, so it probably is due a replacement.)
Below is the vegetable garden planted by the kids in front of the school on Courteylou Road, in Ditmas, Brooklyn.
They place them in tins, above the ground - to protect them from rabbits, raccoons, and other things.
In front of these is the Victorian Cantebury Clock that was donated to the area in the 1800s.
NYC has a lot of these types of clocks about. You really don't need a watch in this city.
I was feeling a little off on my walk - sinus headache coming on, so hurried home from the grocery store - and took something for it. Or hurried as fast as humanely possible with groceries, feeling off balance, and trying to enjoy the day. I did dip the mask below nose once or twice, which helped steady me.
Saturdays always fly by too quickly, while weekdays seem to slug by at a snails pace.
And the sign below is typical of most of the signs in the yards around my neighborhood...
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Date: 2021-05-02 07:12 am (UTC)... were related to #2 above, close-ups. Depth of field-- the distance from front to back in the image-- narrows the focused region the closer you place the camera to the thing being photographed. Thus, sensing / adjusting focus becomes much more critical, and so amplifies any shake in the camera. All of the shots that I noticed were a mite soft were close-ups, and so I assumed that was the reason, and so the suggestion to see if your phone had a specific macro mode available (apparently some do).
I have some minor shake in my hands at times, simple age-related trembling, but if I try to take a shot in low light with my camera, it's still enough to make the image fuzzy unless I can brace the camera against a steady object somewhere-- often not available. (Slow shutter speed).
Whether or not it might help you, what I do that sometimes works is to frame the shot, inhale slowly and deeply, then exhale slowly and press the shutter somewhere mid-exhale. Doesn't always work, but a fair number of times it does, and is easy to do.
And sometimes, you like the pic enough that a tad of the fuzzy is fine. This one was taken near dusk and cold out to boot! I used a software sharpening tool, but you can see it's still a bit soft. But hey-- cute ducks!
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Date: 2021-05-02 12:56 pm (UTC)The hands shaking happens off and on, with varying degrees. It's worse if I'm carrying anything, nervous, in a rush, angry, upset, tired, not feeling well..
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Date: 2021-05-02 03:32 pm (UTC)