Day 36 of 365 days.
I’d been wondering how I was going to do this since I started this project. I knew I wanted to get at least one picture of me wrestling in the set, but how can I take a picture of myself while wrestling without 1) breaking the camera and 2) looking like a total idiot going to set the autotimer. I came up with this instead. I managed Jason and Shiima tonight in a 4 way tag match, and spent the entire time taking pictures of myself at ringside (with my old Digital Elph camera, I was afraid of breaking the G3 even with limited participation in the match). I think the fans thought it was funny, which is good. So I wasn’t technically in the match, but at least I was a part of it, and now there’s a wrestling picture in the set. Woohoo!
Today is day 36. Tomorrow’s picture marks 10% of the project complete.
I find myself taking self portraits compulsively now, everywhere I go….When I get up there, I’ll come and take pics of you wrestling! Maybe not the same as a self portrait, but will still be cool!
that would be cool. None of my friends ever want to come and see me wrestle.
Chris, you did that one collection of thumbnail shots of you and Steph during the night, using a function on your camera that lets you take x-number of shots at a given time interval — my Pentax W10 calls that function "Interval Shoot."
Can you set your camera up somewhere, focused on the ring, and let it do its thing while you wrestle? Can you safely position the camera on a tripod someplace where it can see the whole ring?
theoretically, yes… But 1) the shots would all kind of suck because there’d be no way to guarantee that I was ever in shot when the camera happened to go off. 2) the best I can set my camera for is 1 shot every min. And usually a match is only like 10 min. long, tops.
So I might never get a shot. I guess I could take a frame capture from my video camera. I actually video tape myself wrestling all the time, but that just feels like cheating.