Saturday in the Mountains

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Like I told flynrider in another thread

Guess I don't have to tell you to be careful. Safety first. Make sure you can operate the camera with your left hand, make sure you can drive with just your right hand. Practice on a deserted straightaway. Realize at any time you can let go of the camera and grab the bars if you need to and you wont lose the camera. Don't worry about turning it off before you drop it you can turn it off later or the timer will turn it off. Make sure your lanyard isn't so long that you will drop the camera on your tank.

I don't even look at what I am shooting in the camera screen, I just point the camera in the direction and shoot, and look at them later when I get home. The great thing about digital is you can take 100 photos and delete the 50 that didn't turn out. Not like the old days when you'd take a roll of 36 pics, send them in for developing, and then throw 15 away.

You can even take selfies lol..notice how I am holding the camera and that I am not looking at it but looking down the road.



Look at this old thread by Cormanus. Now, think about all the awesome ride reports he has entertained us with since becoming the "one handed rider" lol

[url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1947&highlight=lanyard]http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1947&highlight=lanyard

Your suggestions and advice are very much appreciated! Thank you! Now to find a lanyard of sufficient (but not too much) length.

MG, good luck with the camera on the lanyard. It's a good trick and has provided me with hours and hours of harmless fun. I'm pleased the Ferret shared the knowledge. But ...

There are days when I find I get too focussed on taking pictures to the detriment of just riding the bike. There have been roads I would have enjoyed riding a great deal more if I hadn't been worried about going slowly enough to get pictures of the twisties. This is a more generic problem for photographers, I guess: do you enjoy the actual moment or do you enjoy it at one remove through the viewfinder?

The second thing—and it may be an issue only for me—is that you end up with a lot of pictures of roads. And the ONLY people that have any interest at all in roads are members of motorcycle forums or road engineers. Your wife may love you very much but, trust me, she'll find a way to tell you quickly that there are only so many pictures of bitumen or gravel a girl can stand. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe you guys have little interest. If so, please spare my arthritic shutter release finger and tell me.

On the question of maps, I draw them after the event. I quite like the process, although you do have to contend with Google knowing better than you where you went. I do have an iPhone app called Hike&Bike (by Navionics who make a great marine chart app) which can keep track of where you went, how fast you were going, how much you climbed, etc. You can replay the ride afterwards. The only downside is that it uses Bing maps and I can't find any way to get the map data out of the app. The advantage of drawing a map on Google is that you can zoom into it pretty closely.

Your point concerning enjoying the ride over documenting it with photos is well taken. I can see myself already, obsessing over getting the right shot just so I can come on here and post it for all to see. Still, I'll give it a try and will be mindful of where my focus is during the ride. (Haven't written one of those in a while. Haha.) I'll stick with my goal of obtaining a suitable video camera. That way, my obsession will be contained to post-ride editing and music selection. And, yes, these will be photos and eventually videos that I suspect my wife will never see.

I thoroughly enjoy seeing all of your photos of roads, road-side diners, motorcycles and the occasional Pterodactyl sighting. Keep them coming!