Why
Can’t You Just Hold That Camera Still?
All
Hail The Camera Shakers
By
Dorraine Fisher - TCC Team member
One
of the biggest complaints you hear about the belief in creatures like Bigfoot
is that there are never any completely believable pictures or video. Every one
of them can be scrutinized in some way.
Day after day we look at blobsquatch, after shaky video, after
blobsquatch, hoping it’ll be the next big money shot that’ll convince the world
the creature really exists. But somehow it never does. We never seem to get
that pure HD clarity we’re all hoping for.
And
I’m guilty of complaining myself. I don’t know how many videos I’ve watched,
exasperated about all the shaking. Why can’t they just hold the friggin’ camera
still, I ask myself? In light of the great importance of finding proof the
elusive creature exists, is that too much to ask?
Well,
if we try to be fair and really think about it a little deeper, we need to be a
little more forgiving. I’ve taken numerous hikes over the years and numerous
animals have crossed my path, and even though, fairly often, I had a camera in
my hand, I have precious few pictures to prove I ever saw anything.
Why?
Because
when I see them, I’m either scared to death, mesmerized, or frozen in my
tracks. And I’m quite sure if some dangerous creature like Bigfoot crossed my
path, and if I did manage to actually aim the camera, I wouldn’t be able to
hold it any more still than anyone else. In fact, I’d likely drop in and just
stand there staring, frozen in place like an idiot. And I’d be hoping to heaven that the hairy
guy really isn’t dangerous like so many believe.
So
now when I’m looking at all these pictures and video every day, I try to be a
little less critical. Some of them are hoaxes, of course, where the shaking is
meant to conceal and deceive. And we
always have to be skeptical about what we see.
But
we also have to be open to the possibility that some of these are real events
that happened to lucky people who were understandably scared to death,
breathless, and of course, shaking like a leaf. And we should all consider
ourselves extremely lucky they got such amazing footage for us at all.
So
all hail the camera shakers! What would we do without them?
We’d
be bored stiff. *********
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Use a tripod, and practice taking pictures of the animals you see while walking, hiking. Hold your breath when taking pictures with out a tripod, and think being very still. Have a camera mounted on a helmet as well. Practice zooming in on objects.
ReplyDeleteWhile good advice, Anon, encountering a Bigfoot is very different from encountering a deer or even a bear. Remember that they are not supposed to exist. Encountering something all your learning has suggested doesn't exist takes time for your brain to comprehend, so it falls back on obvious criteria to establish whether you should fight or flee: much bigger than me, hairy, powerful build, looks like a cross between a man and a gorilla and didn't I learn that gorillas can lift 20x their weight? Oh why oh why did I buy a MINI when I should have bought a Hummer???" All that in a couple seconds with fear amping up bigtime before you decide to flee or fight. FLEE!!! Our ancient brains remember when the Wooly Mammoth stomped on us without much thought...
ReplyDeletePlus the problem with mastering camera technique is that assumes you will always have a camera. Many reported encounters were totally unexpected, i.e, people were engaged in other activities and not looking for anything, and so fast that by the time their brain assessed "Flee!" the animal was gone. Dr Meldrum estimates that there are possibly 4-6000 Bigfoot in North American forests. That's 2.4 BILLION acres of forest. I've done the math... that's a very rare species there. So even if you prepare for the chance encounter, 99.96% of us will never see one in our lifetime. That's takes a lot of discipline to prepare for an event that you will never have.
I had an encounter. I had no camera. But even if I did it would just show a red fuzzy blob in the dark as I sped away. I had very good reason not to step out of my car and introduce myself. You may think me a 'coward', but I'm alive and that's good enough for me. While it is very possible I ticked him off by accident, not all Bigfoot are happy shiny teddy bears.
Yep.. so very true. You have NO IDEA of what you will do untill you have seen one. I shared a article w/ some know-it-ALL teenagers who think they know everything about everything. They said and act like they would walk up to a Sasquatch with no problem. Knowing all along those 3 teenage boys would run and scream like a bunch of 6yr old little girls if they come face to face with one. But they act like girls any way to begin with. These are the guys who NEVER goes to the woods.. matter of fact hardly ever goes out side ...that knows ALL .. and knows everything that goes on or is in the woods ... a place they have spent VERY LITTLE time !! That is what floors me so much... how someone that has spent very little time in the woods knows what is there and goes on there ... they are very full of themselves !!! But that is human arrogance.. thinking we automaticly know everything about everything.. when we dont have a clue !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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