Now that I’ve figured out how to take on the ground shots without lying on the ground myself, I had to figure out how to stabilize the camera.
I have a few tripods (necessary for taking non-blurry shots with my DSLR in low light), but they both have rigid center poles which limit their minimum height to a few feet off the floor. Unless I angle them down (which I can’t really do if I’m shooting *under* the bed), I can’t get a good ground shot with them.
I spent a bit of time yesterday looking at tripods with tilting center poles, but they’re more expensive then what I’m looking for, and most of that cost is to give me a flexibility I simply don’t need. I just need a way to stabilize the camera a few inches off the ground – not take some kind of odd horizontally angled shot.
Then I remembered that I had a little flexible tripod mostly meant for a cell phone – something like this:
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But, when you screw off the cellphone attachment, there’s a regular camera attachment underneath which screws right into my camera. So, now I have my camera positioned on the floor and am waiting, just waiting, for those little Underfoot characters to get to work creating their new home.