La noche anterior que me enteré que íbamos al campo, tome mi cámara la limpie, puse la pila a recargarse y arregle todo para que estuviese listo.
Nunca me imagine que iba a tener la oportunidad de tomar estas fotografías, primero porque antes había ido a este terreno y solo habían arboles, frutas y pollos; por un momento pensé que no seria nada útil llevar la cámara, pero algo dentro de mi me decía que me iba a encontrar con la oportunidad de ver un caballo y lo tenia que fotografiar.
Las posibilidades eran muy pocas, pero termine sorprendido.
Al instante que me baje del auto y salude a mi tío, tome la cámara porque había visto lo que tanto estaba presintiendo, un caballo. Un poco lejos pudiéramos decir que estaba a unos 30 metros de distancia, pero eso no iba a ser un impedimento ya que tengo un lente especial para las fotografías a distancia.
Aun así, fue un desafío, primero porque nunca había tomado fotografías en el campo donde hay tanta luz del sol, y mi cámara tiene la particularidad de que cuando el sol le pega directo al lente, se crea una especia de neblina brillante en la fotografía que le quita nitidez, sin embargo, me las ingenie y la noche anterior a ese momento, había tomado dos rollos de cartón de papel higiénico, los corte y pegue con grapas para crear un cilindro que cubriera el lente de la cámara, una idea que me dio @robinsonlgil.
Pero el reto mayor era tomar la fotografía sin ser descubierto, ya que el caballo y la vaca no pertenecían a mi tío, sino mas bien a un poderoso del gobierno, por lo que andar con una cámara cerca de su territorio era como hacerles pensar que estaba espiando sus actividades, incluso mi tío me dijo que hasta podían dispararme ante cualquier confusión que pudiera estar dándose.
La verdad, no me dio miedo, no creía que algo así pudiera suceder, y de cierto modo no me podía perder la oportunidad de fotografiar, si ellos se molestaban, pues intentaría explicarles que era un fotógrafo por hobby, que no trabajaba para nadie, ni muchos menos los espiaba, simplemente quería tener dentro de mi colección de fotografías a ese caballo y demás animales.
The night before I found out we were going to the field, I took my camera, cleaned it, but the battery to recharge, and arranged everything to be ready.
I never imagined that I would have the opportunity to take these pictures, first because I had been to this field before and there were only trees, fruits, and chickens; for a moment I thought it would not be useful to take the camera, but something inside me told me that I was going to find the opportunity to see a horse and I had to take a picture of it.
The chances were very slim, but I ended up surprised.
As soon as I got out of the car and greeted my uncle, I grabbed the camera because I had seen what I was sensing, a horse. A little far we could say it was about 30 meters away, but that was not going to impede since I have a special lens for distance photography.
Even so, it was a challenge, first because I had never taken pictures in the field where there is so much sunlight, and my camera has the particularity that when the sun hits the lens directly, it creates a kind of bright haze in the photograph that takes away sharpness, however, I managed and the night before that moment, I had taken two rolls of cardboard toilet paper, cut and stapled them together to create a cylinder to cover the camera lens, an idea that gave me @robinsonlgil.
But the biggest challenge was to take the picture without being discovered since the horse and the cow did not belong to my uncle, but rather to a powerful government official, so walking around with a camera near their territory was like making them think I was spying on their activities, even my uncle told me that they could even shoot me in case of any confusion that might be occurring.
The truth, I was not afraid, I did not believe that something like that could happen, and in a way, I could not miss the opportunity to photograph, if they were upset, I would try to explain that I was a hobby photographer, I was not working for anyone, much less spying on them, I just wanted to have in my collection of photographs of that horse and other animals.
Esto fue lo mas gracioso de la tarde. Pues había tomado casi 100 fotografías y entre tantas capture al caballo haciendo pipi, así que digamos que invadí su intimidad, pero no fue apropósito, realmente estaba tomando las fotografías lo más rápido posible antes de que me descubrieran.
This was the funniest thing of the evening. I had taken almost 100 pictures and among so many I captured the horse peeing, so let's say I invaded his privacy, but it wasn't on purpose, I was really taking the pictures as fast as possible before I was discovered.
Cabe destacar que el caballo y la vaca tenían una marca y números, intente que no salieran en las fotografías, pues, seria una forma de que me descubran rápidamente.
It is worth mentioning that the horse and the cow had a brand and numbers, I tried to keep them out of the pictures because it would be a way for them to discover me quickly.
The photographs were taken with a Sony A290 camera, and others with my Xiaomi redmi 9. None of the photographs were edited.