Dentist Visit
Here I am in India when a piece of one of my molars breaks off. Here I am in the dentist's chair getting extra special care. The dentist is on the left and the assistant is there on the right actively keeping my tongue out of the way and using the little saliva hose like he's playing some sort of video game.
This isn't to say I was uncomfortable with that behavior. It's was pretty cool actually. I appreciated the extra effort as opposed to the normal approach of letting is just hang over my lip. A third person was holding the cable of the drill where the electrical tape wasn't holding it together so well. I could just see all this out of the corner of my eye despite it being ten inches from my face. Such is the distorted and selective vision uniquely offered in a dentist's chair. I kept wanting to make a POV shot but knew that would be impossible.
I went through the whole procedure with the camera between my legs and towards the end raised it up, peeked to make sure my settings were good and proceeded to shoot. The dentist didn't seem to mind as she giggled at my unorthodox patient ways. The first few shots were too far away for a good exposure. The brightness of her worklight made for a tricky shot so I brought the camera closer to force the auto-exposure to privilege the light in and around my mouth. That's that.
All told, it's the best thirty three bucks I've spent in a while.
Take pictures and floss.
This isn't to say I was uncomfortable with that behavior. It's was pretty cool actually. I appreciated the extra effort as opposed to the normal approach of letting is just hang over my lip. A third person was holding the cable of the drill where the electrical tape wasn't holding it together so well. I could just see all this out of the corner of my eye despite it being ten inches from my face. Such is the distorted and selective vision uniquely offered in a dentist's chair. I kept wanting to make a POV shot but knew that would be impossible.
I went through the whole procedure with the camera between my legs and towards the end raised it up, peeked to make sure my settings were good and proceeded to shoot. The dentist didn't seem to mind as she giggled at my unorthodox patient ways. The first few shots were too far away for a good exposure. The brightness of her worklight made for a tricky shot so I brought the camera closer to force the auto-exposure to privilege the light in and around my mouth. That's that.
All told, it's the best thirty three bucks I've spent in a while.
Take pictures and floss.
2 comments:
the color on this and the previous images is a bit washed out. i'll fix it when i get my own computer hooked up to the internet again. until then, i'm sorry.
the color may be off, but the content is fascinating........I would love to get in your brain sometime.......
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