Use a remote release or delayed timer

[sometimes]

If the subject isn't moving and you have a tripod, use a remote release or delayed timer - you might as well. Grabbed some released time from a 'no-show' appointment, ended up taking a few picture of fungi in some woods. Had my tripod no problem - shutter speeds were pushing towards 2 secs in the dark under canopy. I was dead still, but many of the shots show signs of 'camera-shake'. Unfortunately the tripod and I had sphagnum moss and dead branches under foot, not the most stable surface to be resting on. It would have needed little extra effort to engage the delayed shutter release, did I? No. Am I counting the cost? Yes. Will I do better next time, yes, but probably not. It's that I do this nature stuff so rarely, that I never get in a proper groove.

[roseway]

A cable release does the job perfectly well, and doesn't require any setting up - just plug it in and use it.

[sometimes]

As an aside from my original (and no excuse) I may have screwed up the remote trigger wiring on my camera, as if I recall neither a radio trigger (cheap off ebay) or a wired trigger would fire the shutter the last time I tried to use them- a prompt to sort that out.
thanks