{"id":4045,"date":"2007-06-19T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/06\/19\/the-learning-process\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:20:05","slug":"the-learning-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/06\/19\/the-learning-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Learning Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I work my way through my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/72157600396023199\/\" title=\"Flickr: djwudi: Fremont Solstice Parade 2007\">Solstice Parade shots<\/a>, I find I have to keep reminding myself that it&#8217;s all part of the learning process &#8212; because I&#8217;m <em>seriously<\/em> second guessing a lot of what I did. It&#8217;s not that the shots are <em>bad<\/em>, really&#8230;just that they&#8217;re not as good as I had hoped (and don&#8217;t even compare to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/fremontsolstice\/discuss\/72157600393815121\/\" title=\"Flickr: Groups: Fremont Solstice Parade and Pageant: Some of [The Cory's] Favorite Parade Photos\">some of what I&#8217;m seeing from other people<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;d stood on the other side of the street I wouldn&#8217;t have been shooting into the sun, and I&#8217;d be using its light instead of fighting it and backlighting everything. Or, if I&#8217;d at least used my flash to fill in the shadows, then I wouldn&#8217;t have to be blowing out the sky to make the subjects visible.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;d set my aperture to the f\/2.8 that the lens I was using would do, then I&#8217;d have more depth of field separation between the subjects and the backgrounds, and the photos wouldn&#8217;t be so &#8216;busy,&#8217; distracting from the subject.<\/p>\n<p><em>sigh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. On the bright side, at least I am seeing these things (if after the fact), so I&#8217;ll know better next time.<\/p>\n<p>All part of the learning process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I work my way through my Solstice Parade shots, I find I&#8217;m _seriously_ second guessing a lot of what I did. It&#8217;s not that the shots are _bad_, really&#8230;just that they&#8217;re not as good as I had hoped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043,2050],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}