{"id":22,"date":"2009-07-31T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-07-31T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:37:31","slug":"sometimes-you-have-to-take-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you have to take a break&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been taking a little break from photography (not that anyone cares because as far as I can see, no one is reading this blog)(not that I would blame them &#8211; these things are a supreme act of narcissism). It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not shooting at all, but I&#8217;m not focusing on it nearly as much.<\/p>\n<p>For awhile there I was placing a bit too much attention to the craft (or rather, attempted craft) and frankly trying too hard when there just wasn&#8217;t much to shoot. The problem is if you&#8217;re not traveling, you&#8217;re usually treading over the same spots over and over again and often you&#8217;re doing so hoping some new inspiration will come along. When it doesn&#8217;t it can slowly eat at you.<\/p>\n<p>I think the other thing that put me off was shooting some medium format Velvia (quite a bit really) and being disappointed with the results. It just didn&#8217;t look as good as I remember it (or frankly as good as my old slides!). Then again, I blew a ton of shots out of what I would call &#8220;digital laziness&#8221;. That is, you get used to not having to deal with 50 ASA and the shutter speeds that go with it.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m laying off a bit and waiting for inspiration to take me again. Already after about a month now I&#8217;m starting to get the itch again, so I think it&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been taking a little break from photography (not that anyone cares because as far as I can see, no one is reading this blog)(not that I would blame them &#8211; these things are a supreme act of narcissism). It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not shooting at all, but I&#8217;m not focusing on it nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}