{"id":7,"date":"2008-12-29T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-12-29T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:30:49","slug":"depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Depressing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through my 2008 photos today to create a &#8220;Favorites 2008 Gallery&#8221; on <a title=\"BOINK! Pics\" href=\"http:\/\/pics.boinkphoto.com\" target=\"_blank\">my SmugMug site<\/a>, and while I&#8217;m happy with a lot of the people shots I&#8217;ve taken, there are depressingly few &#8220;art&#8221; or &#8220;still life&#8221; shots that really move me.<\/p>\n<p>I love digital because it gets me out there, but without significant manipulation (and even then) you just don&#8217;t get photos with punch and saturation like say this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Foliage and Moon\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.boinkphoto.com\/photos\/444586369_PuG86-S.jpg\" alt=\"Foliage and Moon\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foliage and Moon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course today they would just assume I grafted in the moon, but I didn&#8217;t. It was just one of those special confluences.<\/p>\n<p>Part of why I shoot the Fuji S5 (and Fujis in general &#8211; the S2 still shines color\/saturation-wise) is because I feel they come the closest of every DSLR I&#8217;ve seen to film. For instance, I really like this one from this year:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bad Kitty!\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.boinkphoto.com\/photos\/445158946_QttSN-S.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Kitty!\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bad Kitty!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But in general the saturation doesn&#8217;t quite match Velvia which is what I live for. I suspect I will be shooting film again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through my 2008 photos today to create a &#8220;Favorites 2008 Gallery&#8221; on my SmugMug site, and while I&#8217;m happy with a lot of the people shots I&#8217;ve taken, there are depressingly few &#8220;art&#8221; or &#8220;still life&#8221; shots that really move me. I love digital because it gets me out there, but without [&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-7","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\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boinkphoto.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}