{"id":331,"date":"2013-12-26T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2015-05-28T23:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T23:54:39","slug":"managing-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/26\/managing-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6975PPS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-332 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6975PPS-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6975(PPS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6975PPS-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6975PPS.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6975PPS-200x120.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s that time of year that my thoughts turn to football. That&#8217;s not to say I do not follow it during the rest of the year, but I try to put it into perspective and try not to have it dominate all aspects of life as the NFL may seem to want at times.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken in the middle of summer during Patriots training camp. Apart from the fact that I am amazed how anything as complex as professional football is and how completely chaotic it appears to a casual observer in the stands and then how the team comes together when one of the coaches blows the whistle, I enjoy the training camp venue simply because I can get probably as close to the team now than at any other time of year. \u00a0And we all know that for a photographer this proximity is important.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I am close to the practice field during training camp I use my Canon 70-200mm L lens. There is a lot of motion but the summer daylight allows for a faster shutter speed at various aperture settings. Often I wish my angle could be different, but due to the restrictions placed on the fans in the seating area, I have to make do with straight on shots. One way I try to compensate is by depth of field manipulation or special effects in Photoshop. In this shot I again used Perfect Photo Suite 8 to bring out the fact that despite apparent chaos, there are controlling forces (Bill Belichick) and quarterback (Tom Brady) that bring order to everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year that my thoughts turn to football. That&#8217;s not to say I do not follow it during the rest of the year, but I try to put it into perspective and try not to have it dominate all aspects of life as the NFL may seem to want at times. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}