{"id":1499,"date":"2019-09-10T17:15:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T21:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2019-09-10T17:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T21:29:21","slug":"out-of-my-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/10\/out-of-my-element\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of My Element"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my last post I’ve been putting together my portfolio. This activity is\/was totally foreign to me and a bit disquieting, since I have always approached photography in recent years as an adventure, not knowing what kind of shots I would take. I really had no need to change this approach, but I decided to take a workshop in Maine in the autumn around the Acadia National Forest with John Paul Caponigro. One of John Paul’s suggestions to prepare for his workshop was to think of projects I wanted to do as well as put together a sampling of my photographing interests (portfolio, I presumed).<\/p>\n

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This caused a brief period of uneasiness since I really resisted in putting together a collection of my best (or what I thought were) photos. But, I decided that growth sometimes comes at a cost of uncertainty so I put together a portfolio. I was definitely out of my element and I struggled with doing this for two weeks; my wife assisted me in critiquing since I really did not trust my own judgements (at times).<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, I finally began to see that what I liked about a lot of my photos (while valid) was not what others might see. Also, I began to see that while I liked certain photos for their composition they did not meet the precision of focus, color or tonality that I believed also drove me to capture scenes.<\/p>\n

I have put my portfolio “to bed” for the foreseeable future. What it is, it is. I definitely am always thinking of my next photo, and still want to shoot photography that way. The portfolio exercise was good and accomplished something. There is a tendency to see a portfolio as static; however, I generally shoot photos in an on-going, dynamic fashion and have a running series in my head of the “real life portfolio” that I am involved in.<\/p>\n

I have posted this current photo in this post although it also exists (at least currently) in my online Gallery on this site. The reason I did this was to use it as an example that what I thought was a good photo for my Gallery is not a good photo after completing the exercise of putting together my portfolio for John Paul. The current photo was taken with a Canon 5 DS, using an\u00a0EF100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 100mm, f\/4.5, 2″, ISO 3200, and post processed with DxO PhotoLab 2 , ACR, and Photoshop CC 2019,\u00a0using a Gradient Map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since my last post I’ve been putting together my portfolio. This activity is\/was totally foreign to me and a bit disquieting, since I have always approached photography in recent years as an adventure, not knowing what kind of shots I would take. I really had no need to change this approach, but I decided to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,70,81,87,89,86,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}