{"id":938,"date":"2009-11-24T06:48:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2009-11-24T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:26:18","slug":"slow-and-steady-at-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/slow-and-steady-at-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow and steady sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdma.org\/\">PDMA<\/a>, a conference about innovation and I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guykawasaki.com\/\">Guy Kawasaki<\/a> speak about curve jumping: adopting  the latest and greatest piece of technology to stay ahead of the competition. The analogy in photography is to find the newest piece of hardware, whether it&#8217;s a lens baby, some new light modifier, a lens with ultra sonic motor and built-in solar panels, who knows what&#8217;s next. It always takes time to learn how to use your new toys, and usually the learning curve is pretty steep. So it&#8217;s very tempting to get new toys because it can complete change your photography instantly. However, lately I&#8217;ve found it&#8217;s more important to be perfecting what I&#8217;m already doing.<\/p>\n<p>So in this photo I have no new gadgets. Just trying to perfect this style of one flash to highlight the face, and what I call hyperreal post production. Hyperreal post production is when I load a picture into Photoshop and play around with the sliders for an hour. I don&#8217;t exactly understand how they manipulate the bits, but I&#8217;m getting a good intuition for some of them. Also my eye gets more sensitive to slight changes. Slow but steady progress.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken at sunset. It is considered by many photographers the perfect time of day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9197.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9197\" title=\"IMG_9197\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9197.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9197-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago I went to PDMA, a conference about innovation and I saw Guy Kawasaki speak about curve jumping: adopting the latest and greatest piece of technology to stay ahead of the competition. The analogy in photography is to find the newest piece of hardware, whether it&#8217;s a lens baby, some new light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}