{"id":1809,"date":"2011-08-17T19:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2011-08-17T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T19:25:03","slug":"no-time-for-personal-creative-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"No time for personal creative photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1810\" title=\"Feeding Time, Loughor Estuary, Penclawdd, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Loughor-Estuary20101229_DSC0675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Loughor-Estuary20101229_DSC0675.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Loughor-Estuary20101229_DSC0675-150x56.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Loughor-Estuary20101229_DSC0675-400x148.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have been really busy recently and haven&#8217;t had much time to get out and about and take some pictures for myself. I finally hit the wall last weekend and managed to sleep for 14 hours straight. A first for me. The weather hasn&#8217;t been particularly inspiring anyway, but I remembered some images I took as an experiment in poor conditions last year.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the images were unsuccessful, but the one above started to work better once I realised a more panoramic crop was needed. In poor light I tend to start thinking in black and white as the scene can be quite monochrome anyway. In processing I like the look of split toning, which I enjoyed doing in the darkroom before the digital darkroom. Getting a consistent split toning on conventional prints was always a challenge, and certainly not as easy as doing it in the computer!<\/p>\n<p>Things are calming down now, so I hope to get out and about a bit more for myself now. I always find August a bit of an in between month; the greens are not as good as spring and the colour changes of autumn haven&#8217;t started yet. Most wildlife is harder to see and is still recovering from the breeding season with the migrants yet to appear. Time to start re-exploring old areas and exploring new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been really busy recently and haven&#8217;t had much time to get out and about and take some pictures for myself. I finally hit the wall last weekend and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}