{"id":2053,"date":"2016-06-08T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2016-10-07T19:17:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T01:17:25","slug":"06-08-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/2016\/06\/06-08-16\/","title":{"rendered":"06-08-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC05574-Edit_2k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2054 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC05574-Edit_2k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC05574-Edit_2k\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC05574-Edit_2k.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC05574-Edit_2k-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC05574-Edit_2k-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day\u00a0160 \/ 525 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I was driving the back roads, looking for things to shoot, and I came across this place. \u00a0I reached back for my camera and realized that I didn&#8217;t have my longer lens on me, the longer\u00a0zoom. \u00a0It&#8217;s not a really long\u00a0zoom, or a lens that is highly rated, but I thought to myself, oh no.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the short\u00a0zoom, the kit lens, was great for this. \u00a0At times, I think I need a different lens setup. \u00a0I would like to have a longer\u00a0zoom range, or maybe some better optics, or some such thing. \u00a0And yet, it doesn&#8217;t really matter. \u00a0What matters is how you feel about what you see, and expressing that in the image.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there is one lens I will probably get soon. \u00a0Something I can use to start exploring portrait photos, as well as macro photography (shooting small things close up). \u00a0There are a few lenses I would like to have, that would give me a few other options in terms of wide angles, or longer ranges.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is, gear can be a crutch. \u00a0I have three lenses for my Sony, and they do a great job (wide angle, short\u00a0zoom, long\u00a0zoom). \u00a0More gear would just mean more to keep track of, more disappointment from inadequate shots taken with more expensive gear (when the issue would most likely be my own lack of experience, thought, practice, etc), and of course, more things that can break at a higher price point.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot that lens yesterday, and because of that, I did miss a shot, but I can go back. \u00a0And I am rather pleased with what I did get.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day\u00a0160 \/ 525 \u2013 Yesterday, I was driving the back roads, looking for things to shoot, and I came across this place. \u00a0I reached back for my camera and realized that I didn&#8217;t have my longer lens on me, the longer\u00a0zoom. \u00a0It&#8217;s not a really long\u00a0zoom, or a lens that is highly rated, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[2,196,236,199,186,200],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-118","tag-2","tag-dark-skies","tag-dayton","tag-in-the-fields","tag-oh","tag-sky","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}