{"id":2657,"date":"2011-01-01T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T13:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2011-01-09T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T19:39:32","slug":"tarnished-a-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/2657\/tarnished-a-portrait","title":{"rendered":"Tarnished; A Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tarnished;<\/a><\/p>\n

“You aren’t going to stop posting your photography after Day 365\/365, are you?” is a question I found myself often asked as the end of the year approached. \u00a0Well, I guess that requires a bit of an explanation…<\/p>\n

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Despite my best efforts otherwise, I still did post a shot-of-the-day for the full-year in 2010. \u00a0While doing a shot-a-day demands creativity to keep your work from going stale, it also seems to force me to sacrifice a bit; a question I found myself repeatedly asking while staring at two pictures would be, “What if you need a fall-back subject to photograph in the future?” \u00a0In the end I would always keep shots to myself to save the ability to re-shoot them in the future if I was struggling to find something to post. \u00a0Furthermore, in my rush to get something posted, I would often later find that I didn’t even post my best shot on the given day in the first place; going back through the past year in photography, anyone with a sharp memory will notice that I\u00a0occasionally\u00a0supplemented a given post with additional pictures to do justice to my work on that day.<\/p>\n

Going forward, I hope to change this approach, skipping days when life gets in the way, but sharing multiple posts on days when the photography or stories warrant it. \u00a0Furthermore, I plan to relax my timeframe to post a given shot, so it will become increasingly common to see lost shots posted from my library that were from weeks or months prior. \u00a0I anticipate this leading to higher-quality work and more variety. \u00a0But enough talk. We start the year with a portrait.<\/p>\n

“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection and on his own terms, not anyone else’s” – J.D. Salinger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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