{"id":1022,"date":"2011-04-06T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2011-04-06T21:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T20:32:49","slug":"breaking-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/breaking-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Playing with the sun by Steph Jennings, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/essitam\/5595637887\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5067\/5595637887_75c9eb34d9.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"Playing with the sun\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love my camera, I just always wish I was more proficient with it, so I&#8217;ve been reading lots and lots of articles to try and improve, The most recent one about shooting into the sun so I thought I&#8217;d give it a go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Generally the rule is shoot with the sun over your shoulder, so it felt a little odd blinding myself through the viewfinder but I persevered took a couple and this one was my favourite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m not 100% happy with it but I&#8217;m not sure what it is that I&#8217;m unhappy with maybe it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m not used to deliberately creating glare or maybe it would have worked better had the blonde kid being looking towards the camera?\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know but I\u00c2\u00a0 guess I&#8217;ll carry on reading and shoot some more, dragging my ever (un)willing test subject out again to try and find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my camera, I just always wish I was more proficient with it, so I&#8217;ve been reading lots and lots of articles to try and improve, The most recent one about shooting into the sun so I thought I&#8217;d give it a go. Generally the rule is shoot with the sun over your shoulder, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/breaking-the-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breaking the rules<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[63,103,105],"tags":[341,342,562,339,340,58],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photography","category-the-blonde-kid","tag-glare","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-shooting-into-the-sun","tag-sun","tag-theblondekid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-gu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":215,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/sweet-dreams\/","url_meta":{"origin":1022,"position":0},"title":"Sweet Dreams","date":"July 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I was tucking the blonde kid into bed last night he suddenly looked at me all serious then lay staring at the ceiling... me: What's up baby? tbk: Just thinking.... me: Oh what about? tbk: I don't know just lots of stuff me: Like....? tbk: You know just lots of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":492,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/happy-new-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":1022,"position":1},"title":"Happy New Year","date":"January 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A belated start to my blogging this year - hopefully not a start as I mean to go on. 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