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Have you ever had a day when, you\u2019re on a photo expedition but you simply wake up not in the photographic mood? You\u2019ve traveled somewhere special, you have new toys with you and the photography up to that point has been excellent and your hard drives are full. And yet, that morning things in your head just weren\u2019t clicking. I have days like that and I hate them! They are a two edge sword, you don\u2019t feel like shooting and you feel guilty for not feeling like shooting. Staying in bed in not an option, gotta push through it.<\/p>\n
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A minor case of this happens at certain locations when I simply don\u2019t feel the love. That happened to you? Be it the weather, your mood, the light or the company (or lack there of), you get out of the car and you simply don\u2019t see a photograph to save your soul. I hate times like that but they happen and they happen more times than not. But you\u2019ve traveled some distance and taken some time to be at this place. You can\u2019t just crawl back under the covers!<\/p>\n
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I ran into this problem A LOT when I first started out. We traveled somewhere and the mental road block would smack me right between the eyes. It was expensive but I found totally by accident a solution for the photography blues. I remember the morning on the California Coast with the F3 in my hand. By accident I hit the firing release button (never found a cure for that screw up) and I ripped off a bunch of frames. It finished the roll so then I had to rewind it which the motordrive did for me. And all of a sudden, with that sound of the motordrive the mind snapped and I saw a photo. It sounds so lame but for me, it works.<\/p>\n
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So we were in New Hampshire no to long ago and it was one of those mornings when, there wasn\u2019t a pixel to burn on nothin! There wasn\u2019t even a stupid image to put up on twitter\u2026how bad is that?! We had tickets for the Conway Scenic Railroad<\/strong><\/a> so I knew that if nothing else, I would have a cool ride. But I knew I wouldn\u2019t be doing this again anytime soon so the guilt started to weigh in. I went into my mode to bust out, a great thing abut HDR. Why HDR? How many frames do ya gotta take to do a HDR? Even though I was shooting with the D600<\/strong><\/a> which only takes 3 frames (18AF<\/strong><\/a> attached), I started to screw around. While I ended up deleting those photos that night back in my room, the sound of the motordrive triggered the Pavlov\u2019s Dog in my head and I got back to shooting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now the top photo is not one I would recommend you doing. The train on the right is off on a siding and not moving. The train on the left if what we\u2019re on and I\u2019m obviously handing out the window further then I should be. The shutter speed was 1\/3 @ f\/22 (ISO100), the camera strap wrapped around my wrist and elbows pulled in tight against the outside of the train. And now with my photo mojo workin again, we went chasing back up the tracks after the ride to find this boxcar we\u2019d seen during out ride. This is a 7 frame HDR, handheld shot with the D4<\/strong><\/a> and 18AF<\/strong><\/a>. Not too bad of images for a day starting off with the photo blues. Now I\u2019m not saying this will work for everyone, but next time you\u2019re feeling this way, just hold down the shutter release and let the sound of the slamming snap you out of it. You follow my train of thought?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever had a day when, you\u2019re on a photo expedition but you simply wake up not in the photographic mood? You\u2019ve traveled somewhere special, you have new toys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-28256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-photography"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Podcast.jpg?fit=1500%2C1500&quality=100&ssl=1","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"amazon":{"key":"amazon","url":"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Podcast\/B08JJQC1GR?ref=a_pd_item-n_c0_bc&pf_rd_p=1da7ab30-c785-4a0e-a160-4a7e7077b353&pf_rd_r=EEDMYHQM3DZ05FPRTHMJ","label":"Amazon","class":"amazon","icon":"amazon.png"},"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2fRA9VaVfSdQMKf1ipxr0tipxr0t","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"itunes":{"key":"itunes","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/moose-podcast\/id1107405746","label":"iTunes","class":"itunes","icon":"itunes.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/moose-podcast","embedCode":"See If You Can Follow my Train of Thought<\/a><\/blockquote>