{"id":488,"date":"2019-06-16T17:34:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/?p=488"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:03:47","slug":"wrong-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wrong-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong, right"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not a seascape<\/em>. It may look like one, but it really isn\u2019t. For a while I had no idea what it actually was, and I didn\u2019t care because it was a blurry mess. So I discarded it, like I discard a very large portion of the shots I take. Sometimes because I missed focus, sometimes because they are blurred, sometimes because they are badly exposed, and sometimes simply because they are bad photos. But here\u2019s the thing; occasionally it\u2019s not the photo that is \u201cwrong\u201d, it\u2019s me<\/em>. I just didn\u2019t see through the initial impression it gave me to see its true value underneath.<\/p>\n


\nRoutine editing decisions that normally work to save time can lead to discarding valuable photos because you forget to see what is really there. It\u2019s a trap I sometimes fall into, but have recently tried to turn upside down, or inside out, or \u2026 well you get the picture.
\nSo, I went back to that shot at the top of this post, and realised it looked almost exactly like the kind of shot of the sea that I wanted to make for years. Some thoughtful editing revealed what had been there all along. A keeper. And it belongs in my portfolio. I also figured out how I made it. It turns out I took it through the window of a train from London to Canterbury. But it doesn\u2019t really matter because it works better a seascape shot.<\/p>\n

When I finally understood this I thought it a good idea to write it all down in a blog post dedicated to \u201cwrong\u201d photos that turn out to be completely \u201cright.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are some more:<\/p>\n

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This is not a seascape. It may look like one, but it really isn\u2019t. For a while I had no idea what it actually was, and I didn\u2019t care because it was a blurry mess. So I discarded it, like I discard a very large portion of the shots I take. Sometimes because I missed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings","tag-rejects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Misc_Add-1-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rudolfkremers.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}