{"id":166,"date":"2007-08-29T21:28:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T04:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2007-08-29T21:28:57","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T04:28:57","slug":"dexter-jackson-classic-shots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/dexter-jackson-classic-shots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Dexter Jackson Classic shots up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the <a href=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/bodybuilding\/contests\/djax2K7\" target=\"_blank\">2007 Dexter Jackson Classic<\/a> are up on the site.<\/p>\n<p>To say I am disappointed in myself over the quality of these shots is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>Ian was unable to shoot the show, and as we&#8217;d discussed the possibility of him contracting out to me in the past, we thought we&#8217;d give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I was already exhausted, and you can see that in some of the shots&#8211; it&#8217;s camera blur, not motion blur.  To complicate matters, UNF is a dark pit, and someone apparently had an uncontrollable urge to fiddle with the few lights that *were* there.<\/p>\n<p>But most of all, I wasn&#8217;t shooting the way *I* normally would have&#8211; I was trying to shoot what someone else wanted, and within those constraints, I didn&#8217;t do a very good job.  <\/p>\n<p>As if that weren&#8217;t enough, due to muddled communication I found myself an uninvited guest at the after-show dinner.  Had the shots been magnificent works of art, I wouldn&#8217;t worry so much about it, but as of now I feel like a moocher.<\/p>\n<p>So I think we&#8217;re going to can the concept of &#8220;contracting out&#8221; for now.<\/p>\n<p>I did better at the Floridas, and those shots will be up soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the 2007 Dexter Jackson Classic are up on the site. To say I am disappointed in myself over the quality of these shots is an understatement. Ian was unable to shoot the show, and as we&#8217;d discussed the possibility of him contracting out to me in the past, we thought we&#8217;d give it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}