Getting my Mojo Back

St. Ignatious HDR, originally uploaded by ted.sali.

Something bad happened to me over the winter months.
Aside from the fact that the short days and very cold weather keep me away from shooting environmental work, which I think is my best stuff, I started getting far too technical.
Now, don't get me wrong, being technical is great, but when you start fretting over the math more than the final feel of the shot, you loose something in the creative aspect.

That was bad....

The good news, I'm starting to swing myself back into more creative mode, letting the light talk to me more, and worrying about what the light meters say less. Seems my images look better when my light meter isn't so happy.

The funny part is that about a week after my revelation that I was getting too hung up on numbers and whatnot, I borrowed the Strobist DVD collection from a buddy of mine.

And what does Mr. David Hobby say right in the first half hour? Pretty much the same thing.

So, here's what I gotta do, I have to have fun with my camera again. Last summer and fall I was having a blast, I didn't know as much as I would have liked, but my images were fun and exciting. I was happy, my clients were happy, and my images were happy.

The weather is starting to break, I have some new contacts that want to work with me, and I plan to have some laughs.

Please stand by, fun stuff is gonna start happening real, REAL soon.