{"id":906,"date":"2011-05-16T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshanty.us\/?p=906"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:27:43","slug":"left-brain-right-brain-aspects-of-photography-the-photoletariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/left-brain-right-brain-aspects-of-photography-the-photoletariat\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Brain Right Brain Aspects of Photography &#8211; The Photoletariat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thephotoletariat.com\/left-brain-vs-right-brain-creativity-vs-technique-in-photography\/\">Left Brain Right Brain Aspects of Photography &#8211; The Photoletariat<\/a>: &#8220;However, there\u2019s only so much analytical brain power and money you can throw into photography before you hit a dead end. Unless you learn to open that door to your creative, intuitive, emotional side, you\u2019re going to have a hard time making anything other than boring, run of the mill pictures.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite bit from the article is:<br>&#8220;However, there\u2019s only so much analytical brain power and money you can throw into photography before you hit a dead end. Unless you learn to open that door to your creative, intuitive, emotional side, you\u2019re going to have a hard time making anything other than boring, run of the mill pictures.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, I shot pictures at a brew fest. I am normally not very good at shooting pictures of people. It being a brew fest, I had been drinking. I think the alcohol may have suppressed my normally dominant left brain logic leaving me open to compose some very good photographs of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to do some experimentation on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsjuMLoUN\">Here&#8217;s a link to the photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left Brain Right Brain Aspects of Photography &#8211; The Photoletariat:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"chuckularone","author_link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/author\/chuckularone\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/photography\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Photography<\/a>","tag_info":"Photography","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}