{"id":813,"date":"2011-10-04T23:33:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=813"},"modified":"2011-10-04T23:33:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:33:44","slug":"heres-my-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s my excuse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked for finished photos on the same day that I take them. I don&#8217;t really mind, and I try to accommodate as much as I can. But sometimes it just can&#8217;t be done, because when I pack my camera in the trunk at the end of the day, my job is only half finished. The photos don&#8217;t just magically jump out of my camera and into your inbox (I wish). They march through a number of steps, through  one piece of software into another, before they get the green light to proceed to the Internet. <\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bore you with the details, but by way of explanation here&#8217;s a typical shot as it looked straight out of the camera:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2788.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2788.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2788\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2788.jpg 950w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2788-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s how it looks after I&#8217;m done messing with it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2788_89_91_92_fused.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2788_89_91_92_fused.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2788_89_91_92_fused\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2788_89_91_92_fused.jpg 950w, https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2788_89_91_92_fused-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all of the shots need this kind of work. Every once in a while I get keeper SOTC (Straight Outta The Camera &#8211; I just made that up). But they all get a lookover, and most get a makeover, and that&#8217;s all done <em>after<\/em> the nightly dinner\/dogwalk ritual. And I have to fit a social life and some sleep in there somewhere, before the process starts all over again. So, I&#8217;ll do what I can, but if I say No, it&#8217;s not because I don&#8217;t like you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked for finished photos on the same day that I take them. I don&#8217;t really mind, and I try to accommodate as much as I can. But sometimes it just can&#8217;t be done, because when I pack my camera in the trunk at the end of the day, my job is only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}