{"id":6,"date":"2017-12-07T22:19:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T22:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2017-12-13T01:51:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T01:51:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-216 alignnone alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ja-Edited-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ja-Edited-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ja-Edited.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">If you opened that page, then I assume my pictures interested you enough and now you want to find out a bit more about myself. I am going to tell you my short story and then about how I see the world, life and people through camera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I began my photography adventure as a kid. I bought myself some simple analogue camera and due to lack of someone who could guide me towards this hobby, I let it go after few films I shot. As a kid I manage also to break my father&#8217;s good Russian analogue camera. That was it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After many years I got back to photography again \u2013 this time I got myself into digital photography and the real story begins \u2026 in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Since then I learned the basics of photography and how to use and master my gear (I have chosen Pentax as my main system). <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The real development though, relates to how a photographer sees the world, so I thought carefully what elements should be my corner stones of my style. So, what really differentiate me from other photographers is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8211; intuition \u2013 powerful means of seeing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8211; improvisation &#8211; I go with the flow although planning and structure helps to start<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8211; composing &#8211; seeing picture before shutter release is pressed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8211; emotions &#8211; capturing emotions through natural <span class=\"gt-card-ttl-txt\">behavior<\/span> by establishing warm contact with my objects (people)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8211; cooperation \u2013 a great photo is a fruit of hard work of both \u2013 a photographer and an object (person)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8211; off-camera flash technique (strobing) \u2013 sometimes natural light isn&#8217;t good enough, hence strobing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The photographers I admire and learn from are: John McNally, David Hobby and Brian Peterson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you opened that page, then I assume my pictures interested you enough and now you want to find out a bit more about myself. I am going to tell you my short story and then about how I see the world, life and people through camera. I began my photography adventure as a kid. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacekdrozdowski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}