Re: Help with "The Mental Game"

2001-04-25 Thread D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
Stephen Moore asked: > A question, please, to the collective Pentaxian wisdom: > > How do you psych yourselves back up out of a slump, > namely a run of bad results? Or maybe more important, > how do you psych yourselves so that a run of bad results > doesn't degenerate into a self-perpet

Re: Help with "The Mental Game"

2001-04-24 Thread Jon Hope
Hi Stephen I don't know if there is an easy answer to your problem. My passion at present is photographing horses racing, especially harness racing. I am just now starting to be happy with the majority of my photographs. The last year has been a big, long, steep learning curve. I have burnt a

Re: Help with "The Mental Game"

2001-04-24 Thread John Francis
Tom Rittenhouse wrote: > > Second, trying to do photography and something else, in your > case officating at the race, tends to make the photography > not so good. Absolutely! It's as much as I can do to take the photographs while being aware of what is heading towards me, knowing where the clo

Re: Help with "The Mental Game"

2001-04-24 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
The first thing to do is look at the negatives. Ofte when I have been completely dissatisfied with my work a look at the negative showed that the problem was with the lab. Second, trying to do photography and something else, in your case officating at the race, tends to make the photography not s

Re: Help with "The Mental Game"

2001-04-24 Thread Dan Scott
Hi Stephen, Unfortunately, god and the devil are in the details. I pick one of my 'avenues of growth' (no shortage here) and focus on _improving_ that specific defect until I get consistently better results. Then I pick the next greatest fault and work on that. Occassionally, I have to go back

Re: Help with "The Mental Game"

2001-04-24 Thread aimcompute
TED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:06 AM Subject: Help with "The Mental Game" > > A question, please, to the collective Pentaxian wisdom: > > How do you psych yourselves back up out of a slump, > namely a run of bad results? Or maybe more important, > how do