Quotes
“We’re more likely to learn from diversity than we are from homogeneity.” — Seth Godin, 12/12/19
“Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting…besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just DO.” — Sol LeWitt to artist Eve Hesse
“If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist’s private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.” – Robert Adams
Links
Photoessays/Bodies of Work
– Stephen Wilkes: Day to Night
Post-processing
– Move two sliders to create dreamy fog
– Broken glass effect with displacement maps
– Selective color for better tonal values Blake calls it “nerdy and dorky” but it is really pretty simple.
– Shape the light and shadow with dodge and burn
Field/Studio
– Finding Balance in Your Composition
– Extreme macro insanity
Miscellany
– Finding a direction for your photography
Foggy Morning in the Marsh
I spent a foggy morning in Black Marsh and then (very) late that evening, started to play.