{"id":1522,"date":"2016-09-05T09:19:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T13:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2016-09-08T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T17:49:16","slug":"monday-missive-september-5-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8211; September 5, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>There\u2019s a world of difference between focusing a lens and focusing attention.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>John Paul Caponigro<\/strong>, in &#8220;The Power of Abstraction&#8221; on Craft and Vision.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The paradox of the flawless record<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If your work has never been criticized, it&#8217;s unlikely you have any work.<br \/>\nCreating work is the point, though, which means that in order to do something that matters, you&#8217;re going to be criticized.<br \/>\nIf your goal is to be universally liked and respected and understood, then, it must mean your goal is to not do something that matters.<br \/>\nWhich requires hiding.<br \/>\nHiding, of course, isn&#8217;t the point.<br \/>\nHence the paradox. You don&#8217;t want to be criticized and you do want to matter.<br \/>\nThe solution: Create work that gets criticized. AND, have the discernment to tell the difference between useful criticism (rare and precious) and the stuff worth ignoring (everything else).&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; <strong>Seth Godin<\/strong>, Sept. 4, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sy-fZTtgpfQ&amp;list=TLUldGfIoj20ozMDA4MjAxNg\">&#8211; Creating shadows for photoshop composites<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/architecture\/why-long-exposure-photography-so-much-fun-so-hard-get-right-141442\">&#8211; Long Exposure Photography<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/nature-landscapes\/night-fantastic\/\">&#8211; Night Photography<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slrlounge.com\/make-luminosity-colour-bh-quick-photoshop-tip\/\">&#8211; Adjusting contrast without changing saturation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/tips-for-creating-a-personal-photography-project\/\">&#8211; Personal Photography Projects<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/education\/five-tips-help-you-better-capture-emotions-and-moments-141481\">&#8211; Capturing emotions and moments<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/techniques\/6813001908\/tips-for-better-live-music-photography\">&#8211; 19 tips<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturecorrect.com\/tips\/how-to-add-background-texture-to-your-photos\/\">&#8211; Adding background texture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/photo-tip-of-week\/dont-bark-wrong-tree\/\">&#8211; Trees<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iso.500px.com\/tutorial-photograph-process-glowing-mushrooms\/\">&#8211; Mushrooms<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1536\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1536\" class=\"wp-image-1536 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JohnWBrown_D8E_3459.jpg?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"JohnWBrown_D8E_3459\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JohnWBrown_D8E_3459.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JohnWBrown_D8E_3459.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JohnWBrown_D8E_3459.jpg?resize=449%2C300&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visited the Liberty Ship John W Brown off of Keith Ave in south Baltimore. Played with my 14 mm lens<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes &#8220;There\u2019s a world of difference between focusing a lens and focusing attention.&#8221; &#8212; John Paul Caponigro, in &#8220;The Power of Abstraction&#8221; on Craft and Vision. &#8220;The paradox of the flawless record If your work has never been criticized, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1522\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[35,3,4,701,41,33],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-baltimore-area","tag-conversation","tag-in-the-field","tag-links-and-quotes","tag-night-photography","tag-photoshop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-oy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}