{"id":1675,"date":"2016-11-06T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2016-11-06T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:31:32","slug":"monday-missive-nov-7-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; Nov. 7, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Edward Abbey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2026<em>in the end, creativity is a gift to the creator, not just a gift to the audience.<\/em> &#8212; <strong>Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong> in Big Magic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Picasso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/foggy-dawn\/\">&#8211; Caribou and morning fog in the Kenai Peninsula, AK<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/pro-perspectives\/george-lepp\/focus-near-far\/\">&#8211; Extension tubes vs diopters, focus stacking and tilt-shift lenses<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/photography-gear\/photo-accessories\/new-memory-formats-cfast-and-xqd\/\">&#8211; Card wars: Cfast vs XQD for replacing the existing Compact Flash and SD cards. What the future holds.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephotoargus.com\/understanding-the-exposure-triangle\/\">&#8211; The exposure triangle<\/a> Basic but a good read for beginners.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/craftandvision.com\/blogs\/all\">&#8211; A collation of blogs by some of the best.<\/a> David du Chemin&#8217;s Craft and Vision site is really good and he has collected ongoing submissions by some of the best photographers. Worth visiting weekly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/craftandvision.com\/blogs\/all\/how-to-improve-your-street-photography\">&#8211; This Street Photography article is from the Craft and Vision blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/craftandvision.com\/blogs\/all\/three-ways-to-make-stronger-black-white-images-in-lightroom#Comments\">&#8211; Make stronger BW images in LR<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/originals\/photographing-sovereign-nations-respect-152127\">&#8211; Photographing Native American People and Lands<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/4-secrets-get-tack-sharp-photos\/\">&#8211; Getting Sharper Images<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturecorrect.com\/tips\/still-life-photography-tips-techniques\/\">&#8211; Still life photography<\/a> This looks like fun if you have a couple of flashes and an old fish tank.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/photo-tip-of-week\/consistently-capture-sharp-images\/\">&#8211; Sharper images<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/phlearn.com\/3-steps-editing-childrens-photos-photoshop\">&#8211; Editing children&#8217;s portraits<\/a> This uses a child as an example but illustrates some really critical controls that can be used on almost any subject to really make your subject pop.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1692\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1692\" class=\"wp-image-1692 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DecayingBarn_D8E_3635.jpg?resize=584%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"decayingbarn_d8e_3635\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DecayingBarn_D8E_3635.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DecayingBarn_D8E_3635.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DecayingBarn_D8E_3635.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Decaying barn on Route 209 in the Delaware River Water Gap. Taken at a John Barclay workshop, 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes &#8220;Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.&#8221; &#8212; Edward Abbey &#8220;\u2026in the end, creativity is a gift to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1675\">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":[701,33,14],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-links-and-quotes","tag-photoshop","tag-sharpness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-r1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","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=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}