{"id":2850,"date":"2017-12-18T14:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2017-12-18T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:14:50","slug":"monday-missive-dec-18-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; Dec. 18, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Criticism&#8217;s job is to clarify art&#8217;s mystery without destroying it.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Robert Adams<\/strong>, Beauty in Photography<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>An expanding mindfulness of visual language gives me new ways to express myself, even if I am never understood.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>David duChemin<\/strong>, in The Soul of the Camera<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Photography, like writing, is about storytelling. Pens and cameras are merely the tools we use to bring self-expression to life.  If you have nothing to say, you images will reflect that.  It&#8217;s important to build your own narrative through exploration, learning and diverse experiences that enrich your storytelling.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Claire Rosen<\/strong>, Imaginarium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href = \"https:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/7-wildlife-photography-techniques\/\">&#8211; 7 Wildlife techniques<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jkost\/2017\/12\/tasmania-three-photos-before-and-after.html\">&#8211; Julianne Kost edits three images from Tasmania in detail<\/a> This is as helpful for what she does as how she does it.<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/contrastly.com\/11-sure-fire-ways-to-get-out-of-a-creative-rut\/\">&#8211; Get out of a creative rut<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/contrastly.com\/interview-with-international-freelance-photographer-holly-cant\/\">&#8211; Becoming an international freelance photographer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZM5w2IWcoV4&#038;feature=em-subs_digest\">&#8211; Use content aware scale to change aspect ratio of image<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/2017\/12\/tragic-heartfelt-photos-streets-poughkeepsie\/\">&#8211; Interesting photo essay about street people in Poughkeepsie<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.digitalphotopro.com\/technique\/camera-technique\/7-guides-to-black-white-photography\/\">&#8211; Guides to BW photography<\/a> Excellent profiles of 7 noteworthy BW photographers, including Kenna and Uelsmann and several techniques profiles<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/photo-tip-of-week\/random-bits-photo-education\/\">&#8211; Embed these concepts into your workflow<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/18955\/use-multiple-exposures-reduce-image-noise\/\">&#8211; Use multiple exposures to reduce image noise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Steve Oney:<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2017\/12\/15\/tested-10-photoshop-alternatives\/\">&#8211; Comparison of 10 photoshop alternatives<\/a> If you haven&#8217;t committed to Adobe, several of these are much better than not processing your images at all or using the manufacturer&#8217;s software.<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2017\/12\/15\/can-run-nik-collection-plugins-standalone-apps-heres\/\">&#8211; NIK Fans: run NIK standalone<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2866\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2866\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecondTry.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecondTry.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecondTry.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecondTry.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out of the Maelstrom, color.  I should note that all of my photo friends that chose to comment preferred the color version to the BW. What do you think?<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2864\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2864\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecondTryBW.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecondTryBW.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecondTryBW.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecondTryBW.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out of the Maelstrom<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes &#8220;Criticism&#8217;s job is to clarify art&#8217;s mystery without destroying it.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography &#8220;An expanding mindfulness of visual language gives me new ways to express myself, even if I am never understood.&#8221; &#8212; David duChemin, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2850\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[50,261,47,260,249,127,701,235,262,94,45,53,166,95],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-bw","tag-content-aware","tag-creativity","tag-freelance","tag-jerry-uelsmann","tag-kost","tag-links-and-quotes","tag-michael-kenna","tag-nik","tag-noise","tag-photoshop","tag-street-photography","tag-tasmania","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-JY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}