{"id":3035,"date":"2018-03-05T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2018-03-05T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T15:03:59","slug":"monday-missive-march-5-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; March 5, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.\u201d \u2013 Anthony Robbins<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcentrate on your motivation\u2026 and the thought of what about the scene made you stop to look.\u201d \u2013 Richard K. Kaiser<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?\u201d \u2013 Eric Maisel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href = \"https:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/photo-tip-of-week\/flash-high-speed-sync\/\">&#8211; High speed flash sync<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XPp6JGClOcE&#038;feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs\">&#8211; 9 BW tips<\/a> More thoughtful than usual<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XPp6JGClOcE&#038;feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs\">&#8211; Using camera calibration to control color<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-8-surrealist-photographers-dora-maar-man-ray\">&#8211; Surrealist photographers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5zwIWhDcTEY&#038;feature=em-subs_digest\">&#8211; Tips on Nikon settings<\/a> Some are really neat, like how to save your settings to a card. I would expect that Canon et al. has similar options.<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YRAeasRfgRw&#038;feature=em-subs_digest\">&#8211; Color look-up, especially &#8220;Crisp-warm&#8221; and using the color blend mode<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PIm3DNdZ1JE&#038;feature=em-subs_digest\">&#8211; Introduction to Masks<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.digitalphotopro.com\/blog\/add-another-dimension-to-your-portraits-with-the-lensbaby-velvet-lens\/\">&#8211; Lensbaby velvet lens<\/a> I rarely do equipment, but I have the 85 mm version so I wanted to see how this experience compares with mine.<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/photo-tip-of-week\/flash-slow-speed-sync\/\">&#8211; Slow speed synch on flash<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/colony-edge-world\/\">&#8211; Photographing gannets at the end of the world<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3055\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3055\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LiveOakHouse_D75_9852Flat.jpg?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ancient live oak and house on Daufuskie Island, SC.\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LiveOakHouse_D75_9852Flat.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LiveOakHouse_D75_9852Flat.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LiveOakHouse_D75_9852Flat.jpg?resize=449%2C300&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ancient live oak and house on Daufuskie Island, SC.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes \u201cOne reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. 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