{"id":4763,"date":"2019-06-24T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2019-06-24T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:23:29","slug":"monday-missive-june-24-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=4763","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive — June 24, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you\u2019ve got.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Steven Pressfield<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA very subtle difference can make the picture or not.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Annie Leibovitz<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 John Pfahl<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photoessays\/Bodies of Work<\/strong>
\n– Monochromatic minimalism<\/a>
\n– Re-examining “consent”<\/a> in an age where neither the photographer nor the subject may control where an image shows or how it is used. This is an interesting discussion, but not sure that what Berman suggests is feasible or realistic.
\n– Widow\/er<\/a> A “poignant and elegant” portrait series<\/p>\n

Post-processing<\/strong>
\n– Blur the background without halos<\/a>
\n– Adding an image into text<\/a>
\n– How to cut out hair from a busy background<\/a> 37 minute video, but covers a lot about brushes, masking and selections.
\n– Create realistic skin texture<\/a><\/p>\n

Studio\/Field<\/strong>
\n– Packing your gear for air travel<\/a><\/p>\n

Miscellany<\/strong>
\n– Be creative every day<\/a>
\n– Modern photographic terms: What thoese acronyms mean.<\/a><\/p>\n

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male ruby-throated hummingbird. Taken at Patuxent North Tract Research Refuge, near visitor center. Sigma 150-600, 1\/1250 sec; f\/8; ISO 1600.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Female ruby-throated hummingbird. Same metadata except shutter =1\/400.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quotes \u201cDon\u2019t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you\u2019ve got.\u201d \u2013 Steven Pressfield \u201cA very subtle difference can make the picture or not.\u201d \u2013 Annie Leibovitz \u201cI want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather … Continue reading →<\/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":[125,350,50,47,217,547,701,152,130,389,72,100,548,341,445,80],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-blur","tag-brushes","tag-bw","tag-creativity","tag-ethics","tag-hair","tag-links-and-quotes","tag-masks","tag-minimalism","tag-monochrome","tag-portraits","tag-selections","tag-skin","tag-text-and-images","tag-textures","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-1eP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","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=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}