{"id":5093,"date":"2019-09-09T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2019-09-09T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:52:44","slug":"monday-missive-september-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5093","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; September 16, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooops.  I published September 16 on September 9, but won&#8217;t change the dates, because the URL uses the title and I am not sure what will happen to the posting.  Sorry for the confusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>For each of the artists, photography provides the jumping off point to create objects, prints, books, assemblages and poetry.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Sal Taylor Kydd<\/strong> (LensScratch)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Well you can\u2019t teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 <strong>David Hockney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 <strong>Paul Strand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photoessays\/Bodies of Work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/eyeshotstreetphotography.com\/mehmet-esen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Pretty good street photography from Turkey<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/eyeshotstreetphotography.com\/willem-wernsen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  More street, this one is from the Netherlands<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/alan-schaller-street-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Alan Schaller<\/a>  I think I have linked to his work before.  He is worth following if you like great street photography.  Thank you Steve O.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-Processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RlgGFgLLjL4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Separate your subject from the background for more flexible editing<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rTPXROsz1WM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  How to select the background<\/a>  This was particularly helpful for your best work. Also some tricks from Select and Mask that I wasn&#8217;t aware of.<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k9FmATI5T0A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Playing with Bokeh<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=3&#038;v=JDKs9LzLzD4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Julianne Kost with crop tool tricks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Field\/Studio<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2019\/09\/03\/how-to-shoot-refraction-macro-photos-in-water-drops-glass-beads-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Refraction photos:  shooting through water drops and glass beads<\/a> Thank you Steve O.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellany<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/explora\/photography\/features\/getting-started-with-photo-theory-szarkowski-sontag-and-barthes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Theory of Photography<\/a> Perhaps a bit academic, but anyone serious about photography should be at least a little familiar with the people and ideas.<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.digitalphotopro.com\/blog\/preparing-for-portfolio-reviews-words-of-wisdom-from-michael-foley-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Part II: Preparing for a portfolio review<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5124\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5124\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0134.jpg?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0134.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0134.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0134.jpg?resize=449%2C300&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists at the Madonnari Festival in Little Italy,  Baltimore.  9\/7\/19<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0165.jpg?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0165.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0165.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0165.jpg?resize=449%2C300&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0210.jpg?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0210.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0210.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0210.jpg?resize=449%2C300&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0260.jpg?resize=584%2C730&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"730\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0260.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madonnari_D75_0260.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooops. I published September 16 on September 9, but won&#8217;t change the dates, because the URL uses the title and I am not sure what will happen to the posting. Sorry for the confusion. Quotes &#8220;For each of the artists, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5093\">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":[593,456,500,592,701,590,84,589,591,100,53,588],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-alan-schaller","tag-bokeh","tag-crop-tool","tag-glass-balls","tag-links-and-quotes","tag-liquify","tag-portfolio","tag-puppet-warp","tag-refraction","tag-selections","tag-street-photography","tag-theory-of-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-1k9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","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=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}