{"id":5338,"date":"2019-11-18T01:09:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2019-11-18T01:09:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:09:01","slug":"monday-missive-november-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5338","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; November 18, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 <strong>John Pfahl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Great photography is always on the edge of failure<\/em>.\u201d \u2013<strong> Garry Winogrand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Frederick Sommer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photoessays\/Bodiesof Work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/plainmagazine.com\/nocturnal-new-york-by-photographer-nicolas-lepiller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Nocturnal New York<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/contrastly.com\/interview-with-landscape-and-urban-wildlife-photographer-kate-jaconello\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Urban Nature<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2019\/11\/greece-week-katerina-tsakiri-a-simple-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Greek self-portraits<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.digitalphotopro.com\/profiles\/julia-fullerton-batten-a-river-runs-through-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Julia Fullerton-Batten: Old Father Thames<\/a>  Great story-telling and very natural implementation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=urUAeuwDpzI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  How to fix the glitches in the first release of PS 20202<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BLpAzo8yPdU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Black and white conversions using calculations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4k-TNfx-x-E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  High contrast BW<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l_yjO8dQtBk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Creating a depth map in PS 2020 and blurring the background with lens blur<\/a> This is a lot of work, but may be worth it for some photos where a blurry background really improves the image.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Field\/Studio<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/automotive\/full-time-wedding-photographer-shoots-motocross-first-time-what-i-learned-423415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Shooting motocross<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellany<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/21370\/24-great-ted-talks-top-photographers-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  TED talks by 24 famous photographers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/streetphotographymagazine.com\/article\/overcoming-street-photography-burnout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Overcoming creative burnout<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5374\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5374\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GreenSnake_D8E_8477.jpg?resize=640%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GreenSnake_D8E_8477.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GreenSnake_D8E_8477.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GreenSnake_D8E_8477.jpg?resize=385%2C300&amp;ssl=1 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green snake.  Black Marsh Trail, North Point State Park.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes \u201cI became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.\u201d \u2013 John Pfahl \u201cGreat photography is always on the edge of failure.\u201d \u2013 Garry Winogrand \u201cMy photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5338\">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":[642,456,50,639,106,641,644,640,701,389,637,96,643,638],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-background-blur","tag-bokeh","tag-bw","tag-calculations","tag-composites","tag-depth-map","tag-julia-fullerton-batten","tag-lens-blur","tag-links-and-quotes","tag-monochrome","tag-motocross","tag-night-photography","tag-ted","tag-urban-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-1o6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","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=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}