{"id":5439,"date":"2019-12-16T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T05:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2019-12-16T00:11:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T05:11:50","slug":"monday-missive-december-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5439","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; December 16, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We\u2019re more likely to learn from diversity than we are from homogeneity.&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; Seth Godin, 12\/12\/19<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting\u2026besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just DO.<\/em>\u201d &#8212; Sol LeWitt to artist Eve Hesse<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist\u2019s private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 <strong>Robert Adams<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photoessays\/Bodies of Work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalphotopro.com\/profiles\/stephen-wilkes-day-to-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Stephen Wilkes:  Day to Night<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oN-dFfRPEkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Move two sliders to create dreamy fog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YdmUEwZDfwo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Broken glass effect with displacement maps<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wYz1d5CK56Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Selective color for better tonal values<\/a> Blake calls it &#8220;nerdy and dorky&#8221; but it is really pretty simple.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3k8ZHSkhYcM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Shape the light and shadow with dodge and burn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Field\/Studio<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photopxl.com\/finding-balance-in-your-composition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Finding Balance in Your Composition<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2019\/12\/12\/each-of-these-mineral-images-is-made-up-of-over-25000-individual-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Extreme macro insanity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellany<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SN2x2ChobQg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Finding a direction for your photography<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5458\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5458\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoggyMorning-InTheMarsh_D8E_0234.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoggyMorning-InTheMarsh_D8E_0234.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoggyMorning-InTheMarsh_D8E_0234.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoggyMorning-InTheMarsh_D8E_0234.jpg?resize=449%2C300&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foggy Morning in the Marsh<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5456\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5456\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoggyMorningInTheMarsh_D8E_0250.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoggyMorningInTheMarsh_D8E_0250.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoggyMorningInTheMarsh_D8E_0250.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoggyMorningInTheMarsh_D8E_0250.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I spent a foggy morning in Black Marsh and then (very) late that evening, started to play.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes &#8220;We\u2019re more likely to learn from diversity than we are from homogeneity.&#8221; &#8212; Seth Godin, 12\/12\/19 \u201cJust stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting\u2026besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. 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