{"id":8111,"date":"2022-03-21T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:38:00","slug":"monday-missive-march-21-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8111","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive — March 21, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

“Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.<\/em>” — Stephen King<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Am I good enough? Yes, I am.”<\/em> -\u2014 Michelle Obama<\/em><\/p>\n

“Your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.<\/em>” -\u2014 Toni Morrison<\/strong><\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>
\nPhotoessays\/Bodies of Work<\/strong>
\n— Sarah Hadley: Story lines<\/a>
\n— Vibrant Green: Drone photography in Poland<\/a>
\n— Through the eyes of Ukrainian refugees<\/a>
\n— War Diary: From a basement in Kyiv<\/a> This one is powerful.<\/p>\n

Post-Processing<\/strong>
\n— Sean Tucker: Shaping the light in your portraits<\/a> <\/p>\n

Field and Studio<\/strong>
\n— Street photography tips<\/a>
\n— Marc Koegel: BW Landscapes<\/a> Marc uses a monochrome medium format camera, and the images are striking. He also has an interesting approach and philosophy about his photography. <\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/strong>
\n— A photo book: Lost and found<\/a>
\n— Denis Brihat: An ecologist before his time.<\/a>
\n— City anonymity<\/a> I don’t generally like out of focus or blurry images, but these work with concept.<\/p>\n

For the next few weeks I am going to try something new. I will present some images that I thought at the time I took them, that I saw something special, but looking back, I ended up not capturing it effectively.<\/p>\n

For the first image of cypress trees taken in 2018 at the newly established Congaree National Park in South Carolina, I was trying to capture the depth, density and mystery of the cypress trees, so I set my f-stop at f\/2.8 on a 70-200 mm lens at 150 mm focal length thinking that the out of focus foreground would give that impression. Instead, now I find it is just distracting. I think I would have a better image if I either (1) set the f-stop to f\/11 or higher and increased my ISO OR (2) did a stacked focus set so that everything was in focus. What do you think?<\/p>\n

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For this picture of a small house snuggled at the base of a huge live oak, I think the basic premise was good. It is uncommon to see a scene like this. One thing that could have been better is to come back at a different time of day. The bright sky and highlights of the branches could have been diminished earlier or later. A polarizer might have helped as well. The cropped BW is I think an improvement on the color image because it removes the worst of the excessive highlights. The image was made with a 24-120 at 24 mm, f\/4.5, 1\/100 sec, ISO 125. I wonder if the image would have been improved with a wider angle lens (I have a 14 mm) that would have let me get closer and still include the whole tree, while diminishing the bright foreground. What do you think?<\/p>\n

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