{"id":8220,"date":"2022-04-25T16:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8220"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:07:38","slug":"monday-missive-april-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8220","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; April 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It is not enough to know your craft \u2014 you have to have feeling.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>\u00c9douard Manet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8221; <em>. . . considering how we commodify the visual identity of strangers is a tricky topic.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Jonathan Blaustein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I can&#8217;t give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Frank Langella<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist:  &#8220;<em>I quote others only in order the better to express myself.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Michel de Montaigne<\/strong>, philosopher<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photoessays\/Bodies of Work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blind-magazine.com\/news\/depardon-as-a-landscape-photographer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Raymond Depardon landscapes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blind-magazine.com\/stories\/letizia-battaglia-who-photograhed-the-italian-mafia-dies-at-87\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Letizia Battaglia photographed the Mafia<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-Processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RXOoIWgjzZc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Blake Rudis:  Sky replacement with Blend-If compared to PS Replace Sky<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photopxl.com\/black-white-conversion-in-lightroom-pxl-print-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Black and white conversions in LR<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q5yK5hFQydo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Banding, editing and resolution in Photoshop<\/a> Good explanations and illustration of why you want to edit 16-bit files rather than 8-bit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Field and Studio<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IV0A0oxOgfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Lindsay Adler:  Using mylar for creative effects<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/contrastly.com\/5-compelling-composition-tools-that-are-rarely-discussed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Compelling compositional tools<\/a> Illustrated with excellent examples<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellaneous<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2022\/04\/earth-week-michael-o-snyder-the-coming-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; The coming coast<\/a> A great example of using photography for a social cause.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aphotoeditor.com\/2022\/04\/20\/supporting-photographers-with-nfts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Supporting photographers with NFTs<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iphonephotographyschool.com\/video\/contrastly-camera-settings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Best settings for IPhone photography<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richardeskin.myportfolio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View my Adobe Portfolio site<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8323\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8323\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tulip_SF_0424.jpg?resize=534%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tulip_SF_0424.jpg?resize=534%2C800&amp;ssl=1 534w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tulip_SF_0424.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tulip_SF_0424.jpg?w=721&amp;ssl=1 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulip, stacked focus, Sherwood Gardens.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes &#8220;It is not enough to know your craft \u2014 you have to have feeling.&#8221; 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