{"id":1677,"date":"2020-05-04T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2020-05-04T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T20:16:22","slug":"opportunity-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/04\/opportunity-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity & Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

My absence from this personal blog is best captured by the phrase, “Still waters run deep.” The New Year brought another bout with a cold which quickly became bronchitis which lasted until the end of March. If that was not enough, events became more dire with the worldwide pandemic of Covid-19. Luckily, I did not contract it. These several months provided an opportunity of time to reflection, re- reading many things on photography especially skill development.<\/p>\n

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Naturally, photographic style was always in the back of my mind, for I felt unsettled with what I was producing. From the previous posting in December 2019 I knew I was at the cusp of totally crafting my photos differently. During the winter I did a lot of experimenting in how I actually developed the photograph in post-processing. And, in tandem, how I printed the photographs.<\/p>\n

The currently posted photo is a result of my transformative thinking about what I was producing. There is some of the style of John Paul Caponigro in it. The shot was taken at Conimicut Point, RI in late September awaiting the sunrise and a moon shot with a prominent foreground of Conimicut Lighthouse.<\/p>\n

The photograph was taken using a Canon 5DS using an\u00a0EF100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens @ 135mm, f\/8, 1\/10″, ISO 200, using a Gitzo tripod, and postprocessing with DxO PhotoLab II, ACR, Photoshop CC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My absence from this personal blog is best captured by the phrase, “Still waters run deep.” The New Year brought another bout with a cold which quickly became bronchitis which lasted until the end of March. If that was not enough, events became more dire with the worldwide pandemic of Covid-19. Luckily, I did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,92,89,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}