{"id":866,"date":"2017-05-24T01:54:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2018-03-07T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T01:53:00","slug":"the-minds-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/24\/the-minds-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mind&#8217;s Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LumenziaEfexPro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-867 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LumenziaEfexPro-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been preparing for my upcoming photo shoot in Hawaii in June. I&#8217;m anticipating challenging conditions both physically (heat and cold) and photographically (lighting extremes). I am less concerned about the former and more concerned about the latter. Consequently, I acquired\u00a0graduated ND filters as well as standard ND filters of varying densities to deal with Hawaiian light.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I discovered a wonderful product for my screw-in filters, namely Xume magnetic adaptors, which allow me to by-pass\u00a0the screw-ins and simply stick the filters on magnetically. They were a little costly but, when in the field shooting, time is of the essence.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve included the current blog post photo to summarize the current state of my thinking, photographically. That is, when I see a scene, I not only am seeing the scene but also I am projecting onto this scene various personal attributes (how I value certain things as colors, light, object as well emotive elements as warmth, aversion, mystery, joy, etc.). \u00a0The current blog photo was taken with a Canon Powershot\u00a0G2 camera many years ago. It was highly contrasted and blown out with mid-day light. Only by using some post-processing techniques was I able to salvage what my mind&#8217;s eye saw at that moment. The mind&#8217;s eye image stayed within me for years and only recently due to learning and using techniques to shape the image to conform to my mind&#8217;s eye was I able to get the image before you.<\/p>\n<p>The current image was shot high above Positano, Italy, in May 2011. Post processing used Lumenzia PS Extension, a gradient map, as well as Color Efex Pro.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been preparing for my upcoming photo shoot in Hawaii in June. I&#8217;m anticipating challenging conditions both physically (heat and cold) and photographically (lighting extremes). I am less concerned about the former and more concerned about the latter. Consequently, I acquired\u00a0graduated ND filters as well as standard ND filters of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,58,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866"}],"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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}