{"id":6473,"date":"2012-10-03T07:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2012-10-03T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:16:50","slug":"keeping-an-open-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=6473","title":{"rendered":"Keeping an open mind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When taking pictures you should always keep your mind open to new ideas and possibilities. When I saw just how much contrast there was here (A dark hallway with a bright south facing windowed doorway), \u00a0I knew there was no way to balance the light but that I also wanted to create an image. My response was to go for a silhouette, taking it further I switched to manual focus defocusing completely, giving soft Indistinct edges. Finally I did a bit of editing in Snapseed to add the blue cast and textures.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120826-195213.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120826-195213.jpg\" alt=\"20120826-195213.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The point is that no matter the circumstance if your intent on creating images when presented with what appear to be problems, it&#8217;s actually an opportunity to try something different without expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When taking pictures you should always keep your mind open to new ideas and possibilities. When I saw just how much contrast there was here (A dark hallway with a bright south facing windowed doorway), \u00a0I knew there was no way to balance the light but that I also wanted to create an image. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}