{"id":742,"date":"2008-02-18T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T01:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-18\/742"},"modified":"2008-02-18T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T01:59:31","slug":"crow-and-snowy-trees-is-this-photo-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-18\/742","title":{"rendered":"Crow and Snowy Trees: Is This Photo Interesting?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='046117' href=\"\/i\/JEF_046117.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_046117_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl\"\nid=\"i046117\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\nphotostream=\"winter\"\ntitle=\"A crow sits on a snow-covered wire in a wintery, snowy scene in Kyoto, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 55 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>320 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 400 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_046117.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_046117.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Is this shot at all interesting?<\/p>\n\n\n<p>We awoke to a pretty layer of snow this morning, and I'm now going\nthrough the 249 shots <span class='nobr'>I took<\/span> on <span class='nobr'>a short<\/span> outing with Anthony. <span class='nobr'>I was about<\/span> to\nadd this shot to the reject pile when <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> second thoughts. <span class='nobr'>I converted<\/span> it to grayscale, futzed with the grayscale mix in Lightroom, and now it has\nsome appeal to me, although <span class='nobr'>I can't<\/span> put my finger on exactly what.<\/p>\n\n<p>Maybe the grayscale makes it interesting? <span class='nobr'>I had a<\/span> grayscale shot on my\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-02-05\/715\">Artsy-Fartsy in Kyoto af <span style='font-family:times'><i>f<\/i><\/span>\/1.2<\/a>\npost, which was met with overwhelming silence, so maybe I'm off track.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>While writing this post, <span class='nobr'>I first<\/span> captioned the photo &#8220;Winter&#8221;, which was fine\nbut bland. <span class='nobr'>I then tried<\/span> &#8220;Urban Winter&#8221;, but that casts <span class='nobr'>a very<\/span> different\nmood that doesn't really work here. So, <span class='nobr'>I removed<\/span> the caption. (If <span class='nobr'>I were<\/span>\nto be frank, I'd use &#8220;Big Nasty Crow Sitting On Ugly Utility Line&#8221;, but\nthat also casts <span class='nobr'>a different<\/span> mood than I'm hoping for :-))<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, <span class='nobr'>I probably<\/span> should just go with my first impression.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this shot at all interesting?<\/p> <p>We awoke to a pretty layer of snow this morning, and I'm now going through the 249 shots I took on a short outing with Anthony. I was about to add this shot to the reject pile when I had second thoughts. I converted it to grayscale, futzed with the grayscale mix in Lightroom, and now it has some appeal to me, although I can't put my finger on exactly what.<\/p> <p>Maybe the grayscale makes it interesting? I had a grayscale shot on my Artsy-Fartsy in Kyoto af f\/1.2 post, which was met with [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}