{"id":3691,"date":"2009-01-13T21:32:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2009-01-13T21:37:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:37:48","slug":"how-i-procrastinate-or-deal-with-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/how-i-procrastinate-or-deal-with-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"How I procrastinate, or deal with the blues."},"content":{"rendered":"

I must be feeling a bit down.\u00c2\u00a0 That last post included the word “tight” twice with copious pictures of Paul working on the outbuilding, and yet, I let that golden opportunity pass.\u00c2\u00a0 Tight?\u00c2\u00a0 Golden? … aye, my heart’s just not in it.\u00c2\u00a0 So much for my reputation as the internet source for home improvement porn.<\/p>\n

As I try to rev up for this year’s Mardi Gras season (we’re still working the Devo theme, despite Will’s ever-changing cast of character requests: Spider, Cowboy, Knight, and Luke Skywalker), I’m attempting to clean out my Aperture folder and properly archive and organize the photographs.\u00c2\u00a0 But you know?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s way more fun to play around<\/span> studiously learn Photoshop techniques.<\/p>\n

Remember Kate’s New Year Tai Chi<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Where she is terribly lit in intense direct sun?\u00c2\u00a0 The moves are so classically Kate that I wanted to see if I could improve the quality of some of the pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 Work with the captured moment, so to speak.<\/p>\n

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Then I decided to try and soften the harsh light and overall brightness of the image.\u00c2\u00a0 I played with curves, brightness, dodge and burn, and levels.\u00c2\u00a0 What I should have done was used one set of commands that I liked and then just applied the actions to the rest.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 I just went all willy-nilly and did whatver I liked as the mood struck.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t expect anything earth-moving.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, I know.\u00c2\u00a0 Is that all?\u00c2\u00a0 Then, because I’m reading all of these artsy books about black and white photography, I decided to play around some more.<\/p>\n

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I think I like these last ones best.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping I get around to backing them up before Mardi Gras!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must be feeling a bit down.\u00c2\u00a0 That last post included the word “tight” twice with copious pictures of Paul working on the outbuilding, and yet, I let that golden opportunity pass.\u00c2\u00a0 Tight?\u00c2\u00a0 Golden? … aye, my heart’s just not in it.\u00c2\u00a0 So much for my reputation as the internet source for home improvement porn. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,67],"tags":[108,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3706,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}