{"id":3590,"date":"2019-11-29T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2019-11-29T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:35:58","slug":"this-mornings-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"this morning&#8217;s fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>messing about<\/p>\n<p>\nThis morning I was reading an essay by Beth E. Wilson (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.newpaltz.edu\/news\/2005\/05\/the-material-image-surface-and-substance-in-photography-2\/\"> The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography<\/a>) that introduced a 2005 exhibition at SUNY New Paltz. It will take a few more readings to wrap my mind around its significance for my own photographic enterprises, but it did provoke me to try messing a bit with an image from more than a year ago, one which never quite reached its potential in the first version I uploaded to Flickr:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/49000475088\/in\/photolist-2aUfKic-2aUfnLV-2aUiE4t-2dUXV23-2hE1dET-2bbWcP3-29wq47W-2hE1f6o-2hSu3cK-2hE1gAs-Q9YL3J-Q9YEKj-2bbTkkw-2cdrhz1-NwLCqM-2aUe3n6-2aUeyea-Qa2cCs-29wpWTo-2ci28Nk-2cdr4C9-2cdr8jh-2aUh274-2bbTwPJ-Qa2k6U-2aUejDz-29wpbqq-2bbTam3-2bbU2sL-NwLwt6-2cdqRTs-2bbTWys-2cdrdjC-2cdrw9W-2cdqC3b-29woB3y-2ci1YSK-NwKLFX-2aUdpdM-2chYh6i-2cdsUj5-Q9Xynw-NwNy5Z-2bbSyhq-Q9XGkq-NwKNcx-2aUdjJg-NwKEYK-29wosao-2bbSYZm\" title=\"20x1828crop2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49000475088_101fdd2dc4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" alt=\"20x1828crop2\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had the feeling there was something more to be discovered, and it occurred to me that I might bring out the figures by rotating and then warping the perspective with a GIMP tool. Here&#8217;s what resulted:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/49141696177\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"20x1828warped\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49141696177_0e99675f66_z.jpg\" width=\"376\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20x1828warped\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nOne may wonder if such messing about is completely legit, and further wonder what I could do if I really knew about the possibilities and practicalities of tools like GIMP and Photoshop. I&#8217;m not sure what we&#8217;re looking at here, but there&#8217;s something mystically goose-like about the figure on the right. The figure on the left seems to be executing a 3-D dance move. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>messing about This morning I was reading an essay by Beth E. Wilson ( The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography) that introduced a 2005 exhibition at SUNY New Paltz. It will take a few more readings to wrap my mind around its significance for my own photographic enterprises, but it did provoke me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}