{"id":1085,"date":"2009-04-24T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:25:45","slug":"friday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/friday-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bleeding Hearts by Christopher Ward (v3ggi32u), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/2568773237\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3005\/2568773237_1654cd4b05.jpg?resize=483%2C500\" alt=\"Bleeding Hearts\" width=\"483\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Random spring picture from last year. I\u00ac\u2020need to take more this year!<\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder how someone could be a comedian, contemplate theology, and end up a passionate photographer. David duChemin has his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelatedimage.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/my-story\/\">story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I ran across some cool inexpensive lighting equipment today. After watching a NAPP video via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottkelby.com\/blog\/2009\/archives\/4405\">Kelby&#8217;s blog<\/a>, I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photobasics.net\/index.cfm\">photobasics.net<\/a>. This is a set of inexpensive gear aimed at non professionals. There is some neat looking stuff here.<\/p>\n<p>Added a new book to my wish list at Amazon. David Ziser&#8217;s book <span id=\"btAsinTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Captured-Light-Essential-Extraordinary-Photography\/dp\/0321646878\/ref=sr_1_1\">Captured by the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography<\/a>. I am not a wedding photographer, but I bet anyone that wants to create great portraits could benefit from this book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I don&#8217;t get to Moose Peterson&#8217;s blog every day, but when I do, I usually read through a bunch of older posts. Here is one from a couple of days ago where he talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moosenewsblog.com\/2009\/04\/niks-tonal-contrast\/\">Nik Color Effects filter plugin<\/a>. Very neat. The particular filter: tonal contrast. Unfortunately it is only available in the $299 Complete version. (see filter list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niksoftware.com\/colorefexpro\/usa\/entry.php?view=intro\/cep3_filters.shtml\">here<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above: Random spring picture from last year. I\u00ac\u2020need to take more this year! Ever wonder how someone could be a comedian, contemplate theology, and end up a passionate photographer. David duChemin has his story. I ran across some cool inexpensive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/friday-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-hv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}