{"id":917,"date":"2009-03-27T07:24:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2009-03-27T07:24:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:24:31","slug":"what-am-i-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/what-am-i-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"What am I Reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got it a couple of weeks ago now. I have been working my way through &#8220;<span id=\"btAsinTitle\">The Photographer&#8217;s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Photographers-Eye-Composition-Design-Digital\/dp\/0240809343\/ref=pd_cp_b_1\">Amazon<\/a>) There are many things about composition that I just didn&#8217;t think about before. This is a great wealth of information. Not a gripping thriller, but tons of information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Digital Photography Outdoors by James Martin. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Digital-Photography-Outdoors-Adventure-Photographers\/dp\/1594850879\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a>) I found this in the library, and it is pretty good. There are lots of good landscape pictures in here that illustrate the concepts he is presenting. I haven&#8217;t got to it yet, but there is a section on &#8220;workflow&#8221; that presents some photoshop techniques for landscape shooters. It reads well.<\/p>\n<p>The Hot Shoe Diaries by Joe McNally. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hot-Shoe-Diaries-Flashes-Voices\/dp\/0321580141\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a>) I finally got my copy from Amazon. Too many books, too little time. I have just flipped through it, reading a couple of pages, but it is clasic Joe. Very funny, a little rambling, telling it like it is with no pretense and a handful of photog words that send me scrambling to Google.<\/p>\n<p>Do I read the books, take pictures, or edit my recent pictures? Oh right, none of the three. Back to making a paycheck&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got it a couple of weeks ago now. I have been working my way through &#8220;The Photographer&#8217;s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos&#8221; (Amazon) There are many things about composition that I just didn&#8217;t think about before. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/what-am-i-reading\/\">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":[4,156],"tags":[10],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-eN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}