{"id":1358,"date":"2009-07-08T04:01:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2010-07-24T15:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T20:30:52","slug":"are-the-tools-immaterial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"Are the tools immaterial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"QuoteText\">&#8220;As photographers we sell emotion not emulsion. The tools are immaterial, the resulting piece is all important.&#8221; <\/span>\u2014\u00a0<span class=\"QuoteSourceName\"><em>Jeff Adams<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In principle I agree \u2014 yet fine tools do make getting to the result a tad easier. Today I began a 15 day trial of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niksoftware.com\/silverefexpro\/usa\/entry.php\" target=\"_self\">Silver Efex Pro<\/a> for use with Lightroom. It is quite a fine tool; if you&#8217;re interested in processing digital color files to black and white effect. Its built-in presets for\u00a0tone-color, various filtration effects and simulation of (various types of) film\u00a0grain appear first rate. This image of Sophia at the Children&#8217;s Museum (last week) was processed to Acros 100 with slight Selenium Toning and subtle &#8216;rectangular&#8217; edge burn. Very quick and easy to compare effects. If you&#8217;re familiar with the Lightroom GUI (graphic user interface) you&#8217;ll find the Silver Efex GUI very intuitive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the end every craftsperson (and artist) appreciates fine tools; yet will find a way to express themselves with the tools at hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click image for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/l1004941-edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1363\" title=\"l1004941-edit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/l1004941-edit-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/l1004941-edit-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/l1004941-edit.jpg 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As photographers we sell emotion not emulsion. The tools are immaterial, the resulting piece is all important.&#8221; \u2014\u00a0Jeff Adams In principle I agree \u2014 yet fine tools do make getting to the result a tad easier. Today I began a 15 day trial of Silver Efex Pro for use with Lightroom. It is quite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,32,27,19,34,17,28,35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-events","category-family-and-friends","category-hand-made","category-people","category-photography","category-travel","category-portraits","category-self-expression","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}