{"id":212,"date":"2011-04-10T13:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=212"},"modified":"2011-04-10T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T20:46:33","slug":"some-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/some-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a post on the difference between &#8220;Art&#8221; and &#8220;journalism&#8221; but I don&#8217;t think these are the correct terms to use. I think what I really want to talk about is the importance (to me) of backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>I was trained in B&amp;W fine art. Our instructor taught us not only to look at the subject, but at the whole image. In other words, pay attention to the background. I think it was the jazz musician B.B.King who said the most important part of music was the space between the notes. Photography is very much the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"g2image_centered\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/3492-3\/07032011-6496.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=8da27eeb1c737c126c1f5fc983b6cb55\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This image is all about the background. The subject, a leaf of a Skunk Cabbage is relatively plain. The real interest is the reflections in the water at the top of the image, and the texture of the leaves at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered\" title=\"07102010-5125\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/2965-3\/07102010-5125.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=8da27eeb1c737c126c1f5fc983b6cb55\" alt=\"07102010-5125\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image is all background. The &#8220;subject&#8221; is the entire image.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered\" title=\"Shot for Album art for Tino\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/4720-3\/Tino-3.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=131834ba0df3a501e99bc68ddc9af36e\" alt=\"Tino-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image is about negative space. Is the subject the shadowed people? The blurry brick background emphasizes the urban feel to the photo.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, pay attention, not only to what you are taking a picture of, but what you are not taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a post on the difference between &#8220;Art&#8221; and &#8220;journalism&#8221; but I don&#8217;t think these are the correct terms to use. I think what I really want to talk about is the importance (to me) of backgrounds. I was trained in B&amp;W fine art. Our instructor taught us not only to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","category-photography","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}