{"id":5263,"date":"2009-08-31T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/31\/pimple-removal\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:17:45","slug":"pimple-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/31\/pimple-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimple removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ling always complains that she doesn\u2019t look so good when I take pictures of her and Hannah. She\u2019d look at her oily skin, eye bags, wrinkles, unflattering lighting, pimples, acne, black spots; then cringe and grumble that I didn\u2019t take her \u2018good\u2019 side.<\/p>\n<p>Truth to tell, it\u2019s possible to remove a lot of those, er, skin \u2018features\u2019. You could always open the aperture wide-open, but sometimes photographic conditions make that unwise as there\u2019re always trade-offs. The smarter way is to do photographic post-processing. E.g. consider the two pictures below: the before, and after post-processing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_2446-afternoon-before\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2009babyDSC_2446afternoonbefore1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_2446-afternoon-before\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog2009babyDSC_2446afternoonafter1\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2009babyDSC_2446afternoonafter11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2009babyDSC_2446afternoonafter1\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you see it, now you don\u2019t! And no, I didn\u2019t correct everything\u2026 it would have taken too much time.<\/p>\n<p>And Ling is grumbling again now while I write this post \u2013 she\u2019s asking why I didn\u2019t remove her crows\u2019 feet LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ling always complains that she doesn\u2019t look so good when I take pictures of her and Hannah. She\u2019d look at her oily skin, eye bags, wrinkles, unflattering lighting, pimples, acne, black spots; then cringe and grumble that I didn\u2019t take<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/31\/pimple-removal\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Pimple removal<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","category-photography-cameras","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}