{"id":2384,"date":"2013-09-27T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2013-09-28T14:57:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T02:57:05","slug":"monochrome-and-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/monochrome-and-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Monochrome and close."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2385\" style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2385 \" title=\"Monochrome ... and close.\" alt=\"Monochrome ... and close.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130924_133609-679x1024.jpg\" width=\"543\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130924_133609-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130924_133609-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130924_133609.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monochrome &#8230; and close.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A bit wet &#8230; thank goodness for weather sealing on the camera and lenses!! I thought I&#8217;d try to get close to this little flower &#8230; and then the weather changed! No longer dry and windless, but rain and the flower was moving all over the place. Just for fun I thought I&#8217;d try to freeze the action with some flash. A single speedlight placed camera left, really to keep it dry more than anything else! Not too bad. Not a lot of movement in the bloom.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the flower is white, and it&#8217;s foliage is grey\/green.  Not much contrast in the scene.  A bit of a twiddle in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/nikcollection\/products\/silver-efex-pro\/\" title=\"Silver Efex Pro\" target=\"_blank\">Nik&#8217;s Silver Efex Pro<\/a> helped change the contrasts and &#8220;sensitivity&#8221; to different colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit wet &#8230; thank goodness for weather sealing on the camera and lenses!! I thought I&#8217;d try to get close to this little flower &#8230; and then the weather changed! No longer dry and windless, but rain and the flower was moving all over the place. Just for fun I thought I&#8217;d try to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/monochrome-and-close\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monochrome and close.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,176,173,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}