{"id":481,"date":"2008-01-27T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/27\/photography\/"},"modified":"2008-01-27T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T18:21:13","slug":"photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/27\/photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/77254\/Help-me-take-pictures-of-women-in-their-underwear#1147924\">awesome comment<\/a> on Ask MetaFilter gives some incredibly well-worded advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nThe camera matters not a whit.\nThe lens matters quite a bit.\nThe flash matters most in the kit&#8230;\n&#8230;if you expect your models to be well-lit.<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, I have a good camera and a pretty good lens, but just the on-camera flash. I&#8217;ve had some pretty good luck with it, mostly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sublime-light.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/13\/diy-use-off-camera-lighting-if-you-dont-own-a-flash\/\">improvised solutions<\/a> (that&#8217;s almost identical to mine: similar camera, exact same gold foil) to bounce light off the ceiling \/ walls. It looks dorky, sure, but it works.<\/p>\n<p>But you should <a href=\"http:\/\/planetneil.com\/tangents\/flash-photography-techniques\/3-dragging-the-shutter\/\">check this out<\/a>. Not only is this guy an amazing photographer, but he gives a lot of great tutorials. I think my future photo-taking is going to work on finding skillful ways to use the flash for lighting. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s lots more that can be done with high-end flashes and radio slaves, but I want to start by mastering the built-in flash.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An awesome comment on Ask MetaFilter gives some incredibly well-worded advice: The camera matters not a whit. The lens matters quite a bit. The flash matters most in the kit&#8230; &#8230;if you expect your models to be well-lit. Of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/27\/photography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-living","category-ocd","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}