{"id":369,"date":"2008-10-01T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2008-10-01T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T17:02:57","slug":"photography-blogs-and-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Photography, blogs and procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m <em>supposed<\/em> to be writing the next chapter of my great American romance novel right now&#8230; but that&#8217;s a bit intimidating &#8212; you know, trying to bend my artistic ego into narrative poetry &#8212; so instead, I&#8217;m writing a blog entry! Procrastination comes in many forms.<\/p>\n<p>I took a lot of photos last night of the children. As dark fell, Damian was screaming and laughing and I had to switch to flash to catch the moment. I love comparing different factors that compose a great photo.<\/p>\n<p>No one can deny the beauty of the lighting in the first photo.  The photogenic baby just makes the picture that much more beautiful:<\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">Damian in the back garden.<br \/>\n30 September 2008<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2008\/10\/Damian_30Sept2008_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, catching the &#8220;moment&#8221; &#8212; emotion revealed on a person&#8217;s face, an action shot, etc &#8212; can definitely make up for inferior lighting:<\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">Damian in the back garden.<br \/>\n30 September 2008<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2008\/10\/Damian_30Sept2008_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used the Photoshop burn tool on both of the above pictures to make the subject pop. \u00c2\u00a0Having a dark circle around the subject of the photo acts like the perfect frame for the action.<\/p>\n<p>Photography is fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m supposed to be writing the next chapter of my great American romance novel right now&#8230; but that&#8217;s a bit intimidating &#8212; you know, trying to bend my artistic ego into narrative poetry &#8212; so instead, I&#8217;m writing a blog entry! Procrastination comes in many forms. I took a lot of photos last night of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}