{"id":457,"date":"2011-09-13T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-09-13T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:14:08","slug":"always-be-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/always-be-aware\/","title":{"rendered":"Always be Aware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boy scout motto is always be prepared. For photographers, I would modify it to read, &#8220;Always be Aware&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was helping a friend do some photography recently. After the shoot, she started to make lunch when I noticed some lilies in a vase. Sunlight was coming from a nearby window through some blinds, giving some really interesting shadows and reflections. (With her permission) I cut one of the lilies to balance the foreground and started exploring with my macro lens. I couldn&#8217;t put my tripod on her dining room table (If I wanted to keep her as a friend) so I had to hand hold the camera. This forced me to use the lens wide open with a shallow depth of field. In this case it helped subdue the lily in the background. I also had to shoot a low angle so that I did not get her shoe rack in the background.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty simple shot, but if I would not have been paying attention, I would never have seen it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/6022-3\/12092011-8629.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=d9121547a2c7aad62f02e5ef0227ec3a\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PS. The lunch was very good, and the wine even better&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boy scout motto is always be prepared. For photographers, I would modify it to read, &#8220;Always be Aware&#8221; I was helping a friend do some photography recently. After the shoot, she started to make lunch when I noticed some lilies in a vase. Sunlight was coming from a nearby window through some blinds, giving [&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-457","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\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}