{"id":5173,"date":"2020-04-26T21:21:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T03:22:12","slug":"not-the-sharpest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/not-the-sharpest\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Sharpest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alanklughammer.com_.20200426-_AK52881.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alanklughammer.com_.20200426-_AK52881.jpg 683w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alanklughammer.com_.20200426-_AK52881-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a quest in photography to get the sharpest photograph. We spend a lot of money on the best lenses, we spend a lot of time getting the focus just right, we even use software sharpening&#8230; However sometimes it makes sense to go the other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this image, I have been exploring a bouquet of flowers I bought for just that purpose. Images like this are very hard to previsualize, as our eyes do not see the same way as a camera lens. I did take several versions of this image, with various levels of blur. Since it is such an abstract image, I did minimal post processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:31% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200426_103708-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200426_103708-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200426_103708-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200426_103708-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200426_103708-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200426_103708-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200426_103708-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">the bouquet in my self isolation living room. I bought this particular bouquet for the variety of flowers, and the variety of photos I could get from it. I have been using my 105 macro with a focus rail. I just used the light coming through my window, as I have a North facing window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">One issue was the fact I live on the 3rd floor of an older wood frame apartment building. The floor is a bit bouncy, especially at 2X magnification&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a quest in photography to get the sharpest photograph. We spend a lot of money on the best lenses, we spend a lot of time getting the focus just right, we even use software sharpening&#8230; However sometimes it makes sense to go the other way. For this image, I have been exploring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17,7,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-easy","category-photography","category-studio","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","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=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}