{"id":3311,"date":"2014-10-24T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:55:38","slug":"red-delicious-black-white-behind-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2014\/10\/24\/red-delicious-black-white-behind-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Delicious in Black and White (Behind-the-scenes)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

This was an attempt at an Edward Weston-style black and white shot (like his bell peppers<\/a>). It took me awhile to get it right and the hardest part was figuring out why I had such a big highlight\/hotspot. That actually required a bit of research on my part.<\/p>\n

It’s all very much part of the physics of light — the angle of incidence, the angle of reflection and the “family of angles.” Now the book<\/a> that I was getting this information from said that it was tricky on a flat or curved surface to get rid of a direct reflection (basically, a mirror image of the light that is hitting the object). But on a sphere it would be impossible to get rid of…and my apple was pretty darn spherical. That meant I was stuck with the direct reflection and at best I could crop it out, but there was no getting rid of it. <\/p>\n

I also had a hard time getting a nice rim light around the edges of the apple until I remembered the trick I did with the silver pitcher<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"BTS-Apple\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So here is the behind-the-scenes shot. The tiny little softbox is pointed straight out because I was hoping that by feathering the light I would be able to lessen that direct reflection and just get enough of a kiss of light to provide some definition for the top of the apple. Just ignore my poor broken table. : ( <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was an attempt at an Edward Weston-style black and white shot (like his bell peppers). It took me awhile to get it right and the hardest part was figuring out why I had such a big highlight\/hotspot. That actually required a bit of research on my part. It’s all very much part of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,29,124,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bts","category-flash","category-light","category-still-life-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/apple-.jpg?fit=4961%2C3721&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-Rp","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}