{"id":343,"date":"2012-07-07T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/343-366-days-of-2012-day-189-recursion.html"},"modified":"2012-07-09T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:27:19","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-189-recursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/343-366-days-of-2012-day-189-recursion.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 189 &#8211; Recursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:658 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/189_MG_2529.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisual recursion is something some of us have experienced by pointing a video camera at its own monitor. That seemingly infinite diminishing set of images within images.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI never expected the same thing when I set about to photograph the aperture of my lens using the lens itself. I initially set up with the lens focused on its own nodal point, the aperture blades. It was a compromise between depth of field and a pleasing visual position for the blades to be in. (I have never heard of anyone ever setting the aperture for this reason!). On taking a few test images I noticed the reflection of the camera body off the camera&#8217;s reflective CMOS sensor. I thought COOL!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGetting the camera body, as reflected off the CMOS sensor, in focus simply came down to trial and error as I simply could not get enough light to preview manual focus.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the end result, &#8216;Recursion&#8217;, I hope you like it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 189 &#8211; Recursion&#8217;. 20s f\/6.3 ISO-320 100mm macro\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual recursion is something some of us have experienced by pointing a video camera at its own monitor. That seemingly infinite diminishing set of images within images. I never expected the same thing when I set about to photograph the aperture of my lens using the lens itself. I initially set up with the lens &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 189 &#8211; Recursion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/343-366-days-of-2012-day-189-recursion.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 189 &#8211; Recursion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}