{"id":517,"date":"2012-12-24T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/517-366-days-of-2012-day-359-nativity.html"},"modified":"2012-12-24T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:59:00","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-359-nativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/517-366-days-of-2012-day-359-nativity.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 359 &#8211; Nativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:855 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/359-_MG_0132.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere is a story about the pieces in this nativity scene that I&#8217;d love to tell but I can&#8217;t because I just don&#8217;t know.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI do know that they come from Malawi and were a gift to or from a Jesuit priest which were then given to his niece. Perhaps someone else will find this post and tell the story.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe pieces are dark and beautiful and quite challenging to photograph as a set. I&#8217;m not yet happy with this result but at least it&#8217;s a start to try and capture the spirit of the pieces and the story they tell. Both back light and front light are from tea-lite candles, about eight of them while I used a small LED flashlight to paint in the manger from overhead and to add a little fill light to the faces. The resulting odd combination of colour temperatures looked very awkward so in post I make the image monochrome and tinted back in the base colour as illuminated by the tea-lites only.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 359 &#8211; Nativity&#8217;. 30s f\/11 ISO160 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; There is a story about the pieces in this nativity scene that I&#8217;d love to tell but I can&#8217;t because I just don&#8217;t know. I do know that they come from Malawi and were a gift to or from a Jesuit priest which were then given to his niece. Perhaps someone &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 359 &#8211; Nativity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/517-366-days-of-2012-day-359-nativity.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 359 &#8211; Nativity\">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-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}