{"id":654,"date":"2013-05-07T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/654-day-493-paper-napkins.html"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T23:00:20","slug":"day-493-paper-napkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/654-day-493-paper-napkins.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 493, Paper Napkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1023 --><!-- s9ymdb:1025 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/493-_MG_4479.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA change of vision from the very large to the very small led to this image.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI was actually playing around with a macro lens and 2x converter and trying to capture bugs in flight. After many attempts I still had not managed to get a critter right on the focal plane which was incredibly tight, perhaps around 1mm deep. In the end I gave up in frustration and photographed something I had a little more control over.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere is nothing really exciting about paper napkins but it did give me the opportunity to play with lighting. For this image I used a soft fill flash in the front and brighter flash at the rear right to provide a combination of strong side lighting with just a hint of rim light.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll try for those critters again soon enough.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 493, Paper Napkins&#8217; 1\/200s f\/11 ISO100 200mm Macro + Strobes <\/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; A change of vision from the very large to the very small led to this image. I was actually playing around with a macro lens and 2x converter and trying to capture bugs in flight. After many attempts I still had not managed to get a critter right on the focal &#8230; <a title=\"Day 493, Paper Napkins\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/654-day-493-paper-napkins.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 493, Paper Napkins\">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-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}