{"id":3913,"date":"2018-01-22T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2018-01-22T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:20:20","slug":"self-portrait-with-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3913","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait With Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would not, in any way, describe myself as a portraitist.<\/p>\n<p>However, some times one needs to get out of one&#8217;s comfort zone. Thus, I have volunteered to make portraits at the Antrim Senior Center for Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I bought a lighting set (LED lights, stands, umbrellas, etc.) suitable for portraiture.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, with a 33 degree drizzle happening outside, I decided to get some portraiture practice. I set the lights and camera up in the basement and corralled the closest subject&#8230; ME!<\/p>\n<p>The last of these photos is modeled after a late nineteenth century ancestral portrait which hung in my in-law&#8217;s house. The stern look and the unusual pose always\u00a0intrigued me.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=553 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would not, in any way, describe myself as a portraitist. However, some times one needs to get out of one&#8217;s comfort zone. Thus, I have volunteered to make portraits at the Antrim Senior Center for Valentine&#8217;s Day. Last week, I bought a lighting set (LED lights, stands, umbrellas, etc.) suitable for portraiture. This afternoon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}