{"id":4299,"date":"2019-02-24T12:59:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2019-02-24T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:59:56","slug":"old-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4299","title":{"rendered":"Old Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have a basket containing artifacts brought back from Hawaii in the late 1800&#8217;s by some of Joan&#8217;s ancestors who were missionaries there. Among the contents of the basket are a number of large (4-6 inch) shells. A few of these made good subjects on a cold gray February afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[scrollGallery id=620 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beware&#8230; photography talk head! I made these photographs using a single light source (at camera left) and a reflector (either a piece of white cardboard or a piece of cardboard covered with wrinkled aluminum foil&#8230; nothing fancy) to fill the shadows. The background was a piece of black seamless. However, in the end, I replaced the background with uniform black in PhotoShop. It is hard to keep light from spilling on to the background with a small tabletop &#8220;studio&#8221;. Thus the original background was various shades of gray and speckled with dust. Not the look I wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a basket containing artifacts brought back from Hawaii in the late 1800&#8217;s by some of Joan&#8217;s ancestors who were missionaries there. Among the contents of the basket are a number of large (4-6 inch) shells. A few of these made good subjects on a cold gray February afternoon. Beware&#8230; photography talk head! I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-still-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","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=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}