{"id":919,"date":"2012-04-09T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2012-04-09T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:00:36","slug":"only-a-flash-and-a-macro-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/919-only-a-flash-and-a-macro-lens.html","title":{"rendered":"Only a flash and a macro lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last day of Easter turned into a rainy, gray day here in Dr\u00f8bak. So in-between cleaning and doing the laundry I found the time to play around with a flash and a macro lens. I did not have that many motives, but two flowers, a cat and a bag of fruits and nuts held my interest for a while. After some fast manipulations of sliders in Adobe Lightroom, I got the following results.<\/p>\n

\"Light<\/a>

Light from behind<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Orchid<\/a>

Orchid in black and white<\/p><\/div>\n

\"See-thru<\/a>

See-thru orchid<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Curious<\/a>

Curious cat (or should I say nosy)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cat<\/a>

Cat eye - in colours<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fruit<\/a>

Fruit and nuts<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last day of Easter turned into a rainy, gray day here in Dr\u00f8bak. So in-between cleaning and doing the laundry I found the time to play around with a flash and a macro lens. I did not have that many motives, but two flowers, a cat and a bag of fruits and nuts held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,511,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-photography","7":"tag-macro","8":"tag-photography","9":"tag-pictures","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xqPf-eP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":446,"url":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/446-grate-macro-images.html","url_meta":{"origin":919,"position":0},"title":"Grater macro images","author":"leirdal","date":"2011-02-21","format":false,"excerpt":"During the weekend I was playing around with cameras, flash-lights, reflectors and a lot of other things. 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