{"id":337,"date":"2014-04-26T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=337"},"modified":"2014-04-26T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T15:17:29","slug":"lilac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Lilac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery14\/Lilac1.jpg\" alt=\"Lilac1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the gifts of photography is that it helps me to see things in a new way.\u00a0 How many of us, when we look at a lilac bush, see the individual blossoms or the tiny buds waiting to burst into bloom?\u00a0 This image was taken with my 100mm macro lens with a canon D250 closeup filter attached.\u00a0 The biggest challenge in getting the shot was waiting for the wind to pause long enough to get a still shot.\u00a0 I have also been experimenting with bracketing my f-stops when shooting macro shots like this.\u00a0 I used to just do one soft at\u00a0 f 2.8 and one sharp at f 16.\u00a0 In this case I tried several settings in between.\u00a0 It turned out that I like this one shot at f 5.6 better than either the 2.8 which blurred everything but the small blossom at the center of focus, or the f 16 in which most of the blossoms were sharp. Thanks to Charles Needle for that tip.\u00a0 Bracket those exposures when shooting closeups!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the gifts of photography is that it helps me to see things in a new way.\u00a0 How many of us, when we look at a lilac bush, see the individual blossoms or the tiny buds waiting to burst into bloom?\u00a0 This image was taken with my 100mm macro lens with a canon D250&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=337\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lilac<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-macro","category-nature","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}