{"id":19745,"date":"2016-12-31T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=19745"},"modified":"2016-12-30T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:43:09","slug":"been-saving-this-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/12\/been-saving-this-abstract\/","title":{"rendered":"Been saving this abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And again, I&#8217;m not sure how well it fits into the specific definition of &#8216;abstract,&#8217; and I don&#8217;t care either.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/HoverflyWhite.jpg\" alt=\"hoverfly on white flower\" width=\"730\" height=\"886\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19749\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This came from the same outing <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/10\/make-mine-a-double\/\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned here<\/a>, and is a vertical crop from a slightly larger horizontal frame &#8211; I was very pleased with the detail from both the hoverfly and the petals themselves, and slotted it to use for the final abstract of the year. For a quick grab shot where I didn&#8217;t have time to mess with exposure compensation, the brightness of the white petals came out pretty well, with only a little overexposure blowing sections out into pure white &#8211; most of the details and shaping of the petals remains. It&#8217;s very easy to either <em>a)<\/em> have the white areas taking up so much of the frame that they dictate the exposure and go quite close to middle-grey tones, or <em>b)<\/em> overexpose the white so details are too lost. This one could have been a little lower in exposure, 1\/3 to 1\/2 a stop or so, but it still works, and you may not have noticed the bleached areas at all if I hadn&#8217;t mentioned them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, have a great new year! And just to thwart meaningless segmentations and time periods, have a great everyday too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And again, I&#8217;m not sure how well it fits into the specific definition of &#8216;abstract,&#8217; and I don&#8217;t care either. This came from the same outing mentioned here, and is a vertical crop from a slightly larger horizontal frame &#8211; I was very pleased with the detail from both the hoverfly and the petals themselves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,4,3],"tags":[1529,2959],"class_list":["post-19745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-hoverfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}