{"id":34957,"date":"2023-07-22T23:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T03:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=34957"},"modified":"2023-07-22T23:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T03:29:26","slug":"thats-a-little-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/07\/thats-a-little-better\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s a little better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SoftboxTest6a.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile green treefrog Dryophytes cinereus in closeup showing softbox reflection\" width=\"750\" height=\"883\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34958\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Switched out the &#8216;clear&#8217; diffuser for the white one on the new softbox, and the difference is noticeable &#8211; what we&#8217;re looking at here is the round light reflecting from the frog&#8217;s eye. Still not perfectly even, but probably the best I can hope for with this design (<em>yes<\/em>, I&#8217;ve actually considered a backwards-facing flash head into a parabola, but the ability to reach out over the subject is also important, so such a thing would be awkward.) Anyway, I&#8217;m going with this for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>This green treefrog (<em>Dryophytes cinereus<\/em>,) by the way, is half the size of the one previously, perhaps as big as the top joint of your thumb &#8211; I had to crop to nearly full-resolution to show the softbox reflection in detail, so most of the time it will go entirely unnoticed. The size of the frog is a little more evident when compared to the thorns of the rose bush it was perched so action-readily upon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SoftboxTest6.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile green treefrog Dryophytes cinereus perched on rose bush\" width=\"750\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34959\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switched out the &#8216;clear&#8217; diffuser for the white one on the new softbox, and the difference is noticeable &#8211; what we&#8217;re looking at here is the round light reflecting from the frog&#8217;s eye. Still not perfectly even, but probably the best I can hope for with this design (yes, I&#8217;ve actually considered a backwards-facing flash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1776,6854,2505,4320,1670],"class_list":["post-34957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-diffuser","tag-dryophytes-cinereus","tag-green-treefrog","tag-macro-softbox","tag-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34957","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=34957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}