{"id":834,"date":"2010-08-09T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/09\/decaying-beauty-and-lavender-rose"},"modified":"2018-05-13T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T11:14:20","slug":"decaying-beauty-and-lavender-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/09\/decaying-beauty-and-lavender-rose","title":{"rendered":"Decaying Beauty and Lavender Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been quite busy lately, fortunately not too busy to test the wonderful Canon EF 100\/2.8L USM Macro lens. We’ve had a lot of rain so the garden is not offering quite its usual abundance of flowers, but I’ve managed to get a few passable pictures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Decaying<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Decaying Beauty<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

and<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Lavender<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lavender Rose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Both are roses, of course, the first being well past its prime, with the petals all wilted and gone. It was taken in available light using just a tripod for support.<\/p>\n

The second is a fresh rose with lavender. I place both in a small vase, hung up a black cloth for the background, and used two speedlights for lighting. The first is to camera right, the second is to camera left, behind the flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been quite busy lately, fortunately not too busy to test the wonderful Canon EF 100\/2.8L USM Macro lens. We’ve had a lot of rain so the garden is not offering quite its usual abundance of flowers, but I’ve managed to get a few passable pictures: Decaying Beauty and Lavender Rose Both are roses, of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}