{"id":611,"date":"2011-02-08T22:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T05:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2011-02-08T22:13:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T05:13:33","slug":"shooting-a-rose-with-a-tshirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Shooting a Rose. With a Tshirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/235613645.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/235613645-593x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"235613645\" width=\"593\" height=\"442\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-612 [ftmt_id]\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/235613645-593x442.jpg 593w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/235613645-600x448.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/235613645-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/235613645-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/235613645.jpeg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, you just have to go for the black shirt. <\/p>\n<p>OK, so here&#8217;s the situation.  My buddy Paul wanted me to do some pictures of his beautiful bride&#8217;s ring.  We kept going back and forth about how we should best accomplish this, and all that kept coming out were picture ideas of her hand.  Try as I will, I always think that the hand pictures of the ring always look as either: <\/p>\n<p>A disembodied hand.  Think Thing from the Adams Family<br \/>\nA Debeers commercial.<br \/>\nA really focused shot on the hand itself and not the ring<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t help it.  Unless you are a hand model, and that is your thing, shooting your hand will just get you to incessantly look at all of the stuff going on in the hand.  I thought that would take away from the beauty of the ring, and the moment. <\/p>\n<p>I had them come to dinner, and asked them to bring 2 sets of flowers.  After Dinner, I pulled out a Micro-Nikkor 70-180mm lens, some stands and poles, and fashioned the setup you see above.  The flower is being held by a Reflector stand from Westcott.  I used a Toothpick to remove enough petals from the rose to embed the ring in it and came up with this: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aboutrc\/5417744230\/\" title=\"A Rose Engagement by webrc, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5057\/5417744230_c5af7b5579_z.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" alt=\"A Rose Engagement\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because I knew that we would be so tight on the flower, I wanted to get a background that wouldnt distract.  Black background.  I ran to the closet and got one of my black Tshirts.  Voila.  No distraction. A little bit of post processing in Photoshop (Nik Sharpener) and we were good to go.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes, you just have to go for the black shirt. OK, so here&#8217;s the situation. My buddy Paul&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shoots","7":"category-photography","8":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}