{"id":99,"date":"2008-03-09T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/2008\/03\/09\/self-portrait-1-march-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T04:00:17","slug":"self-portrait-1-march-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/self-portrait-1-march-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait #1, March 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/gallery\/2008_march_self_01.jpg\" title=\"Self-Portrait #1, March 2008\" alt=\"Self-Portrait #1, March 2008\" height=\"640\" width=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by David Hobby&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/strobist.blogspot.com\" title=\"A blog dedicated to teching about off-camera small flash lighting.\">Strobist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31454864@N00\/447819702\/\" title=\"David Hobby Strobist self-portrait at flickr\">self-portrait<\/a>, I decided to try a self-portrait lit from a flash bounced off a white card (read: a sheet of printer paper) on my laptop. I wanted it to be a scholarly portrait, so I found the right coat, put on a tie, waxed up my moustache, and ran back and forth while trying to look composed. It was less than an ideal way to take a self-portrait, and I am going to work out a better solution next time. I only had one flash available when I decided to do this, so I look forward to trying it again with a gridspot on the computer and a hair light to provide separation from the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Inspired by David Hobby&#8217;s Strobist self-portrait, I decided to try a self-portrait lit from a flash bounced off a white card (read: a sheet of printer paper) on my laptop. I wanted it to be a scholarly portrait, so I found the right coat, put on a tie, waxed up my moustache, and ran &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/self-portrait-1-march-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Self-Portrait #1, March 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}