{"id":359,"date":"2018-06-10T16:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T16:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=359"},"modified":"2018-06-10T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T16:27:12","slug":"beautiful-sunny-beautiful-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful sunshine, beautiful flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was shining again this morning, and I had a few moments to myself again to take some photos of flowers in the garden.\u00a0 \u00a0Here are the results!<br \/>\n<em><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">For info:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI was in Aperture Priority mode (Av).\u00a0 Set to F11, with the white balance set to shade, as it was a bit cloudy.\u00a0 I was also using a reflector\/diffuser where appropriate.\u00a0 \u00a0I was also using a macro extension tube, just to be able to get closer images.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-357 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9834-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nThe above photo is a close up of a Lavendar flower, with a peachy rose in the distant creating the colourful hue behind it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-358 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9870-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m quite pleased with the rose above.\u00a0 The spiral leading into the centre makes me happy!\u00a0 \u00a0I used my mini reflector (as I only own a small one!) to reflect some light back onto the rose, as it was shaded by the shed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-360 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_9885-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nI rather love the vibrant colours of this rose, on it&#8217;s first day in bloom.\u00a0 I used the diffuser for this shot, as the direct sunlight created some rather harsh shadows.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_9841-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nAnd finally, a juicy Strawberry ready to eat.\u00a0 Again, this used the reflector to shine a bit of light back onto the fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was shining again this morning, and I had a few moments to myself again to take some photos of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}