{"id":1739,"date":"2006-12-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/abeona-winter-formal\/"},"modified":"2006-12-22T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T21:00:00","slug":"abeona-winter-formal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/abeona-winter-formal\/","title":{"rendered":"Abeona Winter Formal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abeona held a Winter Formal today &#8212; complete with all the kids dressed up and me as the photographer.  I only took one picture of Will, who was my test kid during set-up.  Kate went next, while we were still working out some details.  Bottom line: I took some great photos that will go towards a school fundraiser (parents buy prints with a percentage going to the school).  It was a LOT of fun and there are several pictures I&#8217;m very proud of!  Paul was a super-wonderful assistant and held my gold reflector (another early Christmas gift!) to great effect.  We realized about half-way through the kids that bouncing the flash off the reflector was best.  (Neither of these photos show it!)<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYxHk7scnxI\/AAAAAAAAAIY\/CcsKhDf2Qzo\/s1600-h\/IMG_5327.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYxHk7scnxI\/AAAAAAAAAIY\/CcsKhDf2Qzo\/s400\/IMG_5327.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5011459185181499154\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I really wanted to reduce the aperature to soften the back &#8212; but for some reason, could NOT getting the setting right.  When I reduced the f\/stop, the photos flashed out everything&#8230; I have no idea why.  There wasn&#8217;t time to tinker with it and since that it one of the things I really need a test subject to work with, it&#8217;s a hard thing to figure out.  (At least for me!)  I&#8217;m going to have to con someone to be my guinea pig over the holidays and figure this out&#8230;<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYxHlLscnyI\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/vi51JqxTub0\/s1600-h\/IMG_5361.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RYxHlLscnyI\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/vi51JqxTub0\/s400\/IMG_5361.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5011459189476466466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abeona held a Winter Formal today &#8212; complete with all the kids dressed up and me as the photographer. I only took one picture of Will, who was my test kid during set-up. Kate went next, while we were still working out some details. Bottom line: I took some great photos that will go towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}