{"id":2097,"date":"2011-10-31T23:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2097"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:13:08","slug":"haloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/haloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallowe&#8217;en"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well given the date I actually made an effort to get some &#39;spooky&#39; photos today. The gun-metal sky this morning certainly played its part in creating this shot of a crow.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/crow_3110111422.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A more straightforward shot, but of an equally gothic bird, is this one of a jackdaw.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/jackdaw_3110111544.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I also fired off a few frames in the churchyard (yes I really was planning all this!). Putting all the elements  together (with some heavy filtering), welcome to Hallowe&#39;en!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/halloween_3110111419.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of this post, before Shutterbug showed up last night I was taking more photos of the garden pond (newts and damselfly nymphs). Photographing down into water with flash is always something of a gamble. If the angle is too deep, the light simply reflects back; if the angle is too shallow or the flash reflects on the pond lining, the colour gets washed out. Just occasionally though, the potential problems enhance the shot. This newt was just far enough away to avoid the worst of the light reflection, and the distance and angle served to flatten (rather than extinguish) the background.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/newt_3010111331.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>With a slightly deeper angle, and away from the edge of the pond, I get something like this.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/newt_3010111327.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Deepen the angle again (but not as far as 180\u00b0), you get an even rich colour, and a more consistent focus. The autumnal leaf was a nice bonus.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/damselfly_nymph_3010111335.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: Hallowe&#39;en shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. Pond shots taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM and Canon 430EX flash unit. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,472,802,47,114],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crow","tag-damselfly-nymph","tag-halloween","tag-jackdaw","tag-newt","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}