{"id":25,"date":"2008-09-11T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/2008\/09\/in-black-and-white\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:13:19","slug":"in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/2008\/09\/in-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"In black and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kerischneider\/2848692333\/\" title=\"close_up by KeriFlur, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3116\/2848692333_52a34c1af0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"close_up\" \/><\/a>\n\n2018.5.16 updated image: https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kerischneider\/2849523532\n\n-->While I\u2019m hoping to find a <a title=\"Canon EOS 50D\" href=\"http:\/\/web.canon.jp\/imaging\/eosd\/eos50d\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Canon EOS 50D<\/a> under the Christmas tree, I\u2019m currently making use of my Digital Elph and my Rebel 2000 35mm cameras as best I can.\u00a0 I started my black and white film photography course last night and, even though I\u2019ve owned the camera for years, I learned for the first time how to set the f-stop and aperture.\u00a0 Yes, all these years I\u2019ve been pointing and shooting and not knowing what was actually going on.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to think I\u2019ve been quite successful this way, but I\u2019m sure my photography skills will improve dramatically once I know what I\u2019m doing.\u00a0 Or at least I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Today it\u2019s been cloudy and rainy and not good for outdoor photography, so my homework assignment will have to wait for another day.\u00a0 Instead I\u2019ve been playing with the settings on my point-and-shoot Elph.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have to work hard to find a willing subject for my experimenting.\u00a0 Storm was more than happy to blink, flirt, stretch and roll around like a supermodel on the beach in Cannes.\u00a0 Well, not EXACTLY like that, but close.\u00a0 Cooper was a less willing participant; most of the pics I took of him were while he was asleep.\u00a0 He tends to think the camera contains something tasty to lick, so that was just as well.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the shots came out blurry, a common consequence of photographing furries, but I did get a few good black and whites.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also learned that slightly overexposing certain color shots gives a nice effect.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to play more with this.\u00a0 In the meantime, I\u2019ll be hitting the books to get my reading assignment done, and hitting National Camera for all the film printing supplies I\u2019ll need for class.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I\u2019m hoping to find a Canon EOS 50D under the Christmas tree, I\u2019m currently making use of my Digital Elph and my Rebel 2000 35mm cameras as best I can.\u00a0 I started my black and white film photography course last night and, even though I\u2019ve owned the camera for years, I learned for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[191,8,192,462,31],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}