{"id":2223,"date":"2011-01-06T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2011-01-06T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:37:53","slug":"photo365-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/photo365-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo365 &#8211; Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have photographed asparagus. I&#8217;ve never been keen on it as a  food, but I was in the supermarket last night looking at clinically  perfect peppers and saw bunches of asparagus and thought &#8211; kill two new  year resolutions with one stone &#8211; more photography and more cooking. The  peppers didn&#8217;t have the shape to fulfil my desire to replicate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephotozine.com\/groups\/photography-discussion-40\/photos\/pepper-1930---edward-weston-estate-714942\" target=\"blank\">Edward Weston Classic<\/a> and I&#8217;d seen asparagus photographed before in bunches. As I want to eat  healthier this year and these shoots have essential nutrients it all  made sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/asparagus_300px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-295\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" title=\"asparagus_300px\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/asparagus_300px.jpg\" alt=\"asparagus\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a>The trouble is today I had one hour after work to shoot the pic before cooking tea. So a tight squeeze but I got my shot.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled out some string from the garden and tied the bunch&#8230;it  actually took about 10 mins to get them in a good arrangement. It&#8217;s  surprising how hard it is to get 6 to 8 stalks looking &#8220;arranged&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I placed them upright in some soil, stuck some Hessian as a backdrop and  lit them with the studio flash from behind left. A small reflector  added fill in front right.<\/p>\n<p>It was taken with the Pentax K20D and a 100mm Macro. Converted to black &amp; white using Lightroom.<\/p>\n<p>And then I went on to cook Thai Stir Fry Asparagus. All in all a pleasing evening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have photographed asparagus. I&#8217;ve never been keen on it as a food, but I was in the supermarket last night looking at clinically perfect peppers and saw bunches of asparagus and thought &#8211; kill two new year resolutions with one stone &#8211; more photography and more cooking. The peppers didn&#8217;t have the shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[1346,1363,1710,2127],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-365","tag-asparagus","tag-backlit","tag-hessian","tag-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}