{"id":2476,"date":"2011-09-30T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2011-09-30T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T19:45:39","slug":"photo365-day-273-the-lemons-last-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/photo365-day-273-the-lemons-last-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo365 &#8211; Day 273 &#8211; The lemon&#8217;s last moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a tricky one and I don&#8217;t think I pulled it off&#8230;but that&#8217;s for you to decide.<\/p>\n<p>I was drinking a can of lemonade&#8230;the type you get abroad that has a really refreshing taste as it&#8217;s packed with real lemons (well 16%)<br \/>\nI spotted them in Sainsburys and it&#8217;s always one of the things I enjoy drinking while abroad. Always tastes so much better than our crappy Tango etc. I digress. I was drinking today and thought about the death of the lemon to sacrifice itself for this incredible flavour drink. So I decided to try and recreate a sinister last few minutes of the lemon&#8217;s life. No the drink didn&#8217;t have drugs in it! <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Wink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ephotozine.com\/images\/emoticons\/wink.gif\" alt=\"Wink\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I set up the simple arrangement and lit it with a torch. I made the string look grubby by rubbing it in soil and then smearing plant leafs on to try and colour and reduce its bright white.<\/p>\n<p>The initial shots were dark and very sinister, but the can didn&#8217;t show up well enough and I also wanted it to have a product shot feel. So this is what I ended up with.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lemon_450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1333\" title=\"lemon_450\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lemon_450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lemon_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1334\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" title=\"lemon_2\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lemon_2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>And here&#8217;s a different attempt using shallow depth of field to blur the can, and a slow speed to cause a slight swinging movement. I soon scrapped that idea and went for horizontal format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a tricky one and I don&#8217;t think I pulled it off&#8230;but that&#8217;s for you to decide. I was drinking a can of lemonade&#8230;the type you get abroad that has a really refreshing taste as it&#8217;s packed with real lemons (well 16%) I spotted them in Sainsburys and it&#8217;s always one of the things [&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":[1453,1789,1791],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-365","tag-can","tag-lemon","tag-lemonade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","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=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}