{"id":2511,"date":"2011-11-04T19:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2011-11-04T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:13:34","slug":"photo365-day-308-i-found-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/photo365-day-308-i-found-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo365 &#8211; Day 308 &#8211; I found gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a fellow ePHOTOzine blogger, Stewart (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephotozine.com\/user\/bfgstew-48096\/blog\" target=\"blank\">bfgstew<\/a>) I decide to get my British made<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrobellows.com\/bpm_bellows.php\" target=\"blank\"> BPM bellows<\/a> out and connect them to my Olympus Pen EP2 via a T2 \/micro 4 thirds adaptor , and mounted a Pentax 50mm f\/1.4 on the front. I then poked the contraption at some bonfire toffee, but didn&#8217;t like the results enough to want to post here, so I went the whole hog in copying Stewart and pointed the set up at a camera lens. He shot a screw, while I found gold&#8230;the rear electrical contacts of the Pen lens.<\/p>\n<p>I illuminated the scene with a Manfrotto Pocket LED light that I currently have to review.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite pleased with the result, especially the colourful curve of the rear element complete with colour fringing. I increased saturation in Lightroom to enhance these colours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gold_contacts_450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1469\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gold_contacts_450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a fellow ePHOTOzine blogger, Stewart (bfgstew) I decide to get my British made BPM bellows out and connect them to my Olympus Pen EP2 via a T2 \/micro 4 thirds adaptor , and mounted a Pentax 50mm f\/1.4 on the front. I then poked the contraption at some bonfire toffee, but didn&#8217;t like [&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":[1422,1521,1677,1841],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-365","tag-bpm-bellows","tag-contacts","tag-gold","tag-macro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","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=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}