{"id":933,"date":"2011-06-27T18:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2011-06-27T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:47:56","slug":"photo365-day-178-fields-of-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/photo365-day-178-fields-of-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo365 &#8211; Day 178 &#8211; Fields of red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a couple of red poppies appear in the garden today, and later in the day noticed Josh (ePHOTozine&#8217;s technical editor) had uploaded a camera review with pictures taken in a poppy field.\u00a0 I hadn&#8217;t realised we had any in the vicinity but this one was just up the road in Anston. So off I pooped this evening with the Pentax K-5 and a bag of lenses. My aim was to takes shots different to my normal one in focus blurred background poppy shots. I had the lens baby (failed), the ultra wide (failed), the macro (failed) and the Tamron 500mm mirror (result)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d hope to use the Tamron with the 2x flat field converter to get super compression but it just wasn&#8217;t giving me what I wanted, so I reverted back to the 500mm alone (gives 750mm equivalent on the K-5).<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s one of the shots. The mirror lens gives unusual Marmite (love or hate) out of focus highlights. In fact it puts a halo around any bright object too. So the stalks took on a new look. I love the scrambled effect it gives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/poppies_4501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-934\" title=\"poppies_450\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/poppies_4501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a couple of red poppies appear in the garden today, and later in the day noticed Josh (ePHOTozine&#8217;s technical editor) had uploaded a camera review with pictures taken in a poppy field.\u00a0 I hadn&#8217;t realised we had any in the vicinity but this one was just up the road in Anston. So off [&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":[1613,1970,1971,2019],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-365","tag-field","tag-poppies","tag-poppy","tag-red"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}